Sorority Girl (1957)
2/10
She won't be getting any surprise pity party from me.
11 August 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Threats, blackmail, violence, crocodile tears. All from one sorority sister, the truly vile Susan Cabot. Bike towards those she pledged with, vile to the plane Jane, desperately seeking attention. All because she has a wretched harpy of a mother, all an excuse to treat everyone around her like crap. Thus exploitation film from American International is supposed to be a shocking expose of what goes on behind the scenes of the doors to the women's dorm, and supposed to be serious, not laughable.

In the period of only an hour, there are multiple subplots that take away from the necessary explanations of why sororities or fraternities like this need to exist in the first place. A good majority of the so-called college girls look like they should be long graduated, if not way past the age of worrying of what everybody else would think about that. Forget this one and find the comedy video, "Sorority Girls from hell" by Lois Bromfield.

Having recognized the almost Dante's Inferno style credits, I was instantly reminded that I had suffered through it once before. Evenvthe confrontation at the end is a let down, and Fay Baker, as Cabot's mother, has to be one of the worst actors I've seen on film, her ineptness obvious when she played Bette Davis's money grubbing sister in "The Star". There's far more plot in that than this vulture of a movie. I use vulture, because I really don't want to insult a turkey.
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