I Suck At Sorority Row

Today, I watched the next movie in Karen's Netflix queue: Sorority Row. All right. Technically, the movie was in my queue because Karen is not a big fan of the horror genre. Too bad I suck at Sorority Row.

(The video below is a trailer for Sorority Row.)


For anyone curious, Sorority Row is a remake of the slasher film, The House on Sorority Row. The plot is simple: a group of sorority sisters set up a prank that goes horribly wrong. The prank is so wrong that one of their own sisters winds up dead. The remaining sorority sisters keep the death a secret until graduation day, when a mysterious killer goes after them for their misdeed. Aside from Carrie Fisher (of Princess Leia fame), the movie also stars Briana Evigan (of Step Up 2 fame), Rumor Willis (the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore), and Jamie Chung (of Real World: San Diego fame).

I'll be honest. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. And really... what's not to like about a horror movie where the victims are sorority girls? I'm not a big fan of sororities... or their male counterpart, fraternities. I tend to think of sororities and fraternities as precursors to unions... and I'm not exactly a big fan of unions either.

If you think about it, a sorority/fraternity is a group whereby seniority provides a sense of entitlement. There is a pledge (or dues) required to be in the sorority/fraternity. As well, the group seemingly protects its own members with an "us versus them" attitude.

I've never been one for being identified by labels. And I guess the concept of calling people friends just because you take a pledge to be a part of a group is a foreign to me. My friends are my friends for a reason, not because they happen to have pledged to join the same group as me. It's almost like saying the person who owns the same type of car that I do is my sister/brother. After all, it's a Saturn family, right?

Needless to say, the fact that the target of the slasher flick was a sorority may have biased my feelings toward the movie. Aside from that, I actually thought the movie was nicely done. It was a nice throwback to the old horror movies of old, much like how "Scream" was when that movie came out.