1982 Directed by Mark Rosman
After a seemingly innocent prank goes horribly wrong, a group of sorority sisters are stalked and murdered one by one in their sorority house while throwing a party to celebrate their graduation.
Kate McNeil Eileen Davidson Janis Ward Robin Meloy Harley Jane Kozak Jodi Draigie Ellen Dorsher Lois Kelso Hunt Christopher Lawrence Michael Kuhn Michael Sergio Ruth Walsh Ed Heath Jean Schertler Larry Singer Carlos Sério Peter McClung Mark Rosman Kenny Myers Ruth Moss Hilary Crowson Nanna Ingvarsson
House of Evil, Non entrate in quel collegio, Dom pani Slater, 7 syntistä sisarta, Dům milosrdných sester, Φόνοι στο παρθεναγωγείο, A Casa na Esquina de Sorority, Dom milosrdných sestier, На греческой улице..., Kuća sestrinstva, Presagio
The House on Sorority Row is not only one of my favorite slasher films of all time, it's one of the best--period.
Released in 1983, this is the golden era for the slasher film, it's post-Friday the 13th, meaning that while it's still borrowing from the late '70s trend of thoughtful characterization [well, at least a few steps above a cast of caricatures], it's also catering to the body count/gore quota that was at its peek popularity, at this time slashers were thriving with their emphasis on grisly death, which lasted until the, sometimes sleazy, subgenre began falling victim to its own unstoppable, evil force: The MPAA, if you wanted gory slasher films from the later part of the '80s,…
A prank gone DEAD wrong. A missing body. Sorority Sisters who don't know what a bra is, start dying one by one. Will anyone survive the night? The House on Sorority Row might be low-no-budget, but it has a lot of the qualities I admire in early 80's slashers.
I'm not sure if all "horror junkies" will dig this. Why? Well, a lot of the kills happen off camera, you hardly see the killer, it's more tension than terror, and the ending isn't 100% conclusive. But, if you think about it, that sounds a lot like Halloween or 70's Italian Giallo. If you're looking for buckets of blood, look somewhere else. However, I believe director, Mark Rosman, did a helluva…
Classic. Slasher Hall of Fame. Full of great atmosphere, great kills, and great bitchy sorority girls. I remember seeing the “head in the toilet” on the back of the VHS box as a kid and being too much of a pussy to rent it but I’m glad I got over that and because the soulless heathen I am today who’s capable of watching anything without even blinking because this movie is fantastic. That entire finale is some brilliant creepy ass stuff and I love the last frame.
Still, I know this is an extremely unpopular opinion, but if I have to choose, I prefer the remake ever so slightly. Sorry, that’s just who I am and what I believe. Briana Evigan is everything I’ve ever wanted in a final girl.
Solid mid tier 80s slasher with a great premise, likeable characters and an intriguing mystery. The acting is a cut above many other 80s slashers and there's more depth to the characters. Disturbing at times with great atmosphere this movie provides an engaging experience.
This film has some great settings and I especially love the band scenes. Great suspense and some pretty intense kills make this one fairly bleak at times. Most 80s slashers I watch are pretty cheesy so it's always nice to see one a little more on the serious side.
Still, there's something keeping me from completely loving this one and I'm really not sure what it is. It could be that it's a little too similar…
THE SWEEPING SCORE IS ACES. Also, this contains one of the most riveting hallucinogenic final acts within the genre, solidifying this as one of my favorite 80's slashers.
The scorpion releasing blu looks pretty awesome.
Viewed on MBOX
Chain Reaction Challenge #19
Oh, wow.
I really didn't think that The House On Sorority Row (1982) was this good.
While it isn't a complete home run for me, it is a really great slasher flick.
The House On Sorority Row (1982) is about a group of sorority sisters who prank their "den mother" as revenge for the years she was mean to them.
The prank goes wrong and all hell breaks loose.
Again, I was completely surprised by how good the film is.
More praise should be shown towards The House On Sorority Row (1982).
"I'm a sea pig"...indeed.
Filmed in Baltimore, this film thanks one "David Simon" in the credits. According to IMDB, it's someone else (or at least, it doesn't link to The Wire's David Simon). I am deeply disappointed that the pugnacious scoundrel who created Treme [/add to Google's dictionary, fucking seriously?!] had nothing to do with this.
