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Macabre Month 7 Part II: Sorority Row (2010)

In today's review, I find that college life is still hard with all the secrets and conspiracies, as I attempt a #positive review of the 2010 slasher remake, Sorority Row. #BrianaEvigan #LeahPipes #RumerWillis #JamieChung #MargoHarshman #JulianMorris

Terrors from the past remain as present as they do today: the fears of your deepest secret being exposed, the fear of someone watching you in the deep dark shadows, and the fear they might have murderous intentions. In 2010, following the success of other slasher remakes for the 21st century, a college sorority will know the true meaning of secrets and terror in a film known as Sorority…

[johnnymundano]

Sorority Row (2009)

Directed by Stewart Hendler

Written by Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger

Based on The House on Sorority Row by Mark Rosman

Music by Lucian Piane

Country: United States

Language: English

Running Time: 101 minutes

CAST

Briana Evigan as Cassidy Tappan

Leah Pipes as Jessica Pierson

Rumer Willis as Ellie Morris

Jamie Chung as Claire Wen

Margo Harshman as Charlene "Chugs" Bradley

Julian Morris as Andy Richards

Audrina Patridge as Megan Blaire

Caroline D'Amore as Maggie Blaire

Carrie Fisher as Mrs. Crenshaw

Matt O'Leary as Garrett Bradley

Matt Lanter as Kyle Tyson

Maxx Hennard as Mickey

Rick Applegate as Senator Tyson

Ken Bolden as Dr. Rosenburg

Nicole Moore as Joanna

Deja Kreutzberg as Riley

Natalia Dove as Bucky

Debra Gordon as Mrs. Tappan

Sorority Row is a decently entertaining 2009 re-imagining of the 1983 non-classic slasher flick The House on Sorority Row. My suspicion is there must have been some kind of creative drought in Hollywood prior to 2009, as that year also saw the re-imagining of the 1981 non-classic slasher flick My Bloody Valentine, with both following hot on the heels of the 2008 re-imagining of the 1980 non-classic slasher flick Prom Night. Maybe it was just a knock-on effect of the 2007 writers’ strike over digital content compensation; a dearth of original scripts leading to money and talent being chucked at cobwebby, low risk properties. I don’t know, maybe it just affected TV, but it’s always fun to remind people that strikes can work, and you don’t just have to put up with shit. Whatever, in Sorority Row we have an old-school slasher movie reunion.

Sorority Row is fine as a glossy polish job on an old-school slasher flick, maybe a little better than fine, since it is well acted by a capable cast and has some vivid kills. I don’t really set the bar too high for slasher flicks and Sorority Row clears it easily; I laughed, I winced, I rolled my eyes, I did all three at once and scared the cat; job done. Not being American though, Sorority Row works as both an old-school slasher flick and an alternate reality movie. For overseas viewers Sorority Row is set in a strangely clean world where everyone is rich and their children are all gorgeous sociopaths. Someone like Paul Verhoeven could push this stuff into a dark satire, no problem. But, alas, Paul Verhoeven never graced a slasher flick with his presence, so here we get Stewart Hendler. Mr Hendler's main interest in Sorority Row is not social commentary but having his camera sway boozily about like a creepy middle aged guy leering his way through sexy teen parties of unbridled animalistic hedonism. These (very long) party scenes of boorish keg chugging and hot tub rutting to the blaring beat of unmemorable toons, are not really my idea of a good time, basically, but the horrible inhabitants of Sorority Row sure like ‘em.

In fact so much into partying are the girls of the Theta Pi sorority that I’m not sure what any of them are studying; maybe Advanced Bitchery and Post-Modern Vajazzling? Anyway, whatever they were studying (Applied Self-Involvement?) tonight’s the night our eye-catching yet soulless ghouls graduate so it’s pa-art-ay tah-haym! Woop! Woop! That’s the sound of your self-respect throwing up in a rosebush. But (dun-dun-DUNNNN!) tonight might also be the last night of their lives. No, not because they might choke on their own vomit or fall coked-up-face-first through a glass table, but because a maniac wants them dead! Actually I imagine a lot of people want this bunch of plasticised horrors dead, but someone is actually acting on this desire, with a “pimped up” tire iron no less. Can they find out who, before the next class reunion has to be held in an urn?

