Sorority Row (2009)
Sororities are a KILLER EXPERIENCE!
Sorority Row is a 2009 horror slasher/thriller about a group of sorority sisters whose prank has gone horribly wrong when one of their own is accidentally butchered, forcing the others to desert her deceased body in an isolated well. But it comes back to haunt em when a hooded/cloaked serial killer endangers their sorority sociable house on campus. Directed by Stewart Hendler, the film is distributed by Summit Ent, and it mainly stars Jamie Chung (OUAT, Believe, Sin City, Grown Ups/Adults), Briana Evigan (Darko, Step Up), Leah Pipes (The Originals, Charmed, Law + Order: Los Angeles), Adriana Patridge (Into the Blue), Rum Willis (House Bunny), Margo Harshman (College Road Trip, Even Stevens, Big Bang Theory), and Caroline D’More, with the late Carrie Fisher (Family Guy, Star Wars).
The themes of sororities, campus sisterhood, and immense guilt/remorse are present in the film yet in light of their sorority sisterhood, the main characters prevail over the killer heroically. The film depicts their sorority house/sisterhood accurately as indefinite partying incl. booze, gender activity, and exoticism. Better sororities than frats anyway. The girls portray mainly perseverance, patriotic heroism, coping with trauma/guilt/remorse, determining what is the next right thing to enact, and covering up an accidental murder as a prank gone horribly awry for the greater good. Thus, it includes them doing the wrong but for morally the right reason/s. The diverse equalities shown in the film primarily are female white American/Asian-American characters/actors. Some male actors are included. Chung is Asian-American, compared to most of the other characters/actors.
The violence and scariness incl. characters being gored to death (accidentally/deliberately), disemboweled graphically, sliced at, impaled in the side of the head, etc. A male character is crushed to death by a car. Another is burnt to death with a fiery weapon. There are plenty of blooded slaughterings with bladed weapons and nose-busting tools also shown in the film. Mentioning of dismemberment is above all included. Some characters even barf violently at sorority parties/gatherings and beyond. Bare teets/Ds/melons are shown on screen at parties, in the showers, etc. Most of the film depicts female characters in exotically attractive/seductive attire, exposing vast amounts of boobage/cleavage. BJs (OS), gender, DV (date violation/statutory), etc, are mentioned throughout the film. A partially nude male character is tied to a bed. Homo gender mentions are also included throughout, alongside favors for safe and consented gender activity. One act of gender-based activity is shown on cam secretly. Most of all, females’ bare peaches are unveiled on screen, while Mickeys/roofies are referenced in the entirety of the film.
The language used in the film incl. the F-bomb, the S-word, the H-word, the WH-word, the D-word, the A-word, the D-word for banana/idiot (vulgar/slang), the AH-word, the DB-word, “oh my God,” the B-word, and “getting laid.” There is plenty of doping, drinking, and smoking throughout the movie, incl. roofies (off-screen, mentioned only) and mentioning of drug dealing on campus. For these reasons, I highly Sorority Row to age groups from late adolescents to adults, even those whoa are fans of horror films as well as sororities (incl. related film, such as “Neighbors 2,” released in 2016).