sex, blood, death, drugs, bad messages, violence, and then back to sex, blood, drugs, ect. Enough said. Oh and pretty visual and distrubing, especually for my girlfriends and I, i wouldn't let anyone under 15 even dream of seeing it. I wish i hadn't
Sorority Row
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Common Sense says
Satirical shadings can't save sorority slasher schlock.
Themes in this movie include: friendship, peer pressure, revenge
updated 09.14.09
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 16–18
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What Parents Need to Know
This review of Sorority Row was written by Charles Cassady Jr.
Parents need to know that this college-set slasher bloodbath is full of gory deaths, mainly impalements. Sexual and erotic elements are graphic and lurid, beginning with a drugged-up "date rape" situation and continuing with casual references to sex as a tool for revenge, status, exploitation, and even commerce (trading sex for pills). Drinking is frequent (one victim is killed with a shattering liquor bottle), and college-level "education" is depicted as one alcohol, sex, and drug-saturated party after another. Profanity is the movie's least raw element, but you can still expect plenty of uses of "f--k," "s--t," and more.
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- Families can talk about the appeal of horror movies like this. What's the allure of watching young people die in such gory fashion? Many of the victims here are quite despicable -- does that make the material more "entertaining" than "splatter" movies in which relatively innocent people are terrorized?
- Why do you think movies set in college focus almost exclusively on partying, having sex, being stalked, and plotting revenge? Why is that? Parents, ask your teens what they expect of college.
- Some of the movie's grim humor concerns the callous attitudes and cruelties of the cliquish Theta Pi girls. Does the movie send an anti-sorority message? Is the Greek system really like this?
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What’s the Story?
In a setup that echoes I Know What You Did Last Summer (and makes that horror cheese look masterful by comparison), a group of seniors in the Theta Pi sorority pulls a prank on an unfaithful boyfriend during a drunken party, making him think that his lover, Megan (Audrina Patridge), has fatally overdosed during sex. But the stunt goes sickeningly wrong when Megan gets killed for real with a tire iron. The women who were in on the prank are pressured by their haughty, conniving ringleader, Jessica (Leah Pipes), to dispose of the body and keep what happened a secret. Eight months later, at graduation, the guilty girls start receiving ominous phone messages and images, and a figure in a hooded graduation robe starts stalking and killing them, wielding a tire iron tricked-out with blades and sharp points. Is a vengeful Megan back from the dead?
Is It Any Good?
A remake of the obscure 1983 horror film House on Sorority Row, SORORITY ROW stands out mainly for the cynicism involved -- and not just that of filmmakers who are commercially peddling unoriginal gore-horror leftovers and party-hearty school imagery to impressionable young moviegoers. The movie's campus-bound characters are particularly nasty and practically deserve to be slain (the murderer basically says so at the end), and what little entertainment value to be found here lies in the film's satirical touches -- tongue-in-cheek dialogue (especially from Jessica) that emphasizes what awful people these are and actresses willing to take their bitchy sorority personas way over the top.
Still, the bulk of the movie is just cruel sadism and violent death, not comedy, and it seems to take forever to get to the uninteresting revelation of the slasher's true identity. The usual clichés of violent attacks and characters wandering in darkened basements aren't made any easier by wobbly, dim, hand-held camerawork -- it's as though the onscreen binge-drunkenness spilled over onto the cinematography crew.
Movie Details
Studio: Summit Entertainment, Director: Stewart Hendler
Run time: 101 minutes
Theatrical release: 9/14/2009, DVD release: 2/23/2010
MPAA Rating: R for strong bloody violence, language, some sexuality/nudity and partying
Run time: 101 minutes
Theatrical release: 9/14/2009, DVD release: 2/23/2010
MPAA Rating: R for strong bloody violence, language, some sexuality/nudity and partying
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I rate this title off for age 15 and give it
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- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
- Drinking, smoking, or drug use
- Negative role models
You're kidding me right?
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I rate this title off for age 15 and give it
- My concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
- Drinking, smoking, or drug use
- Negative role models
You're kidding me right?
sex, blood, death, drugs, bad messages, violence, and then back to sex, blood, drugs, ect. Enough said. Oh and pretty visual and distrubing, especually for my girlfriends and I, i wouldn't let anyone under 15 even dream of seeing it.
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I rate this title iffy for age 15 and give it
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- Inappropriate sexual content
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Just bad...
I didn't like it. Started off okay, but didn't pick up at all. It wasn't scary & the whole story was just messed up. Bad messages throughout and lame storyline. I guess it's worth watching once if you're into slasher films, but you will most likely be disappointed if you're over 18!
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I rate this title iffy for age 15 and give it
- My concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
- Drinking, smoking, or drug use
- Negative role models
just barley okay on the low end of fine
not as bad as it sounds no good role modles but some what orignal which is odd since its a remake a very sexy movie if you like this crp id see it.
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I rate this title on for age 12 and give it
This movie is really good. It contains the BEST DEATH SCENE EVER!!! Seriously. I would watch this movie again JUST for that death scene. Hint to the scene: Liquor bottle. (;
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| 100% | of parents say there's too much drinking, drugs, or smoking |
| 100% | of parents say the sexual behavior isn't age appropriate |
| 100% | of parents don't think the messages are positive |
| 50% | of parents don't feel there are good role models |
| 50% | of parents say it has language their kids can't use |
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