Sorority Row is an old-school slasher movie so, no, no, they can’t. What happens, because it is an old-school  slasher movie, is most of the high maintenance cast run about purposelessly, squabbling and doing stupid things until they die in inventive ways and the killer basically just reveals themselves because, well,  it’s that time in the old-school slasher movie when the killer reveals themselves. Good luck to anyone who still thinks there are going to be fogeyish things like “clues”. It is possible to  guess the killer in an old-school slasher flick because it’s usually the person the movie can’t stop telling you it isn’t. Even so, it’s still only a guess. When it comes to old-school slasher movies even Sherlock Holmes might as well just fire a harpoon gun at a list of character names.

Luckily, although the who is in doubt, they don’t have to find out why they are being killed since that’s obvious even to this bunch of ambulatory moral vacuums. Sorority Row is a retread of an old-school slasher movie so obviously it all starts with a prank. In the normal world a prank is writing “wanker” on someone’s forehead while they are asleep, or putting cellophane over the hole in the toilet seat. In the old-school slasher movie universe a prank involves giving your mate roofies and having her boyfriend snog her until she brings up fake puke and pretends to pass out. Then you bundle her, your mates and the scared boyfriend into your car that cost more than my house, and drive off pretending to look for a hospital, but instead going to a disused mine out of range of a mobile signal, where you declare your friend dead. This isn’t convoluted or hilariously prank-tastic enough for the unlovely ladies of Theta Pi, so they push it a bit further and it all goes horribly, fatally wrong. When the dust settles the girls are bound by a terrible secret and estranged from one of their number, who is slightly less awful than the others (you are supposed to root for this one). Now the past has come back to kill them and it’s only a matter of time before someone gets a flare gun in the face.

I’m guessing the characters (except Carrie Fisher’s pretty great, pretty funny, House Mother) are so godawful only so that we can get off on their sadistic deaths. This strikes me as being less than healthy. But then the Surgeon General has yet to endorse any old-school slasher flick for its beneficial medicinal properties. Let’s just call it cathartic, that usually works. As nasty as Sorority Row is, luckily for it there is a strong undercurrent of humour; so we can pretend it’s all just good clean fun.  And so like many old-school slasher flicks it is indeed nasty unclean fun; it’s just not very scary. In fact the scariest part is provided by Rumer Willis, who is in it as the mousy one, but it doesn’t occur in the movie; when you look at Sorority Row’s “trivia” section on the streaming service, it tells you Rumer had a poster of her future father-in-law, Ashton Kutcher, on her wall before he married her mum. Ugh! You don’t have to have been to college to think even Freud might throw up at that.

[lazybasementconnoisseur]

Termina una era: sacan del aire a famoso programa dominical Un nuevo escándalo rodeó a un importante ícono en el mundo de la televisión. Nos referimos con esto a Mario Kreutzberger, mejor conocido como Don Francisco. #Hispanos: ¡juntos lo podemos todo! No te pierdas este #mensaje de @DonFranciscoTV https://t.co/ONUsvAHglE pic.twitter.com/BqxdeuUZ9y — DonFran... SUSCRIBETE ES GRATIS!! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiFBDYHiRQ5ph4nGKYhyIQg?sub_confirmation=1 SUSCRIBETE para no perderte nada, aqui seguiremos activos Dando a conocer mas de HUNI News , deja tu comentario y tu like, nos motiva a seguir adelante Hasta la Proxima!! #Termina #una #era #sacan #del #aire #a #famoso #programa #dominical

[fanrandywayne]

Jim & Rachel Britts on  the set of "To Save A Life" with Deja Kreutzberg, Randy Wayne and  Dawn Copus

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[dunnetwins]

Roger walked into school and started shooting. I knew him, he wasn't crazy. And did anyone stop and ask why? I mean, how did it get to the point where his only option was to shoot himself?

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rayful's top 30 movies (favorite scene in no particular order) ✟ to save a life

"i feel so alone. like i'm the only person in the world that feels this way, and... and it doesn't even matter. it's not important. it's not important. or maybe cause i'm not important? i'm screaming out; doing everything in my power to be heard! hidden, silence is louder than my screams. what else can i do to be heard but to tear down my world? break apart me life? die? i just want somebody to listen, and to not be angry that i'm not content! because i'm not. i'm not happy. i feel like i'm stuck in a world where no one wants me; in a world where i'm so completely different i can never fit in or be understood. i can scream as loud as i want to but the screams will always fade because no one really knows how to listen. well, maybe this will show them."

