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Sorority Row (2009)

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Average Rating: 4/10
Reviews Counted: 74
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 58

Though it's slick and stylish, Sorority Row offers nothing new to the slasher genre and misses the mark both in its attempts at humor and thrills.

Average Rating: 2.7/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 8

Though it's slick and stylish, Sorority Row offers nothing new to the slasher genre and misses the mark both in its attempts at humor and thrills.

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A sorority prank gone wrong leads to a bloody murder spree in this slasher film featuring Rumer Willis, Audrina Patridge, and Carrie Fisher. It was supposed to be a practical joke, but no one was laughing after a girl in the prime of her life had been accidentally murdered. Desperate to go on with their lives and avoid taking responsibility for their actions, the surviving sisters and their male accomplice agree to dump the body and never speak of the incident again. Just after graduation,

R, 1 hr. 41 min.

Horror

Directed By: Stewart Hendler

Written By: Josh Stolberg, Peter Goldfinger

In Theaters: Sep 11, 2009 Wide

On DVD: Feb 23, 2010

Box Office:$11.9M

Summit Entertainment

Call me the sarcastic sister, but the only thing screaming in any convincing way here are the cheap look, epileptic direction, and off-key, "edgy" humor.

September 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Village Voice

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Michelle Orange

Village Voice

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Sorority Row is an interminable mess of a film that juggles more characters and undeveloped subplots than it can handle and even manages to bungle the setup.

September 14, 2009 Comment

Stephen Holden

New York Times

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The tedious flick offers little more than a few scares, and plenty of boobs. And we're not just talking about the cast.

September 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Kate Ward

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

The "scary'' moments are of the sneak-up-on-you-from-behind variety, but there's little suspense.

September 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Boston Globe

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Jonathan Perry

Boston Globe

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It lapses into that familiar category of movies that go in for lots of fancy obfuscation along the way only to make its story seem all the more simple, trite and contrived by the finish.

September 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times

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Kevin Thomas

Los Angeles Times

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There's little to distinguish this from the rest of the entries coming down the horror film assembly line.

September 11, 2009 Comment

Frank Scheck

Hollywood Reporter

Top Critic

Like the all-partying, all-screaming sisters of Theta Pi, Sorority Row feels doomed from the first frame.

August 9, 2010 Full Review Source: sbs.com.au

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Simon Foster

sbs.com.au

...a sporadically watchable yet thoroughly disappointing horror effort that's underwhelming even by the standards of the genre.

July 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Classic horror that follows the old pattern, but it follows it well with creative slashings and a well hidden killer. You could do a lot worse.

March 7, 2010 Full Review Source: CNNRadio

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Paul Chambers

CNNRadio

Sorority Row can laugh at the fact that it falls in line with genre conventions, but it doesn't excuse how easily it adopts them.

January 31, 2010 Full Review Source: Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

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Mark Pfeiffer

Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

Over-the-top humor tries to mask the problems, that it's not scary and the ending comes complete with a double-reverse-tricked-itself-out-of-coherency reveal of the killer.

November 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Examiner.com

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Adam Lippe

Examiner.com

They're not just college girls. They're B******!

November 4, 2009 Full Review | Comment

Mark Palermo

Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Welcome to Skank Ho sorority, where you'll skills like covering up the grotesque death of one of your sisters during a mean-spirited prank.

November 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Horror Hacker

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Maitland McDonagh

Horror Hacker

A fairly traditional collegiate slasher that entertains but breaks no new ground.

October 31, 2009 Full Review Source: Oscar Guy

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Wesley Lovell

Oscar Guy

I don't know what could make this movie seem dumber. Oh, and it's also a remake of What You Did Last Summer

October 16, 2009 Full Review Source: Horror Squad

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Scott Weinberg

Horror Squad

After these Bratz dolls dump the Corpsey One down a mine shaft, the plot follows, dropping us into dark spaces without any emotional gravitas, real scares, smart twists or even B-movie fun.

October 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

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Brian Gibson

Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

The cast list tells the story: It includes such characters as 'Bra-Clad Sister,' 'Slutty Sister' and (for fans of 'The Man Show'?) 'Trampoline Sister.'

September 21, 2009 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

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John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Sorority Row is most successful at creating characters even more insufferable than the usual young people who serve as slasher-flick fodder.

September 18, 2009 Full Review Source: Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)

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John Wirt

Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) Source: Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)

Unexciting remake of the cheapo 1993 slasher film.

September 18, 2009 Full Review Source: Observer [UK]

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Philip French

Observer [UK]

A movie that starts with a trampoline pillow-fight and ends with a pile of dead co-eds could have been a misogynistic mess, but Sorority Row is a snappy, bloody blast.

September 17, 2009 Full Review Source: CampBlood.org

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Brian Juergens

CampBlood.org

It's Scream minus the wit and verve, with poor Carrie Fisher lost as the cantankerous house mother.

September 17, 2009 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix

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Tom Meek

Boston Phoenix

Ruined by Hendler's pointlessly artsy direction, a stab at postmodern snarkiness and an unconscionable 101-minute running time.

September 16, 2009 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

It's yet another '80s slasher remake, so you know the drill...er, the tire iron pimped out with blades.

September 16, 2009 Full Review Source: Time Out New York

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Aaron Hillis

Time Out New York

Any film that trashes the talent of Carrie Fisher is a loser in my book and this one stomps up and down on her talent. Don't worry Carrie, I still remember Leia.

September 15, 2009 Full Review Source: jackiekcooper.com

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Jackie K. Cooper

jackiekcooper.com Source: jackiekcooper.com

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Poor! Scary but the acting just made it terrible!

June 24, 2011

Bethany Murphy

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Cast: Jamie Chung, Rumer Willis, Audrina Patridge, Carrie Fisher, Briana Evigan, Matt O'Leary, Matt Lanter, Margo Harshman, Julian Morris, Leah Pipes Director: Stewart Hendler Summary: When a prank results in the accidental death of a Theta Pi sister, the sorority's members keep the crime under wraps. But as

August 22, 2009

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1. Maggie: You killed my sister?
2. Jessica: I think Mrs. Crenshaw got her.
3. Maggie: No! Megan.
4. Jessica: Oh no, don't go out there...What, I warned her.
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