- Directors: Mark Rosman
- Format: Colour, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
- Language English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Liberation Ent
- DVD Release Date: 12 Jan 2010
- Run Time: 91 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B002ITSAHG
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 108,402 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This movie is just a masterpiece, I mean, in the slasher movie category.
More serious than the others, it provides good acting, good music, some terrific moments and a good story ! What more can we ask ?
Oh yeah, just wanted to say : the end of the movie is absolutely scary !
I think this movie never got the success it deserved !
No doubt about the fact that the director was an assistant of Brian De Palma because we get to see how much he learned from his experience with this great film director.
A golden piece to add to your slasher DVD collection !
(I hope my English's understandable ! sorry, I'm French !)
More serious than the others, it provides good acting, good music, some terrific moments and a good story ! What more can we ask ?
Oh yeah, just wanted to say : the end of the movie is absolutely scary !
I think this movie never got the success it deserved !
No doubt about the fact that the director was an assistant of Brian De Palma because we get to see how much he learned from his experience with this great film director.
A golden piece to add to your slasher DVD collection !
(I hope my English's understandable ! sorry, I'm French !)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
In this clasic early eighties slasher a group of graduates decide to stay on in their sorority house for another week and hold a graduation party much to the displeasure of their house mother who was intending to have the house all to herself (something is up however, as we discover from a visit to the head doctors). After antagonising the sorority sisters once too often they decide to get their own back on the unreasonable house mother and things go horribly wrong leading to (an almost inevitable for films like this) cycle of nudity and murder!!
Those looking for sophistication in their films look elsewhere, anyone after a classic slice of eighties slasher mayhem need look no further as this is plenty of fun inspite of lacking any origionality whatsoever and sits proudly alongside My Bloody Valentine [DVD] [1981] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] and Happy Birthday to Me [DVD] [1981] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] as one of the better quality slasher pics of the era. The film boasts some great performances (and some truley dreadful ones!) an excellent score from Richard band brother of legendary low budget horror director/producer charles and an accomplished composer in his own right and is abley and competently directed by mark rosman director of the even more terryfying A Cinderella Story [DVD] [2004] and The Perfect Man [DVD] [2005] proof if it is needed that he is capable of delivering an audience true horrors!
The picture quality on this disc is the best i've seen and the film is presented in 16x9 widescreen with a mostly great sound mix (aside from a few instances of duff lip synching) and we get a commentary track, alternative ending and storyboard comparisons but the lack of any making of featurettes was a dissapointment and lost the release a star. Overall though this is still a better release than what was already available and is definately worth the invetment if your a fan.
Those looking for sophistication in their films look elsewhere, anyone after a classic slice of eighties slasher mayhem need look no further as this is plenty of fun inspite of lacking any origionality whatsoever and sits proudly alongside My Bloody Valentine [DVD] [1981] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] and Happy Birthday to Me [DVD] [1981] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] as one of the better quality slasher pics of the era. The film boasts some great performances (and some truley dreadful ones!) an excellent score from Richard band brother of legendary low budget horror director/producer charles and an accomplished composer in his own right and is abley and competently directed by mark rosman director of the even more terryfying A Cinderella Story [DVD] [2004] and The Perfect Man [DVD] [2005] proof if it is needed that he is capable of delivering an audience true horrors!
