Friday, April 30, 2021

The House on Sorority Row (1982)

Nowhere near as good as it could have been (though equally nowhere as bad as well!) A group of college girls want to hold their leaving party at the house they live at with the tyrannical Mrs Slater (Lois Kelso Hunt). Mrs Slater is eager for the girls to leave as soon as possible so the girls decide to play a prank on her. As the prank involves a gun and getting her to fall into a rancid pool its a rather mean prank. Especially as she dies during it...

Despite causing their landlady's apparent death, the girls party continues as planned (which is probably the funniest part of the entire film). Then the girls start disappearing one by one, killed off by a largely unseen assailant. Then the only one left is Katharine (Kate McNeil) - who to be fair is the only one with any the slightest inkling of what is going on. But then she gets drugged and left as bait...

Full of cliches and yet another 1980s slasher horror with plenty of gore. The acting is fairly mediocre and most of the characters loathsome though the film isn't without it's good points and unintentional humour, just that you have to wait some time for it,