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The House on Sorority Row
1982/Color/92 Min./Vestron Video & Artists Releasing Corp. & VAE Productions/Rated R
Director........Mark Rosman (The Blue Yonder)
Screenplay......Mark Rosman
Music...........Richard H. Band (Puppet Master)
Producer........Mark Rosman & John G. Clark
Executive Producer.....
Live Party Music by "4 Out Of 5 Doctors"
Dramatis Personae
Kathryn......Kathryn MacNeil
Vicki........Eileen Davidson (Easy Wheels, Eternity)
Mrs. Slater..Lois Kelso Hunt
Dr. Beck.....Christopher Lawrence
Liz..........Janis Zido
Jeanie.......Robin Meloy
Diane........Harley Kozak (The Amy Fisher Story, Arachnophobia)
Morgan.......Jodie Draigie
Stevie.......Ellen Dorscher
Peter........Michael Kuhn
Rick.........Michael Sergio
Eric.........Charles Serio
Critique: This is a good meat and potatoes slasher/massacre movie, with effective use of scenery and lighting, good acting, direction and editing. Both the mood music and the pop music are a plus, and the props are scary (the harlequin, wooden ball, Jack-in-the-box). The pace and the killings are decent, in the suspenseful tradition of Friday the 13th.
* Blood * Sexual Situations * Violent * Brief Nudity *
* No Strong Language * Gory *
Plot Summary: On June 19, 1961 (a good movie to show on June 19th) Mrs. Slater lost her baby after a c-section went wrong. 20 years later the girls of Theta Pi are celebrating their graduation a day after they should have left(June 19th) when Mrs. Slater, now their tyrannical landlady, returns from her doctor and gives them one day to get out. Why is this the only house to close before the weekend? Mrs. Slater can be a bit difficult. Her doctor thinks that the slightest provocation could stimulate her latent violent behavior. When Slater bags one of her girls in bed with a man, she tears a whole in her waterbed with her cane. Vickie swears to kill Mrs. Slater then decides on a prank. The prank doesn't turn out as funny as planned and Mrs. Slater will never bother them again. Their best poker faces on, the girls go through with their graduation blowout at the house, but mysteriously guests are disappearing and each dissapearance is accompanied by the appearance of an antiquated child's toy. On top of this, Mrs. Slater's very dead body has moved from the pool to the attic. And whoever that is out in the pool ain't swimming!
When Kathryn calls the number on Mrs. Slater's emergency tag, Dr. Evans comes to help, or, is it really in his best interest to help?
Who's Eric, anyway? And what is all that junk in the attic? Whoa, the showdown is scary!
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