Sorority House Massacre

Rating:
Summary: Eh...
Review: A former murderer escapes from a mental institution, and stalks teenage girls. This could outline "Halloween", "Slumber Party Massacre", or "Soroity House Massacre". All of these films share similarities. Aside from tbe films un-originality, it's not completely bad. I got this expecting to see a very cheesy movie, after seeing the even cheesier "Sorority House Massacre" 2 & 3 movies before; actually, this is the least cheesiest of the series, besides the extra speical, ten-minute "dress-up" montage. It also goes by alot faster than the first installment in it's sister-series, the slumber party movies, although it's only shorter by two minutes (it's 75 minutes all together); it goes by like that . It also lacks the scares and suspense of the first "Slumber Party Massacre" movie. What it lacks in scares, however, it makes up in good production values. The acting is not completely bad, and the conversation scripture is every bit as good as that of "Halloween". The dream sequence in the begining is pretty neat. But, altogether it's not exactly a great scary movie, not even for an 80's slasher pic. I can only reluctantly reccomend it, but suggest seeing the much more supierior "House on Sorority Row" instead...

Rating:
Summary: Eh...
Review: A former murderer escapes from a mental institution, and stalks teenage girls. This could outline "Halloween", "Slumber Party Massacre", or "Soroity House Massacre". All of these films share similarities. Aside from tbe films un-originality, it's not completely bad. I got this expecting to see a very cheesy movie, after seeing the even cheesier "Sorority House Massacre" 2 & 3 movies before; actually, this is the least cheesiest of the series, besides the extra speical, ten-minute "dress-up" montage. It also goes by alot faster than the first installment in it's sister-series, the slumber party movies, although it's only shorter by two minutes (it's 75 minutes all together); it goes by like that <snap!>. It also lacks the scares and suspense of the first "Slumber Party Massacre" movie. What it lacks in scares, however, it makes up in good production values. The acting is not completely bad, and the conversation scripture is every bit as good as that of "Halloween". The dream sequence in the begining is pretty neat. But, altogether it's not exactly a great scary movie, not even for an 80's slasher pic. I can only reluctantly reccomend it, but suggest seeing the much more supierior "House on Sorority Row" instead...

Rating:
Summary: Falls Short of Other 1980's Slasher Classics
Review: As a reviewer said before me, this movie certainly does take most of it's plot from that of "Halloween". A raving psychopath murdered his family 12 years ago with the exception of one of his sisters, Beth (or Laura as we later find out). Now 12 years later Beth has joined a sorority. The sorority house itself is actually Beth's old house and her moving in sets off her maniacal brother who then escapes from an asylum and hunts her down.

Sounds like a good plot, and it really is. Where the movie fails to deliver is in the suspense catagorie. It fails to deliver any really scary scenes, nothing that will make you jump anyway. The killing scenes are average but nothing spectacular and the flashbacks at the beginning are a bit confusing although it all comes together at the end. If your a fan of the 80's slasher flicks you might want to check this out but I'd recommend "Slumber Party Massacre" instead. 2 1/2 stars.

Rating:
Summary: Boff!
Review: Boring... go on with texas chainsaw, friday 13, body count, suspiria, nekromantik, schramm... Bad actors, bad plot, no gore, no blood, so nothing in this one.

Rating:
Summary: better than expected
Review: I didn't know what I would expect from this low budget 80's slasher...I thought it would be a bunch of college chicks getting naked and being murdered...for the most part it was, but there was also some plot to it, and a very freaky killer...much more interesting, and better than than its predessesor Slumber Party Massacre...a great film for a late night gathering...

Rating:
Summary: AN OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SLASHER FILM
Review: The gore effects are great for such a low budjet movie. It is about a young man who slaughters his family with a hunting knife but the youngest girl survives. Years later the house becomes a sorority house and the young girl (now a woman)goes to visit her friends at the house and she doesn't remember what happened but she begins having nightmares about what happened and her psycho brother with psychic abilities realizes she is there than he escapes and comes to the house and makes the massacre again. DON'T CONSIDER THIS A SLEAZE MOVIE BECAUSE IT IS NOT ! I strongly reccomend this film to every dedicated slasher fan who will take this classic for what it is.

Rating:
Summary: an honorable addition to the old-fashioned slasher
Review: This is one of those ALMOST HAD IT movies... SORORITY HOUSE MASSACRE is clearly an attempt by Concorde (Roger Corman's company) to cash in on the success of their SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE series and the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET franchise. Director Carol Frank (who worked on the original SLUMBER)does an admirable job at creating some suspense and giving the movie an eerie, creepy aura. Using haunting images of blood soaked, faceless dolls at dinner tables, blood dripping from the ceiling, broken marbles crashing and rolling across the floor in slow motion... Frank proves she has talent and had a vision of wanting to create something more than the average slasher film. Unfortunately, she just barely misses it by throwing in too common of a plot device (escaped mental patient returns home)and stopping the story for another 80's plot device (girls getting naked for no legitimate reason). It takes away the potential class this movies strives to offer. All in all, though, it's a frequently creepy and occasionally scary little movie which I WOULD recommend to slasher movie buffs. The campy sequel is another story....

Rating:
Summary: an honorable addition to the old-fashioned slasher
Review: This is one of those ALMOST HAD IT movies... SORORITY HOUSE MASSACRE is clearly an attempt by Concorde (Roger Corman's company) to cash in on the success of their SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE series and the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET franchise. Director Carol Frank (who worked on the original SLUMBER)does an admirable job at creating some suspense and giving the movie an eerie, creepy aura. Using haunting images of blood soaked, faceless dolls at dinner tables, blood dripping from the ceiling, broken marbles crashing and rolling across the floor in slow motion... Frank proves she has talent and had a vision of wanting to create something more than the average slasher film. Unfortunately, she just barely misses it by throwing in too common of a plot device (escaped mental patient returns home)and stopping the story for another 80's plot device (girls getting naked for no legitimate reason). It takes away the potential class this movies strives to offer. All in all, though, it's a frequently creepy and occasionally scary little movie which I WOULD recommend to slasher movie buffs. The campy sequel is another story....

Rating:
Summary: they did too good a job
Review: This movie is a farily typical slasher/late teen girl movie for the most part, but I think the director went a little overboard trying to give it a plot and depth. Rather than having the usual scantily clad women running around with a killer who showed up for no particular reason (see Sorority House Massacre 2 for that), this one tries to tie everything together in a thriller-like fashion. I am not sure the skills of any of the involved parties were really up to the task. Overall it is still an enjoyable movie. There is plenty of slashing and scantily cladness, and if you tune out the plot it is good mindless fun.

Rating:
Summary: they did too good a job
Review: This movie is a farily typical slasher/late teen girl movie for the most part, but I think the director went a little overboard trying to give it a plot and depth. Rather than having the usual scantily clad women running around with a killer who showed up for no particular reason (see Sorority House Massacre 2 for that), this one tries to tie everything together in a thriller-like fashion. I am not sure the skills of any of the involved parties were really up to the task. Overall it is still an enjoyable movie. There is plenty of slashing and scantily cladness, and if you tune out the plot it is good mindless fun.

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