Sorority Row
Directed by Stewart Hendler

The pitch of Sorority Row basically serves as a review: "They're not just college girls. They're BITCHES!" Its contempt moves beyond the slasher film standby of girls being disrobed and dismembered. These filmmakers try to justify themselves by making their co-ed lambs-for-the-slaughter even more despicable than those in Black Christmas 2006. Practically the entire film consists of status-based verbal putdowns. Because screenwriters Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger and director Stewart Hendler refuse to consider any humanity in spoiled white girls, Sorority Row is void of aspiration and tension. Death scenes play up sexual punishment: Promiscuous Chugs (Margo Harshman) is impaled by a wine bottle she's forced to deep throat. Only the climax allows wit, providing an ending for a character arc the previous 90 minutes forgot to consider.

Copyright, Mark Palermo