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... View MoreThis Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.
... View MoreAll of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
... View MoreThis movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
... View MoreA remake of the cult favorite The Sorority House Massacre (1986), this film does not hold water. It's a valid attempt but the slasher films of the 80's held a different methodology. A sub par plot when a prank goes awry and a sorority sister is left dead, the other girls try and masterfully cover it up. In the semi-signature of 1997 I Know What You Did last Summer someone knows the secret. As graduation happens the secret comes back and bodies start to pile up. The suspense of who is the killer is mildly done and really not hard to figure out. The performance of Rumer Willis (Ellie) was the shining theme in the film. A simple, albeit direct style screenplay, the music score did not hold true to the scenes. Even a badass Carrie Fisher could not save the film. The highlight for me was the style of the killings, it was creative and held direct link to the beginning of the film. I have to give it a 4 though for the style of performances from others
... View MoreLet me just start off by saying that I haven't watched the original movie, so I can't compared the two. That being said, let's start.So let's first assume that no human being would ever be as stupid as this girls were and that was all done for the sake of a horror movie. As horror movies go, this is more of the same slasher killer type. And it fits all of the stereotypes we tend to see in these kinds of movies. Hot chicks do something awful and then it comes to bite them in the butt. And then you find the typical characters you always find on this kids of movies. You have the good girl that always wants to do the right thing, you have the nerd, you have the whore, you have the "leader" and her sidekick. It's just more of the same typical things. The movie doesn't bring anything new, or different for that matter. The only thing that I can say sorta kinda saves this movie, is twist that it gives us when it comes to the murderer. I was not expecting that and I certainly didn't see it coming. That's the only thing I would save about this movie.Overall, nothing new nor exciting is brought to the table. Just more of your typical teenage slasher movie. If you are absolutely bored out of your mind, go ahead and give it a shot. Otherwise, if you have ever seen a teenage slasher movie before, you already knows what happens on this one.
... View MoreI would love to watch a movie about men eating rats rather than this movie. It's not bog-standard; it's abomination. And the reasons why are many..The female cast : They are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO UGLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. None of them can be humanly watched. Their faces, their bodies, ahhhhhh seeing them hurts your eyes and soul ! The plot : Seriously, how many times did you see this known by heart plot before? (they should have called it "I Know What You Did Last Scream" !). And to make it worse, there is no renewal whatsoever. Even the wrong points are the same (like the weakness of the killer's motive). One of the parody's definitions is "any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice". Accordingly, this is not a horror, this is a parody, yet – oh god – without laughing (see the horror of it ?!).The performance : Hideous is what comes to my mind to describe the performance in this ordeal. I thought at the start that this is about different characters in one hot situation, but they were all the same all along !! Moreover, did you notice how all the lead actresses show their deepest fears when someone removes a shower's curtain, nevertheless they don't ever panic while seeing a new murdered boy or girl ???!!!The bore : During the first half, I was saying to myself "I saw all of this before". And during the second half, I was saying "would I live long enough to see this movie's end ?!". These are 2 kinds of bore. And this movie, proudly and foolishly, has them together ! The idiocy : If you think about the whole sequence of the house, you'll hate this movie, their makers, along with yourself. For instance, all hell breaks loose, one boy is slain, and one girl is killed by electricity, though a girl and a boy are still making love, and a girl – at the attic – is waiting naked for a boy to make love with her ??? The head of the sorority, played by Carrie Fisher, didn't pay attention to all of this bloody clamor which was going on for long, unless very very late ?! While the killer is finally killed, he falls right in the basement to see that it's on fire too (how come ??!!). And if you just shut down your brain, and surrender to this movie as a brainless fun, then, can you point out to me; WHERE THE HECK IS THE FUN OF IT ??!!The nudity : It was unnecessary, unsightly, and another source of agonizing this movie presented.The so-called surprising last shot : I was between "Huh?" and "Hahahahahaaaaaa" !So what could be right and watchable ? Well, the directing was capable of embodying tension visually good in some moments. This worked with using more than one camera to shoot the dialogs, shaking the cameras in rarely into-the-point and no exaggerated way, plus using the reflections of the flames on the cast's faces during the end; which was artistically done. The dialog's lines proved some wiliness and efficiency ("Silicon floats", "When I buy a book, I read the last page, because I don't like surprises"). Along with Sorority Row, (2009) had long list of horror remakes like : Friday the 13th, The Stepfather, My Bloody Valentine, Don't Look in the Basement!, The Last House on the Left (they don't even name them differently !!). Though, I won't whine about the grossness of the remakes, sequels, prequels, spin-offs in the American cinema lately, this time I whine about one of them. Sorority Row isn't a remake of The House on Sorority Row (1983), however a remake of endless queue of easy slasher movies, with nothing fresh or amusing, to eventually be a perfect example of a movie with no originality nor entertainment !Sorority Row is repeated, predicable, too long, stupid, and has nothing to offer. I was imagining Tim Burton, Oliver Stone, or Quentin Tarantino doing the same stuff, it would have been at least less cheesy and more interesting. But No. Hollywood simply insists on recycling vomit, time after time, effortlessly. At one point in the movie, a girl who recently threw up, asks a boy to kiss her, and he loathes her; doesn't this remind you of something ?! As for me, his reaction powerfully reminds me with myself while the viewing...men eating rats is definitely better; at least it's new !
... View MoreWhile this movie might sound interesting on paper, the execution is, well, not especially interesting. If the killers look familiar to you, that's because it borrows from the Scream series. And there's a little "I Know What You Did Last Summer" thrown in as well. Only differences are that the metal hook here is a cross, instead of a pirate hook. And nobody gets run over. But this movie doesn't do those films any justice. In fact, it doesn't do itself any justice. These sorority sisters are one-dimensional, and there's no reason to care about them, individually, or as a group. Sure, you have a bitchy sorority sister, but is there a point to it? The film doesn't even try to be interesting, at least not until the final sequence, which did engage me. If only the rest of the film were just as good. Carrie Fisher appears in what seems like a throwaway role. ** out of ****
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