Christopher Lawrence, Eileen Davidson, Janis Zido

After a confrontation with their housemother (Lois Kelso Hunt), seven sorority sisters plot revenge -- which leads to an accidental death. Despite the girls' efforts to cover up their crime, they find...( read more  read more... ) themselves targeted by someone -- or something -- who knows what they did.

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R, 1 hr. 31 min.

Directed by: Mark Rosman

Release Date: January 21, 1983

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DVD Release Date: November 21, 2000

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  • July 19, 2009
    This slasher pic from the 80's is fondly remembered by fans of the genre - but not by many others. Which is a shame - this film is on a level with the original Friday the 13th, way behind Halloween and probably a bit better than Prom Night.

    Anna Friel-lookalike Kate McNeil (who ...( read more)she?) is terrific in the role of helpless sorority girl regretting her past and looking to be a lone survivor amongst all the slashings going on around her. Yep - Jennifer Love Hewitt's role from I Know What You Did Last Summer. But McNeil was there first. She went on to appear in a Walton family TV movie and crap film extroadinaire Glitter. But she's picked a good one here, so all is forgiven for future cinematic or televisual manure.

    So what will your date or your mother or whoever you choose to show it to, get out of this one?

    Well - the acting from virtually all concerned is pretty much OK, and sometimes even convincing.

    The plot can be dealt with in a sentence of course. I'll do that now, but won't give anything away - honest. This is the basics. But if you don't want to hear anything at all, then look away now as it's a

    ***POSSIBLE SPOILER SCENARIO*****

    Sorority girls in baby doll outfits (OK then - often in baby doll outfits, but not always)kill old owner of the house they live in and the stalker that comes back could or could not be this old owner back from the dead. She was also a mad old owner with a viscous-looking walking stick -so it could well be a possibility worth considering. The mad old owner also once had a difficult labour (of the baby kind - not political party or hard kind)and the doctor who was present at the time still hangs around. Bizarre huh? Take your pick as to who's killing the semi-dressed girls. Or go for another option. The choice is yours!

    ***POSSIBLE SPOILER ENDS*****

    There - told you. One sentence. Well, nearly. And only a bit longer than the word count needed to describe the plot of Prom Night or Friday the 13th part so and so (all of which I love by the way - don't get me wrong!).

    What else do you get to see? Oh yes - sex on a water bed that gets very wet. Some pretty unexplicit killings, of the family-orientated kind. Well, maybe not family - but of the drunk teen kind for sure. And a nice music score with rubbish 80's pop band in the middle.

    The bit where our heroine waits in a darkened room, doped up, for the killer to arrive is also very effective. Worth watching for this almost surreal sequence alone.

    Good acting, bad killings, damp sex. Nothing new here for an 80's slasher movie. Oh - apart from the good acting bit of course.

    Your date will LOVE this movie - or hate it. But hey - if he/she hates it and you love it then what are you doing sharing a sofa together in the first place?
  • January 3, 2008
    A forgotten slasher that rises well above others of its kind.
  • September 28, 2006
    One of the best slasher movies of the early 80s, a creepy, stylish thriller with a wonderfully extended and dazzling climax. Rosman was a student of DePalma and shows us with this film that he knows his stuff.
  • May 23, 2009
    Good old 80's horror. Cheesy predictable mystery theme and decent kills.
    Looking forward to this year's remake..the trailer looks great. 4/5 stars.
  • January 8, 2009
    "House On The Sorority Row" delivers a great slasher experience as it's gory, suspenful, and very well directed. The acting and fun factor are interesting as you can imagine the outcome of the movie but you're never sure about it. The best thing about the movie is the creepy atmo...( read more)sphere.
  • December 4, 2009
    uncliched shots, edited for speed and sometimes Dressed-to-Kill-like dreaminess, and the sex in this slasher film is as much a female fantasy as a male one; also, an incredible musical score by Band (maybe his best) and performed by the London Philharmonic (!)
  • November 20, 2009
    A really boring slasher film, The House on Sorority Row is one of the most slow paced film Ive ever seen, it has no soul, no emotion, nothing.
  • November 12, 2009
    i found this movie kinda boring .. it wasnt bad .. but i really had trouble paying attention to the plot and i ended up just really noticing the kills in between blah dialog and uninteresting characters
  • November 11, 2009
    i liked this movie a lot.
  • September 22, 2009
    These sorority girls are pretty stupid. They kill their housemother by accident (leaving a live bullet in the chamber), weigh her down w/ some towels (WTF?) to sink her in the pool & decide to throw a party anyways. In typical slasher fashion the girls are killed off one by on...( read more)e. Could it be the housemother who's returned from the dead & using her trademark cane as the murder weapon? Probably not but Im not going to tell you who it is even though I should to save you the time if you're ever going to watch this

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