Starring Briana Evigan, Margo Harshman, Rumer Willis, Jamie Chung, Leah Pipes, and Carrie Fisher
Directed by Stewart Hendler
Directed by Stewart Hendler
First off, how weird is the placement of the ladies in the poster to the left? They're kinda sorta laying atop one another...just strikes me as weird.
Secondly, let me list a few of the character "names" from the credits: Bra-Clad Sister, Trampoline Sister, Amazed Senior Guy, Over-It Sister, Thwarted Guy, Already Drunk Sister, Slutty Sister, Hot Guy, Sea Pig, Naive Girl #1, Naive Girl #2, Stoned Dude, Wasted Guy. I'm guessing Slutty Sister is the chick who showed her boobs, but with the creative names above, why not just call her "Chick with Unattractive Bosom"?
The story here is simple...five sorority sisters decide to pull a prank on a guy by pretending that the guy date-rape drugged one of their fellow sisters to death. They drag the guy and the "dead" sister out to some dump where the guy, in a state of panic, actually kills the sister who was pretending to be dead. Desperate to keep things under wraps in order to save face and maintain a happy life, they decide to ditch the body in a giant hole in the dump. This being a horror/slasher flick, someone finds out about the crime and enacts revenge.
And most of that revenge is via shoving objects into girls' mouths...every sorority girl that died did so because of something being shoved into her mouth. The phallic/oral sex symbolism of this is not lost on me...why nearly everyone needed to die this way, I don't know; it becomes mind-bogglingly boring. Sure, the first kill was actually pretty nifty, but after that it just got old. None of the murders were remotely surprising...you could see a bunch of them coming from a mile away. And the reasoning behind the killer's motivation for this was ridiculously stupid.
That being said, there's something to be said for not being bored here...at times, I appreciated the odd shots that the director set up and the funky lighting and the grainy look. Then, at other times, I was frustrated by these same things.
Plus (and this'll sound completely sexist and awful), if you've got a movie about sorority girls, is it wrong to expect it to contain hot girls who aren't afraid to show some skin?
Secondly, let me list a few of the character "names" from the credits: Bra-Clad Sister, Trampoline Sister, Amazed Senior Guy, Over-It Sister, Thwarted Guy, Already Drunk Sister, Slutty Sister, Hot Guy, Sea Pig, Naive Girl #1, Naive Girl #2, Stoned Dude, Wasted Guy. I'm guessing Slutty Sister is the chick who showed her boobs, but with the creative names above, why not just call her "Chick with Unattractive Bosom"?
The story here is simple...five sorority sisters decide to pull a prank on a guy by pretending that the guy date-rape drugged one of their fellow sisters to death. They drag the guy and the "dead" sister out to some dump where the guy, in a state of panic, actually kills the sister who was pretending to be dead. Desperate to keep things under wraps in order to save face and maintain a happy life, they decide to ditch the body in a giant hole in the dump. This being a horror/slasher flick, someone finds out about the crime and enacts revenge.
And most of that revenge is via shoving objects into girls' mouths...every sorority girl that died did so because of something being shoved into her mouth. The phallic/oral sex symbolism of this is not lost on me...why nearly everyone needed to die this way, I don't know; it becomes mind-bogglingly boring. Sure, the first kill was actually pretty nifty, but after that it just got old. None of the murders were remotely surprising...you could see a bunch of them coming from a mile away. And the reasoning behind the killer's motivation for this was ridiculously stupid.
That being said, there's something to be said for not being bored here...at times, I appreciated the odd shots that the director set up and the funky lighting and the grainy look. Then, at other times, I was frustrated by these same things.
Plus (and this'll sound completely sexist and awful), if you've got a movie about sorority girls, is it wrong to expect it to contain hot girls who aren't afraid to show some skin?
The RyMickey Rating: D
1. There were only TWO naive college girls???
ReplyDelete2. Yes, it is still wrong. :-p
i'm slightly skeeved
ReplyDeleteAnon - It's all true...there's some serious oral fixation thing going on with the director/screenwriter...
ReplyDeleteSorry to skeeve you out...don't watch the movie (not that you would...).
Oh Jeff, they're ALL the slutty sister!
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