Sorority Row

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Sorority Row is a 2009 American horror film. Directed by Stewart Hendler, the film stars Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Rumer Willis, Jamie Chung, Margo Harshman, Audrina Patridge, and Carrie Fisher. Produced by Summit Entertainment and written by Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger. The film is a remake of the 1983 slasher film The House on Sorority Row.

Plot

Run by Mrs. Crenshaw, the college sorority Theta Pi is home to seniors and best friends Jessica, Cassidy, Ellie, Claire, Chugs and Megan who, despite Mrs. Crenshaw's best efforts, constantly throw wild parties. During one of these parties Megan discovers her boyfriend Garrett is cheating on her and with her friends help, decides to pull a prank on him as payback, faking her own death while making out with him. With help from the sisters, Garrett brings Megan out to a steel mill, intent on dropping her body down a mineshaft. After the sisters (jokingly) mention they need to release the air out of her lungs so her body won't rise to the top, Garrett stabs Megan with a Lug Wrench, actually killing her for real. Panicking, the group dumps Megan's body in the mineshaft, vowing never to speak of the events that transpired ever again.

Eight months later, during the party held after graduation, the girls all receive a picture sent to their phones: a hooded figure holding the bloody lug wrench Garrett used to kill Megan. As the girls become increasingly worried, Chugs reveals that after the incident, Garrett has been seeing a therapist and has developed a weird sense of humor. Jessica takes the lead and insists it is merely a prank by him and continue with the party. Megan's sister, Maggie, also arrives, wanting to honor her sister memory by attending the party. Later, Chugs leaves the party to go to her therapist appointment. While she is there, not knowing that her therapist was killed, she lies down and drinks champagne. As she tilts her head back to let the champagne flow down her throat the killer appears and shoves the bottle down her throat, before eventually slicing her throat with the Tool, which now has blades attached to the ends by the killer.

Later, a sorority girl named Joanna is killed by getting the tire iron shoved into her chin in the sorority shower after hearing about Megan's death. In the basement, Ellie finds Cassidy's blood-stained jacket (which the group had wrapped Megan's body in before dropping her into the mine) while Claire's boyfriend, Mickey, is murdered by getting the tire iron shoved into his head. The girls regroup and all receive a text message containing a clip of Megan's death and a message telling them to go to the mine shaft. Before leaving, Cassidy finds her boyfriend, Andy, and tells him to leave the party and that she'd meet up with him the next day. Driving to the shaft, the girls find Garrett. Thinking the obviously delusional Garrett is the one stalking them, Jessica runs over him when he tries to attack Cassidy with a mirror shard, discovering afterward Garrett has been receiving the same messages they have, proving he is not the killer.

After the girls return to the now empty sorority house, they receive a text message from Chugs's cell phone, telling them that she is dead. At the same time, Claire goes outside to turn off the broken hot tub filled with bubbles from the party. Suddenly, she realizes that someone in the bubbles is stalking her, and she runs back, only to find that the door is now jammed. While struggling to get into the house, Claire is dragged back into the massive amount of bubbles from the hot tub and shot in the mouth with her flare gun. Afterwards, Mrs. Crenshaw arrives. The girls confess to her at gunpoint that they are the ones responsible for Megan's death, and that the hooded killer is somewhere in the house. Mrs. Crenshaw tells the girls to lock themselves in a bedroom and to call the police while she searches for the killer. However, Mrs. Crenshaw is stabbed in the kitchen, leaving only Jessica, Cassidy, Ellie and Maggie.

While Maggie becomes trapped when the killer sets the house on fire with a Molotov cocktail, Cassidy and Jessica decide to check Mickey’s body for a cell phone to call for help (while Ellie hides upstairs) and run into Kyle, Jessica's boyfriend, who injures Jessica after getting into a fight with her. Cassidy and Jessica flee to an under-renovation bathroom where they find Megan's decaying corpse hanging in the shower. As Jessica checks the bathroom door, Kyle swings an axe through it, knocking her out. He catches Cassidy and tells her that Jessica told him they murdered Megan. He's then killed from behind by Andy, who turns out to be the real killer. Andy kills Jessica by stabbing her in the mouth with the tool before telling Cassidy that he just wanted to help her, killing everyone who knew about her involvement in Megan's death so they could never tell anyone else and reveal she was involved. Playing along with her mental boyfriend, Cassidy tells Andy that Ellie is in the basement, and while Andy goes to look for her, Cassidy fetches Ellie from upstairs and they try to run but are attacked by Andy. Telling Ellie to flee, Cassidy hits Andy with a lamp and tries to escape, but stops to help Maggie out of the burning house, allowing Andy to catch up and leave her dangling from a hole in the floor (while the fire is still active). As Andy prepares to finish Cassidy off, Ellie appears and blasts him with Mrs. Crenshaw's shotgun. He falls backward onto the burning floor, which collapses, plunging him into the fire-engulfed basement. With Andy dead, Ellie pulls Cassidy back up and the two save Maggie. The three girls escape from the burning sorority house, just as emergency personnel arrive onscene. (The song Emergency by Amiee Allen plays as the girls leave the house.)

Fifteen months later, Theta Pi is being renovated from the fire and Maggie is now a Theta sister. As the girls sing the Theta Pi song, a figure with a scarred wrist (Garrett) is seen holding a garden trowel.

Cast

• Briana Evigan ...Cassidy
• Leah Pipes ...Jessica
• Rumer Willis ...Ellie
• Jamie Chung ...Claire
• Audrina Patridge ...Megan Blair
• Julian Morris ...Andy
• Margo Harshman ...Chugs
• Carrie Fisher ...Mrs. Crenshaw
• Matt O'Leary ...Garrett
• Matt Lanter ...Kyle
• Caroline D' Amore ...Maggie Blair
• Maxx Hennard ...Mickey
• Nicole Moore ...Joanna
• Deja Kreutzberg ...Riley
• Ken Bolden ...Dr Rosenberg