Sorority Row is about secrets coming back to haunt you. When a prank goes wrong and a sister dies, the girls of Theta Pi decide to keep the secret and try to live normally. And they do… until the last night of college. A killer makes quick work of those who partook in the prank using what can only be described as a homemade Swiss Army tire iron throwing star. But the premise and characters are too familiar, and the film struggles to settle on a tone. Combine that with uncreative kills, too many loud noise jump scares, hit-and-miss humor, and a killer hampered by a hokey motive, and you’ve got the struggling film that is Sorority Row. It’s not downright terrible by any means, but it sticks too much to the formula. I can’t help but think some improvising would’ve taken the movie from just okay to awesome.
