Haunting of Sorority Row, review
2007, **, TV-14
(ON DEMAND: Lifetime)
Starring: Leighton Meester, Kailin See and Lisa Marie Caruk
By: Meredith A. Iager
Being a part of a sorority is much more than meets the eye in this ridiculously cliché horror movie. Sorority life is very sinister, and some people only wanted to “fit in.”
New pledger Samantha Willows (Leighton Meester CW’s “Gossip Girl,” “Date Night”) wants to become apart of a new experience. She’s a freshman, away from home, and at college for the first time. Sam is also still with her geeky-cute-trustworthy, and (very much into the paranormal) high school boyfriend Oliver (Adrian Petriw), but feels as though she needs to experience sorority life.
Soon enough random spooky events begin to occur in the house, (temperature drops every early AM, strange dreams about her new roommate, Jane (Kailin See) etc). This still doesn’t frighten Sam, however, she consults her boyfriend who is a believer in ghosts and what-have-you. She begins to suspect something terrible might have occurred in the house.
Everything turns very south when previous years of sorority sisters have tragic deaths and all the new pledges in the house start to wonder, “What the hell is going on?”
Apparently, a year before something happened while one of the new “sisters” was pledging, and the 4 main gatekeeper sisters of the house decide to keep everything sworn to secrecy.
This is of course a goofy horror movie for teens, but I had to watch it, Lifetime movies are always somehow enticing, and interesting. The acting is crappy, more like a sit-com with some spooky effects.