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  • Author Marta Skub
  • Published April 9, 2010
  • Word count 476

Meet Jessica, Claire, Cassidy, Chugs, Ellie and Megan, of Theti Pi sororitys graduating women of the class of 2009 at Rosman University, USA. Each has little in common with the others aside perhaps from vanity, vindictiveness, a foulmouth and maybe the same brand of implants or collagen injections. Do not be fooled into thinking that these young women dislike themselves. It is just the rest of us whom they hate.

Each has a mean streak in her that she can get away with simply because she is attractive, popular and well-connected enough where people will overlook it. They seem to believe that "Find me on Facebook. I'll totally confirm" are magic words that can fix anything.

These college graduates, with a wealth of personal capital developed over their years at their sorority and university (as well as from their parents), are the leaders of tomorrow. How frightening and potentially damaging it is what these devastatingly perky, buxom beauty queens with perfectly teased hair have done in the recent past.

In an elaborate and cruel prank on Garrett (O'Leary), Chugs' brother, the girls trick him into thinking that he is responsible for the accidental death of Megan and take him to an abandoned place to hide the corpse. Garrett falls for it hook, line and sinker. But then accidentally Megan really does die and they really do have to hide the corpse.

The girls are still busy trying to cover up their crime rather than go for help as people start getting brutally killed by a mysterious hooded psycho who it would appear knows what they did.

Hollywoods predilection for remaking old horror movies is evident again as this remake of the 1983 film The House on Sorority Row (or rather a re-imagined version of the Mark Rosman screenplay "Seven Sisters") has been remade in 2009 as simply "Sorority Row". Compared with the previous attempt this one is all jiggle and no steak.

Apparently it was decided that the original The House on Sorority Row(1983) written and directed by Rosman, featured sorority sister characters that were too multi-dimensional, likeable and flatchested in a setting that was too realistic with a plot that was too intellectual for its audience and didn't have enough nudity.

The original 1983 version upon which this was based just made more sense overall and the characters were not so unbelievably stupid or garish as they are here in this much loathed and dreaded remake. The original also did not look as though it was cast by Russ Meyer.

It seems that it was also decided there was not enough killing, gore or in the original. A misogynistic angle in the new version is evident in the marketing campaign. The entire idea of the first part of this film seems to be getting the audience to despise the characters enough to want to see them be violently killed.

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