Sorority Row (2009)

A group of sorority sisters try to cover up the death of their house-sister after a prank gone wrong, only to be stalked by a serial killer.

Director:

Stewart Hendler

Writers:

Josh Stolberg (screenplay), Pete Goldfinger (screenplay) (as Peter Goldfinger)

Stars:

Briana Evigan, Rumer Willis, Carrie Fisher

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Teri Andrez	...	Bra-Clad Sister (as Teri Andrzejewski)
Adam Barrie	...	Danny (as Adam Berry)
Megan Wolfley	...	Trampoline Sister (as Megan Elizabeth Wolfley)
Robert Belushi	...	Amazed Senior Guy (as Rob Belushi)
Marie Blanchard	...	Over-It Sister
Briana Evigan	...	Cassidy
Zack Garrett	...	Thwarted Guy (as Zachary Garrett)
Margo Harshman	...	Chugs
Rumer Willis	...	Ellie
Jamie Chung	...	Claire
Leah Pipes	...	Jessica
Audrina Patridge	...	Megan
Matt O'Leary	...	Garret
Julian Morris	...	Andy
Debra Gordon	...	Mrs. Tappan

Storyline

"Sorority Row" sees a group of sorority sisters try to cover up the death of their house-sister after a prank gone wrong, only to be stalked by a serial killer.

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Plot Keywords:

sorority house | prank gone wrong | scantily clad female | stabbed in the neck | shotgun | 

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Taglines:

Theta Pi must die.

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Genres:

Horror | Mystery

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong bloody violence, language, some sexuality/nudity and partying

Did You Know?

Trivia

The frat boy who drunkly declares himself a "sea pig" is directly referencing the original film, wherein a student jumps into the sorority swimming pool and declares the same.

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Goofs

When the girls and Garrett are driving to the mineshaft Jessica says "Look at me" three times. The second time her mouth does not move.

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Quotes

Cassidy: [while returning to the party] Where is everybody?
Claire: Probably dead.
Jessica: Yeah, and the corpses drove their cars home, idiot!

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Crazy Credits

The Summit Entertainment logo is tinted a light red which then descends through a series of outlined tree branches

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Connections

Referenced in 31 Days of Horror: Sorority Row (2009) (2019)

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Soundtracks

Petite Promenade
Composed by A. Kremski
Courtesy of Firstcom Music, A Unit of Universal Music Z-Tunes, LLC

User Reviews

Sarcastic Sorority Slash Fest

We've been down this road several times before. There's a prank that goes horribly wrong where a sorority girl dies and it's up to her sorority sisters to cover it up. After a passage of time, they begin to get threats suggesting that someone knows what they did and, soon after that, they begin dying one by one. It's more or less the same plot as the original House on Sorority Row.

Sorority Row, obviously, updates this story to the modern age complete with camera phones and text messages and all that jazz, but the sorority girls themselves have gotten quite a makeover themselves. In fact, they're the most interesting part of this film and it seems as if the filmmakers would much rather hang around them shooting the breeze and calling one another out than they would filming interesting sequences of suspense or creative death scenes. It leaves the horror aspect feeling a bit underthought and lacking a lot of visceral thrills, but this approach does supply a handful of genuine chuckles throughout and it's never boring.

Had the filmmakers modulated the film a little more into the comedy zone, Sorority Row might have made for a solid comedic parody of sorority slasher movies, but it still wants to have it's tongue in cheek humor and be taken seriously when it works harder to supply the laughs than the chills.

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Australia] Official site [United States]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

11 September 2009 (USA)

Also Known As:

House on Sorority Row

Filming Locations:

Crafton, Pennsylvania, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$12,500,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$5,059,802, 13 September 2009

Gross USA:

$11,965,282

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$27,206,120

Company Credits

Production Co:

House Row Productions, Karz Entertainment, Summit Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

101 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1