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Do you remember the movie “I Know What You Did Last Summer?”
If you don’t, then “Sorority Row” will seem like an original idea to you.
In this movie based off of Mark Rosman’s screenplay “The Seven Sisters,” Briana Evigen (Step up 2) stars as Cassidy, a sister in the popular sorority Theta Pi.
Cassidy and her sorority sisters Ellie (Rumer Willis), Claire (Jamie Chung), Jessica (Leah Pipes) and Chugs (Margo Harshman) seem to have it all, until a practical joke ends in the murder of one of their fellow sisters.
Desperate and afraid, the girls decide that they will throw the body of their friend down a well and set up Cassidy to take the fall if she goes to the police.
Eight months later the sisters are graduating and back to their normal, partying ways. Everything seems to be going well until all of the girls involved in the ill-fated prank receive a text, a video of their friend being stabbed through the chest with a tire iron.
The girls try to ignore the text until the sorority sisters and some of the people connected to them start getting killed- with a pimped out tire iron.
The rest of the movie is just like any other slasher movie- plenty of blood curdling screams (all of which are made by an annoyingly pathetic Ellie), lots of fake blood and creepy music.
Although a lot of the characters in the movie were new faces or faces we’ve only seen once or twice before, the acting was surprisingly good.
And even though many of the decisions that the characters in the movie made were stupid, the audience could understand their motivations, which made it a little less annoying.
The ending is the movie’s biggest downfall.
While the mystery killer was so completely shocking it made your jaw drop, some parts building up the big unmasking didn’t make sense and were completely random and unbelievable.
Also, the directors tried to make the ending an open one, forcing it to be even more unbelievable and setting it up for the surely terrible sequel to follow.
All in all, I would recommend this movie only if you’re someone that doesn’t mind a disappointing ending and a final scene ripped off from “Charlie’s Angels.”
