MOVIE REVIEW: "Sorority Row" (2009)

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Bloody Disgusting

Synopsis: Cassidy, Jessica, Ellie, Claire, and Megan are very close friends, until an unsuccessful prank results in the death of one of them. In order not to risk their futures (both at university and in personal life), they decide to cover up what happened and move on as if nothing had happened. Very soon, they will regret it.

When a thriller that tries to dialogue with audiences by appealing to the old, well-known premise of "try to figure out who the killer is", you need to bring something new, or at least try to recycle the clichés of the genre in a different way... Here, it ends up being neither, failing with praise in its main purpose: to try to entertain the audience with minimally intriguing and / or frightening suspense.

Screen Queens

The whole premise of the movie smells of something that has already been told and retold in countless movies, the difference being that in other titles, there is one aspect or another that represents some news to what is being told or there is an improvement in clichés (which are usually well reused) and this is something that is not seen at any time in this movie... As much as it sometimes demonstrates (such as trying to build a "sisterhood" plot) some effort to do so.

The script is has a completely lagged structure. Everything gets worse because all the clichés it tries to reuse sound fake, absent of any creativity or originality and a completely sloppy narrative. It's amazing how many good opportunities the script misses (oddly enough, they threaten to exist... but never get born on screen) for not being able to perform better what they're trying to tell the viewer.

Icons of Fright

From top to bottom, all the characters are boring, poorly constructed, caricatured and totally uninteresting. The precarious cast (where no name is worth highlighting) is a prime factor in endorsing what I'm saying, because their acting is just as bad as a junior high school actor... A parade of inefficiency right before the eyes of the viewer (and sometimes they don't even try to blur how bad they are).

Nothing among them works and there is no connection among them or their actions. All this only tends to get horrible when the script tends to invest in an artificial suspense watered with horrible and totally inappropriate jokes that add nothing to the plot... Which, by the way, does not measure efforts to present extraneous situations throughout its projection.

2000's Movie Guide

Except for a few exceptions where the script can create a certain mood of tension with a decent cinematography (but that's not worth it considering the poor quality of the whole movie), the plot is a lazily shredded thriller with the least attractive pieces. Insistently, the narrative follows a line without a definite target and seems to want to complete just the time required to become a feature movie project intended to be shown in theaters.

The "big mystery" loses all its supposed impact by having an extremely predictable third act, and along that path, it is also built by scenes of poorly executed murders (and this should be one of the plot's high points) and some holes in the script. A flawed collection full of narrative nonsense that can only arouse nothing but frustration, partly because of director Stewart Hendler who does a totally forgettable job.

Sessão do Medo

Sorority Row just can be painful only to those who have watched it (so if you get the chance, run from it without looking back) and emerges as just one - among many - copies of bad movies about mysterious killers without very convincing purposes that justify their existence or the need for their actions.


MOVIE URL:
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/26688-sorority-row?language=en-US

MY RATING: A (2,5/10)



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