[lazybasementconnoisseur]

Termina una era: sacan del aire a famoso programa dominical

Termina una era: sacan del aire a famoso programa dominical Termina una era: sacan del aire a famoso programa dominical Un nuevo escándalo rodeó a un importante ícono en el mundo de la televisión. Nos referimos con esto a Mario Kreutzberger, mejor conocido como Don Francisco. #Hispanos: ¡juntos lo podemos todo! No te pierdas este #mensaje de @DonFranciscoTV https://t.co/ONUsvAHglE pic.twitter.com/BqxdeuUZ9y — DonFran... SUSCRIBETE ES GRATIS!! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiFBDYHiRQ5ph4nGKYhyIQg?sub_confirmation=1 SUSCRIBETE para no perderte nada, aqui seguiremos activos Dando a conocer mas de HUNI News , deja tu comentario y tu like, nos motiva a seguir adelante Hasta la Proxima!! #Termina #una #era #sacan #del #aire #a #famoso #programa #dominical

[mondromero-blog]

After a childhood friend's death, Jake Taylor, an all-star athlete must change his life - and sacrifice his dreams to save the lives of others.

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[fanrandywayne]

To Save a Life, The Full Behind the Scenes (Video, 12 min). Randy Wayne, Deja Kreutzberg, Sean Afable, Joshua Weigel, Steve Foster, Robert Bailey Jr...

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Thanks: To Save a Life Facebook & Vimeo

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Randy Wayne & Deja Kreutzberg at the photocall (2010)

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Thanks: Khater's Photos

[fanrandywayne]

Photocall: Randy Wayne, Deja Kreutzberg, Kim Hidalgo - The 19th Annual Movieguide Awards Gala red carpet.

(At the end of the video appears Sarah Karges)

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Thanks: Maximotv.com  Not intentionally infringement copyright

[fanrandywayne]

"Some people are just DYING to be heard..." Great fan video #ToSaveALife

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Dialogue:

"I feel so alone. Like I'm the only person in the world that feels this way and it doesn't even matter. I just want somebody to listen and to not be angry that I'm not content, because I'm not. I'm not happy. I feel like I'm stuck in a world where no one wants me." - Roger "The other guys, uh, they didn't want Roger around so... I just ditched him. And I would see him every day, walkin' to school, in the halls and... I never even said hi." - Jake "You know it's easy to blame. But last week, Roger took a look at his life and he said, 'I am not worth it!' So whatever he was hoping to find here he obviously didn't find it." - Chris "I told you it's not your fault, okay? You didn't pull the trigger." - Amy "Why does everyone keep saying that? You don't listen to me. I know I didn't kill him. I know I didn't tell him to shoot up the school. I know that I didn't do anything!" - Jake "None of us did!" - Amy "That's the point, Amy... Why didn't I?" - Jake "There was this kid at the party tonight and they wouldn't let him because he wasn't... he wasn't cool enough. I mean how messed up is that, he wasn't cool enough?" - Jake "Everything around me is falling apart. If I were gone everything could be fixed. Why would anyone even care if I were gone? Maybe this is just how life is. Maybe it'll only get worse. I don't think life really wants me either." - Jonny "My girlfriend came here today and she left because she felt judged. And no one even noticed. Roger walked into school and started shooting. I knew him, he wasn't crazy. And did anyone ever stop and ask why?! I mean, how did it get to the point where his only option was to shoot himself?! There are people killing themselves! What's the point of all this if you're not gonna let it change you?" - Jake "Dear Jake, I wanted to say this in person, but it's weird. Remember that time that you asked me if I have ever felt the way Roger did? I said I didn't. I lied. I thought about taking my life all the time. I even wrote the letter explaining why to my mom. Then out of no where, you came up and invited me to eat with you guys. I don't know where I'd be if you hadn't done that. I just wanted to say thank you." - Jonny

[fanrandywayne]

To Save A Life - Behind The Scenes. Randy Wayne, Laura Black, Deja Kreutzberg, David Starzyk...

[fanrandywayne]

Nice photo! Part of cast & crew of To Save A Life (Randy, Sean, Kim, Deja, Laura....)

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