Mark Rosman‘s The House on Sorority Row (1982) and Stewart Hendler‘s Sorority Row (2009) feel shoved aside in their respective horror classes. Titles like Pieces, Black Christmas, and The Dorm That Dripped Blood get more frequent mentions when discussing pre-90s sorority or dormitory slashers. Remake debates rarely include Sorority Row in their reassessments of unfairly stigmatized 2000s horror revamps based on nostalgia biases (among other reasons). It’s interesting how both seem equally less popular despite their amassed cult followings after meager box office openings.
It’s almost like Hendler attempted to shake the original’s mojo by deeming Sorority Row an adaptation of Rosman’s screenplay Seven Sisters — the earlier iteration of what would become The House on Sorority Row. Don’t mind the trickiness because Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger write their re-imagining indebted to The House on Sorority Row. Maybe late-2000s remake fatigue led to...
It’s almost like Hendler attempted to shake the original’s mojo by deeming Sorority Row an adaptation of Rosman’s screenplay Seven Sisters — the earlier iteration of what would become The House on Sorority Row. Don’t mind the trickiness because Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger write their re-imagining indebted to The House on Sorority Row. Maybe late-2000s remake fatigue led to...
- 9/5/2022
- by Matt Donato
- bloody-disgusting.com
If you’ve ever seen a slasher movie, you’ve seen The House on Sorority Row, a movie that stalks its way through the motions with such tenacity that you can gauge its success by keeping a cliché checklist at the ready. And while the slasher boom had arguably crescendoed before its release in early 1983, director Mark Rosman’s tale of seven sorority sisters stalked by a vengeful killer works through the elements with just the right amount of finesse to ensure this Sorority Row is a haunt work stalking.
We’re in familiar waters from the get go: things are set in motion thanks to a tragic prologue set twenty years prior to events in the film. Here, a mother suffers the throes of childbirth while her suspicious doctor looks on with worry. Years later, the woman, Mrs. Slater (Lois Kelso Hunt), is a house mother to a pack...
We’re in familiar waters from the get go: things are set in motion thanks to a tragic prologue set twenty years prior to events in the film. Here, a mother suffers the throes of childbirth while her suspicious doctor looks on with worry. Years later, the woman, Mrs. Slater (Lois Kelso Hunt), is a house mother to a pack...
- 2/20/2010
- by Masked Slasher
- DreadCentral.com
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