This weeks horror remake is Sorority Row, a stalk and slash movie that has a prank backfire on the bitchy, student heroines. So 8 months after they unwittingly murder their fellow sorority sister, the unlikable girlies start getting picked off, one by one, in true 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' style. This is essentially the Scream 4 we never got; young people being eradicated in a variety of violent encounters with the search for killer's secret identity forming the main narrative thrust. Yep, another horror whodunit with an obvious conclusion.
The averageness of it's execution is acceptable for two reasons. It's plainly not as shit as Michael Bay's efforts, being a step above The Hitcher, Friday The 13th, etc. And it stars a bunch of hot chicks. Jamie Chung, Leah Pipes, Rumer Willis (daughter of Bruce and Demi) and Briana Evigan (yes, daughter of Greg...who you may remember from such shows as Tekwar and B.J. and the Bear) may all be unlikable sluts but they are at least perky and cute. And that, ladies and gentlemen, has been the basis of ALL stalk and slash movies since time began. Amen to that.
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Despite the cute girls I found this immensly boring. I nearly turned off halfway through as I just wasn't remotely interested in who was killing who as they were all so unlikable and the (no pun intended) execution was so utterly bland and workmanlike.
I've seen this exact same film time after time after time. They need a solid hook (again - no pun intended)and some talent to make them fun. The Scream movies (I only like the first one) were at least self-referential, funny and played around with horror movie cliches. Even the first Urban Legend film had a good concept and a much better 'who's the killer' story. Much, much better, though, is the likes of the blackly humorous Cherry Falls.
To me Sorority Row falls squarley in the bland and boring I Know What You Did Last Summer category. But at least it wasn't as mind numbing and bloodless as the godawful Prom Night remake. Still, this is a sub-genre I'm fast growing to despise.
Kill 'em all!
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