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The House on Sorority Row
On a dark and stormy night, on July 19, 1961, Dorothy Slater (Lois Kelso Hunt) gave
birth. Unfortunately, something was wrong with her
baby. Many years later, Mrs. Slater is the house
mother of Theta Pi, a sorority. Every year, Mrs.
Slater closes the house on July 19, but the girls
have no clue to why.
Mrs. Slater somehow
blames the doctor which delivered her baby for
something that went horribly wrong. She is very
bitter now, and is very strict with the sorority
sisters. One night, a sorority sister,
Vicki (Eileen Davidson in an early role), is caught
having sex in her bedroom, and Mrs. Slater slashes
her waterbed with her sharp-pointed cane.
The
seven sorority sisters staying at the sorority on the weekend of
their graduation come up with a joke to play on Mrs.
Slater. Vicki gets the gun her boyfriend gave her,
and the girls put Mrs. Slater's cane in the dirty
pool that Mrs. Slater hasn't cleaned for a very long
time. Vicki points the gun at Mrs. Slater, forcing
her to go into the pool and get her cane, but the
joke goes horribly wrong, and Vicki accidentally
shoots Mrs. Slater to death.
The girls then
decide to heave Mrs. Slater's body into the dingy
pool, while they throw their graduation party.
Although, soon, the seven discover that Mrs. Slater's
body is missing from the pool, and the girls then
start to mysteriously disappear one by one, as
someone takes revenge into their own hands and kills
them one by one, until Katie (Kathryn McNeil) is the only one left
to discover the horrifying secret.
This has to
be one of my most favorite '80's horror films ever
made. Unfortunately, this film didn't receive much
publicity, therefore making it underrated. The
soundtrack, composed by Richard H. Band, flows
beautifully, and sets the movie with an eerie mood.
It is planned that this will be released soon to DVD,
which I can hardly await. This is definitely a film which no horror movie fan can miss. Highly
recommended.
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