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Director: Stewart Hendler
Movie review
From Time Out London
It’s stalk ’n’ slash remake time again, as largely forgotten 1983 nasty The House on Sorority Row’ is transformed into a booty-shakin’, text-messagin’, Facebook-referencin’ multiplex moneyspinner for undemanding twenty-first-century teens.When one of their ‘sisters’ dies as the result of a wildly misjudged prank, a gang of final-year American students decide to cover it up. But someone knows what they did last summer and isn’t about to let the girls get away with it…
‘Sorority Row’ isn’t as completely dire as its pedigree suggests: the script contains a few nicely barbed one-liners, while Stewart Hendler’s relatively tasteful handling of the death scenes results in a few throat-grabbing shocks. And, to its credit, the movie never attempts to present its self-serving central characters as anything other than repellent, devious over-privileged monsters. But it also never delivers a decent reason for us to spend 101 minutes in their company, resulting in a shallow, occasionally diverting but largely irrelevant horror throwback.
Author: Tom Huddleston
Time Out London Issue 2038, 10-16 Sept 2009
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Posted on Oct 10 2009 10:08
iloved this film so damn well much... it was very rather goooood!!!!!!!
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- natalie said...
- Posted on Sep 30 2009 14:05 what a great film loved every min of it my mate watched it through her fingers so will av t watch it again..................
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- sarah said...
- Posted on Sep 27 2009 16:19 mmmmmm Audrina looks very sexy
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- Posted on Sep 27 2009 09:01 U need to get out more mate!!!!
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- DannyFitz said...
- Posted on Sep 26 2009 21:25 I though it was good. I really enjoyed this film. Yeah most people are bored of these types of films, but i was entertained for the 101 minutes of my life....
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- roger rabbit said...
- Posted on Sep 26 2009 20:28 Utter waste of 101mins of your life ! Ive had more thrills at the postman pat ride outside Tesco for 50pence
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Cast & crew
Director: Stewart Hendler
Cast: Adam Berry, Briana Evigan, Margo Harshman, Rumer Willis, Carrie Fisher
Rated: 15
Duration: 101 mins
UK Release: Sep 11 2009
US Release: Sep 18 2009
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