The picture quality on this disc is the best i've seen and the film is presented in 16x9 widescreen with a mostly great sound mix (aside from a few instances of duff lip synching) and we get a commentary track, alternative ending and storyboard comparisons but the lack of any making of featurettes was a dissapointment and lost the release a star. Overall though this is still a better release than what was already available and is definately worth the invetment if your a fan.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I'm not a fan of new slasher movies. They're cliched and never say anything new. From today's viewpoint, one could say The House on Sorority Row is somewhat cliched as well. The story is that there are a group of girls who have just graduated and are staying in their sorority house so they can hold their graduation party there. The house mother, Mrs Slater, however, has a policy that all the girls must be out by a specific date and is not too pleased when she finds they're still there. One of the girls talks the others into playing a prank on Mrs Slater to demonstrate that they won't be pushed around. The prank goes wrong, however, and Mrs Slater is killed. The girl who came up with the prank doesn't want to take responsibility for what happened so she talks the others into hiding the body in the swimming pool until the party is over. She claims that they will ALL get in trouble, not just those responsible for the prank (the law student girl should really have known that wasn't true). During the party, the girls then start getting picked off one by one - the question is, is it Mrs Slater back from the grave? Or is it someone else?
You have to keep in mind that this was one of the first slasher movies. The slasher movie conventions, so nicely laid bare for us in Scream, weren't written yet, which means that at the time it was made it wasn't cliched. At times, after the introductory flashback scenes, for instance, the film seems like it's going to be some kind of drama about college life. And the way Mrs Slater is portrayed deals with 'tradition vs the new'. When she was younger, women didn't behave in the way the girls in the sorority house did (not so blatantly anyway) and you get the feeling that she yearns for an earlier time, a time that she was comfortable with. So this film isn't just a series of increasingly gruesome deaths, it does have some depth to it as well.
None of the characters are 2-dimensional and the acting isn't all that bad considering it's a slasher movie.
Oh, and the ending is absolutely brilliant. It was clearly influenced by a certain scene in Halloween, but in my opinion was far more flesh-crawling.
So, all in all, this is one of the best slasher movies I've seen. It deals with themes that are there not just as an aside from all the deaths, and it deals with them quite sensitively. Mrs Slater was a sympathetic character and I felt sad for her when the prank went wrong - it's not often that I can say I feel much emotion during a slasher movie. So take a look at this film as a window into the beginnings of the slasher movie genre, but also as a window into the social changes afoot in the early 1980s.
You have to keep in mind that this was one of the first slasher movies. The slasher movie conventions, so nicely laid bare for us in Scream, weren't written yet, which means that at the time it was made it wasn't cliched. At times, after the introductory flashback scenes, for instance, the film seems like it's going to be some kind of drama about college life. And the way Mrs Slater is portrayed deals with 'tradition vs the new'. When she was younger, women didn't behave in the way the girls in the sorority house did (not so blatantly anyway) and you get the feeling that she yearns for an earlier time, a time that she was comfortable with. So this film isn't just a series of increasingly gruesome deaths, it does have some depth to it as well.
None of the characters are 2-dimensional and the acting isn't all that bad considering it's a slasher movie.
Oh, and the ending is absolutely brilliant. It was clearly influenced by a certain scene in Halloween, but in my opinion was far more flesh-crawling.
So, all in all, this is one of the best slasher movies I've seen. It deals with themes that are there not just as an aside from all the deaths, and it deals with them quite sensitively. Mrs Slater was a sympathetic character and I felt sad for her when the prank went wrong - it's not often that I can say I feel much emotion during a slasher movie. So take a look at this film as a window into the beginnings of the slasher movie genre, but also as a window into the social changes afoot in the early 1980s.
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soooo bad
i really wanted to like this, people have said its a good horror film, i wanted to see if it was true. It wasn't. Read more
Published on 8 April 2008 by Ms. F. I. Macdonald
An old time favourite!!!!!
This movie has become a CULT classic
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__it's so bad that you will actually like it !!..
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Published on 6 Jan 2005
I wanted to curl up and die watching it
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Published on 6 July 2004 by "reznor84666"
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House on Sorority Row is a stinking pus-fest of a film. That the film's producer, if there even was one, could evidently barely rustle up enough money for this awful cast of... Read more
Published on 9 Feb 2004
Beautiful, moving film
Buy, buy, buy! You'll laugh, you'll undoubtedly cry but above all you will leave this movie with an overwhelming feeling of life-affirmation. Read more
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