{"id":42174,"date":"2024-09-04T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=42174"},"modified":"2024-09-03T18:14:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T22:14:41","slug":"sorority-row-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/04\/sorority-row-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorority Row (2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/SororityRow2009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42176\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/SororityRow2009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/SororityRow2009.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/SororityRow2009-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/SororityRow2009-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a>\u201cI Know What You Did Last Homecoming\u201d is the more apt description for \u201cSorority Row.\u201d It\u2019s a slick horror movie made in 2009 that feels like it was dropped right out of 1998 and I mean that mostly as a compliment. As someone that\u2019s had almost no faith in horror movies centered primarily on nepo babies and flavors of the week, Stewart Hendler\u2019s \u201cSorority Row\u201d is a shockingly good and entertaining slasher and whodunit that, while not the most thematically faithful remake, still manages to carve out its own niche in the massive library of remakes accrued in the early aughts.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cassidy, Jessica, Ellie, Claire and Megan are sorority sisters and true-blue friends to the end &#8212; until a prank gone wrong results in Megan&#8217;s demise. Rather than risk their futures by reporting the crime, the friends agree to cover it up. Cassidy and company come to regret the decision a year later when someone begins sending them videos of the night Megan died, and they fall victim to a deadly stalker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorority Row\u201d is virtually critic proof as it knows exactly what kind of movie it is from the outset. It\u2019s a fun and often silly slasher film that works hard to subvert any kind tropes that these movies are known for. You have to at least respect it for changing plot elements up time and time again. I loved the initial set up of the prank that goes horribly awry that results in a pair of fake outs, and ends in a horrible bloody twist. The script can often lean in to being much too silly for its own good, but it also thrives on some clever twists and turns as well as some great dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>The characters in this version are less final girls and more about getting shit done. In particular there\u2019s Leah Pipes, who is easily my favorite character, Jessica. As the alpha female (and massive babe) with a massive attitude and a big mouth, she really manages to carry the film on her back. She not only gets the best action scenes, but she has the absolute best clap backs of any character in a horror film. I\u2019m also a big fan of the fun walk on role by a shotgun wielding Carrie Fischer. Granted I didn\u2019t buy the killer\u2019s explanation too much, nor did I buy that the killer would be able to go back and forth holding all those very heavy specially altered tire irons.<\/p>\n<p>It all seems kind of inconvenient when you get down to it. But they\u2019re thankfully not hindrances on the momentum that\u2019s built over the course of the film. Nonetheless while \u201cSorority Row\u201d is by no means a slasher masterpiece, it\u2019s definitely one that can stand beside B tier slashers like \u201cUrban Legend\u201d and \u201cCut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI Know What You Did Last Homecoming\u201d is the more apt description for \u201cSorority Row.\u201d It\u2019s a slick horror movie made in 2009 that feels like it was dropped right out of 1998 and I mean that mostly as a compliment. As someone that\u2019s had almost no faith in horror movies centered primarily on nepo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[703,835,840,950,1087],"class_list":["post-42174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-mystery","tag-remake","tag-revenge","tag-slasher","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42177,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42174\/revisions\/42177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}