Although it's fairly watchable, this film is pretty rubbish overall. There is a strong performance from the leading lady and she makes it more enjoyable but every other actors (and their characters) are sub-par. Of course, that wouldn't matter if there were some laughs or great special effects or a decent storyline however there are none of these either.As with most slashers it's quite predictable and the majority of characters do stupid things to get themselves into positions where they can be killed for the viewer's pleasure.The storyline is very unlikely (an accidental killing gets covered up by a group of sorority girls, with none of them thinking it better to go to the police to explain) and the ending is totally rubbish, silly and lacking suspense.For a one-off watch it was OK but not worth a re-view, apart from the slightly creepy scene in the attic in the last 10 minutes.

This is exactly the type of film that embodies the 80's slasher-horror genre.This film has great atmosphere, suspense, and some great kill scenes.While the mystery and the twists are easy to see coming, that is mostly the fault of the genre over-doing this in the thirty years since this movie was released. Spoilers:As someone who has seen a lot of horror movies, I fully expected the killer to be someone else other than the mother. Early on, I never assumed the pregnancy had ended in a stillborn baby or anything like that. The movie does a good job of trying to get the viewer to buy that it is the mother who is borderline psychotic, and had I not been fully expecting a twist, I would have followed that line of thinking.The acting is good enough for a movie like this. I think sometimes people expect Academy Award-winning acting out of horror movies and I think they miss the point. The acting isn't intended nor does it need to carry the film like in a drama.The death scenes are done very well. In the age before CGI and multi- million dollar horror films, the production crews of these films had to use their minds to figure out how to do the impossible; kill someone on screen. Movies like this and Halloween do the death scenes very well. Action-in-the-shadow is a simple yet effective technique, as are the quick shots of someone getting stabbed. The shots are quick enough so the mind can't register that you are in fact looking at a fake body or a fake weapon, but just long enough so you see the person getting it.I really can't fault this film for anything that other reviewers did. Maybe younger people, who didn't live in the 80's wouldn't appreciate something without top-notch effects or gallons of fake blood...I don't know.Anyway, this is a classic slasher-horror film, before the genre got stale (forever) with constant sequels and remakes.

Seven girls who are part of a sorority row,tired of their short-tempered matron,decide to played a joke on her.The joke goes bad and the matron is shot and dies.The girls hide the corpse in the pool and don't tell anything.There is a party on the sorority house at the night.Then,the girls are stalked and killed one by one.The plot is more clever than other slashers and there are a plot at the end.The murders are off-screen,but the gore is enough(like Jeanie's severed head in the WC)The acting is well,above all the final girl,the matron and doctor Beck.In short,one of 80's best slashers.

Mostly a typical slasher flick from the '80s. In this case, a strict house mother is presumably killed by her tenants, a bunch of nursing students. Sure enough, they start getting killed one by one. As can be expected, there's some nudity - plus some drinking; remember what they said in "Scream" - and the strict lady's history eventually gets revealed. Although "The House on Sorority Row" isn't anything great, it's certainly enjoyable, and that's what counts. Seeing that the movie got filmed in Baltimore, I now wonder how it would have come out had either of Baltimore's famous directors (Barry Levinson and John Waters) directed it.Anyway, nothing special, but entertaining. Am I the only one who thinks that one of the girls looked like Carrie Fisher?