The last 20 minutes or so of this are nearly perfect. The final twist--and thank god for them twists, otherwise this would have been more disappointing--is not entirely unpredictable, but it allows the director to just go bananas. Neatly foreshadowed costumery and well timed misdirects in the action (young man to the rescue! or not) are like little bursts of nitro speeding up an already exhilarating finale, It…
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The House on Sorority Row (1983)
Another slasher from the genre's golden age, directed by De Palma protege Mark Rosman. In honesty, the one thing that drew me to this one was this laughably botched line-delivery. Seriously, how everyone else on set didn't just burst out laughing after that is beyond me.
Not that this film doesn't offer more beyond that of course.
Apparently inspired by Diabolique, Sorority Row takes place around a sorority house at a Maryland university. A group of soroity sisters are fed up with their mistreatment at the hands of troubled house mother Mrs. Slater. So they can throw a party at the house, the girls come up with an initially…
Great stuff!
I'd heard a lot of good things about The House On Sorority Row and it's safe to say that this early 80's slasher delivered. It's a very well crafted horror film featuring a relatable cast of characters being culled in entertaining ways (my favourite would have to be Harley Kozak as Diane).
Some of the gore effects are a bit dodgy (a lot of the kills occur off-screen) and the plot is pretty predictable, but at the end of the day IT'S DAMN GOOD FUN!!
I'm now looking forward to watching the 2009 remake.
On a side note: It's probably un-PC to say so, but a pre-soap Eileen Davidson had excellent boobies!
Last night it was The House on Sorority Row, the alleged cult classic slasher movie directed by Mark Rosman.
It follows seven sorority sisters as they plan a graduation party in a sorority house. The house owner - Mrs Slater - is having none of it and demands that the girls leave - something I empathised with as I found all the girls highly irritating and extremely dumb. Anyway, the girls decided to teach old grumpy Slater a lesson by playing a cruel practical joke on her involving a real gun. Predictably the gun goes off and actually kills Mrs Slater. The girls decide to wrap and tie her in blankets and dump her in the dirty pool outside in…
Although this isn't one of the best-known of 1980s slasher flicks, it's actually a fairly decent effort. Sure, there are cliches aplenty here: a traumatic killer origin story, promiscuous teens, lots of scenes of characters foolishly creeping around darkened locations and so on. However, there are also some unusual (for the genre) suspense thriller elements roped in here that share more with Les Diaboliques than Friday the 13th.
The acting is more than serviceable and Mark Rosman's direction is competent, even quite visually stylish on occasion (especially near the end). Some of the gore effects aren't overly convincing but, then again, they are only shown fleetingly.
It’s a shame it took me 13 years to ride my first roller coaster, and an even bigger shame it took me 24 to see The House on Sorority Row.
One of the prettiest, well-made slashers I’ve seen. Kate McNeil as Katherine is a top 5 scream queen, she’s just in the wrong movie.
Viewed on MBOX
Chain Reaction Challenge #19
Oh, wow.
I really didn't think that The House On Sorority Row (1982) was this good.
While it isn't a complete home run for me, it is a really great slasher flick.
The House On Sorority Row (1982) is about a group of sorority sisters who prank their "den mother" as revenge for the years she was mean to them.
The prank goes wrong and all hell breaks loose.
Again, I was completely surprised by how good the film is.
More praise should be shown towards The House On Sorority Row (1982).
"I'm a sea pig"...indeed.
I mean, there is a fun story here. Wait, what happens in the end? Who did what?
I'm a Sea Pig
i think i would’ve liked this more if i hadn’t gone in anticipating a lot of practical gore which was commonplace in 70s to early 80s era slashers, which this movie had close to zero of. oh well. cool poster though!
A decent slasher but doesn’t really pack enough of a punch in any specific area to make it a classic for me.
LOVE this movie. It was way better than I thought it would be. If you're into college horror, watch this! It rules.
A competently made, if rather uninspired and derivative slasher from the 80s about a sorority prank gone wrong. It certainly holds up a lot better than similar movies from the period.
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