The Haunting of Sorority Row (2007) (TV)

User Rating:

4.9/10   

Director:

Bert Kish

Writers:

Jed Seidel (writer)
Michael Vickerman (writer)

Release Date:

6 October 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Samantha Willows, a college freshman, looks to pledge a sorority. Unbeknownst to Sam, it is haunted by a former pledge taking revenge on those who wronged her.

Plot Keywords:

Sorority | Pledging

Cast

Leighton Meester	...	Samantha Willows
Kailin See	...	Jane
Lisa Marie Caruk	...	Leslie
Agam Darshi	...	Rachel
Meghan Ory	...	Amanda
Adrian Petriw	...	Oliver (as Adrian Roman Petriw)
Jessica Huras	...	Nikki Evans
Lara Gilchrist	...	Lacey
Carlo Marks	...	Spencer
Elyse Levesque	...	Whitney
David Flemming	...	Collin (as David Patrick Flemming)
Patrick Keating	...	Plumber

Also Known As:

Hell House (Canada: English title) (working title)
The Deadly Pledge (UK)

Runtime:

USA:90 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:M

Filming Locations:

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Highwire Pictures

Movie Connections:

References I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

The dead also rises

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

***SPOILERS*** Interesting but very predictable movie about revenge from beyond the grave that creates havoc in this super secret and snobbish collage sorority house. It turns out that one of the member of the sorority-Jenna Thorn-had to spend the night locked in a coffin in order to qualify to become a full member. This lead Jeanna to die of acute shock when the very claustrophobic young girl ended up dying of fright! Or did she?

Pretty Samantha Willows, Leighton Meester, is all over the place in trying to find out who's murdering her sorority sisters with the realization that they somehow had it coming. This is when Samantha and her collage roommate Jane,Kailin See, find out that those, the sisters in the sorority, are being knocked off because they had something to do with Jenna's disappearance a years earlier.

The four members of the sorority who were involved in Jenna being entombed suspect that it's her boyfriend Colin, David Flemming, who's the person trying to hunt them down and do them in for what they did to his fiancée and soon to be wife Jenna. Colin for his part has just one scene in the movie, more or less to introduce himself to the audience, and is never seen or heard from again!

Samantha for her part gets to the bottom of this mystery with the help of her nebbish boyfriend Oliver, Adrian Petriw, who's a strong believer in the supernatural and life after death. But in uncovering just who the killer is and the reason for his, or her, actions doesn't help the four sorority members, those responsible for Jenna's disappearance. The four young ladies ended up being iced and in once case boiled, like a lobster, and put away in the hospital morgue until farther notice.

The movie did start off promising enough but quickly fell apart with it practically telegraphing, in a number of very obvious clues, to the audience who the killer is. You had to sit through almost 90 minutes of mindless nonsense until you were hit with the films "surprise ending" which only seemed to have surprised Samantha who should have seen it coming from the very beginning! In the fact that it was her, and no one else, who was handed all the clues to the killers identity, by non other then the killer himself, and still didn't have a clue to what they were!