Starring: Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Rumer Willis, Audrina Patridge, Carrie Fisher
Director: Stewart Hendler (first major feature)
Running Time: 1 hr 41 min
Release Date: Sept. 11, 2009
Budget: $16 million
Average Critics’ Score: 27%
“…this week’s most entertaining mainstream release.” Robbie Collin, News of the World
“An interminable mess of a film…” Stephen Holden, The New York Times
I’m not a fan of bloods, guts and gore, but even slasher fans won’t be amused with this mundane remake of 1983’s The House on Sorority Row. At a clichéd college party, a group of girls accidentally kill one of their sorority sisters in a prank gone wrong. Then a masked killer begins brutally offing them one by one, but the characters are so stereotypically sorority girl snotty that the audience doesn’t even care. High on unnecessarily provocative scenes and stale dialogue, Row is low on actual frights and humor. Out of an unknown cast, the two recognizable names – Star Wars’ Carrie Fisher and Willis, daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore – are disappointingly underused.
