Sorority House Massacre
Sorority House Massacre
R | 01 October 1986 (USA)
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Upon joining a sorority, Beth is plagued by nightmares of a knife-wielding killer, when her past comes back to haunt her.

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generationofswine

Which one was this? I can't really remember. I do, however, know it was the movie where they hire a lot of women and require them all to take their clothes off.I recall a shower scene in there somewhere. But that could be a different movie exactly like this one.And then I remember the women running around screaming in undies that are really only worn in the bedroom.Was there a plot? Not really, it was just an excuse for nudity and undies.But, you already knew all of that when you sat down to watch this. Because, honestly in film making, they aren't really trying to pass it off as anything other than an excuse to film young naked breasts and you don't really get anything but that.So, why are you reading this? You know exactly what this movie is about. You knew that before you even clicked on this review.But, at least the review is as honest as the movie.If you are expecting more than that, there is something seriously wrong with you.

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Pumpkin_Man

This is the kind of bad 80's slasher flick that I love. It hit every cliché in the book (killer locked in an asylum and breaks out to go after his sister that he tried to kill a long time ago.) It is very clearly a rip-off of Halloween, which is one of my all time favorite movies. Maybe that's why I liked this so much. The only thing that was a little repetitive was the dream sequences. As a young girl, Beth escaped her brother Bobby who killed her family. Now, years later she joins a sorority. Bobby breaks out of the asylum and goes after Beth to finish the job. He'll kill anyone who gets in his way. If you love campy corny cheesy slashers from the 80's, you'll definitely love SORORITY HOUSE MASSACRE!!!

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Scott LeBrun

"Sorority House Massacre" does have some things going for it, although in the end it doesn't stand out from other slasher offerings during this time. (Not that some aficionados of the genre should mind all that much.) It's got blood, and it's got some breast shots, but it might not be exploitative enough to suit some tastes. What it does have is some good atmosphere, and occasionally it's slicker than expected, with a particularly tense scene involving a ladder. The nightmare sequences are reasonably well realized, and the girls in the story are not quite your typical slasher movie airheads. That doesn't mean that the dialogue isn't groan inducing at times, or that its delivery is any better. Still, when we watch something like this we come to expect a degree of crudeness and cheesiness, and this movie does succeed in that regard; it's even got a requisite dopey 80s style montage.Troubled girl Beth (Angela O'Neill) comes to visit her friends at a sorority house, while being plagued by visions of a stone faced psychotic creep, Bobby (John C. Russell), who'd murdered his family and has been locked up in a mental hospital. Naturally, the creep escapes, and Beth and her friends (and their boyfriends) will eventually be terrorized and slaughtered.There are enough amusing, titillating, and suspenseful moments to make this palatable viewing. Writer / director Carol Frank, in her only feature credit, does keep the story moving, and like so much of the Concorde catalogue, it clocks in at a very trim running time, in this case 74 minutes. The music by Michael Wetherwax is quite good and there are some efficient "prowling camera" sequences.If one simply can't get enough of this sort of thing, they could do worse than "Sorority House Massacre".Six out of 10.

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FilmFatale

Beth spends the weekend at a sorority house with some of her girlfriends. Unfortunately, she has no memory that this was her house when she was little and not only that - her brother slaughtered their entire family there! Of course, this is the weekend that bro decides to escape from the looney bin, steal a station wagon, and enjoy some sister bonding time (sound familiar?). Beth is having some pretty serious freakouts, too. The lime Jell-o line in the summary is from a hypnosis scene, BTW. Anyhoo - the girls' equally dumb boyfriends show up and they get in a series of ridiculous situations so that they can be killed. And since it's an 80s slasher, we need boobs, so there's a "trying on clothes while bad sax music plays" scene.I love 80s slashers. I really do. So I'm probably being a bit too lenient with Sorority House Massacre, even though it's a blatant ripoff of dozens of Greek house massacre movies and Halloween. It's not good, but it has a certain dumb charm to it in a way. Still, I'll probably never voluntarily watch it again and I can only recommend it to 80s slasher completists like myself.

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