When Garrett cheats on girlfriend Megan, her sorority sisters decide to pay him back by pretending that she is dead, to the extent that they take the "body" off to a remote site to dispose of it. When Megan accidentally moves, the spooked Garrett reacts by driving a tire iron into her chest, leaving the sisters with the problem of what to do with the body. Cassidy wants to report it to the authorities, but alpha uber-bitch Jessica browbeats the others into dumping Megan's body (and the tire iron) down a mineshaft. At the graduation party eight months later, the girls are texted a photo of a hand grasping a tire iron. As they begin to die one by one, the question is whether Megan has come back from the dead, or is there another explanation? Sorority Row is a perfectly serviceable slasher movie, fuelled by a) who gets it next (and how), and b) who is doing it. If this is the sort of movie you enjoy, then you'll enjoy this one.

There was an aspect I particularly liked, and that was the look of the movie - it is beautifully photographed - points awarded for cinematography, because it is filmed with much greater care than is usually the case for this sort of movie.

Two elements which pleased me less, though. One is the answer to who is doing it. This struck me as the least probable possibility, with a motive which is less than credible.

The other - and please read no further if you don't like spoilers, because this is a biggie - is the last five minutes. The climax is proceeding very nicely, and all looks lost, when help comes from an unexpected quarter. This turns out to be Ellie, played by Rumer Willis. Now Ellie has spent pretty much the entire movie as a snivelling, whimpering, hysterical mess yet, in this final few minutes, she becomes a Rambo-lite lean, mean killing machine (because she'd do anything for her sisters, you understand), in one of the biggest and least believable character switches in the memory of this particular moviegoer.

Hollywood seem to have something of a talent for churning out the most derivative, generic, cookie-cutter films in existence and SORORITY ROW is a case in point. Ostensibly a remake of a little-known slasher from the '80s, it turns out to be another completely unmemorable reworking of the hoary old I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER storyline.

A group of sorority sisters (the usual clichés: the sensitive one, the brash one, the slut, the nerd) accidentally kill one of their own and cover up the crime. Whaddya know, years later somebody starts killing them off one by one with the silliest weapon I've seen to date in a slasher: a tyre iron, of all things.

Directed by a no-name with a fine-line in copying other people's work rather than coming out with a style all of his own, SORORITY ROW is a complete bore. The characters are intensely irritating, and the script is alive with the same old tired lines and situations. Even for horror fans it's a letdown, with lame stalk 'n' slash sequences playing out in ways that are invariably predictable. Yet another modern "horror" film I'm glad I didn't pay to watch...

Sorority sisters Megan (Audrina Patridge) and Jessica (Leah Pipes) set up Megan's ex-boyfriend/Chugs' brother Garrett (Matt O'Leary) for revenge. They gather the other sisters Cassidy (Briana Evigan), Ellie (Rumer Willis), Claire (Jamie Chung), and Chugs (Margo Harshman) to pretend to dump Megan's body in a lake. The girls continue to pretend and Garrett stabs Megan in the chest to let the air out actually killing her. Jessica convinces the group to dump the body and the tire iron in a mine shaft. Cassidy disagrees so they wrap the body in her jacket. Eight months later, the girls are graduating. Cassidy barely tolerates Jessica and has Andy (Julian Morris) as her boyfriend. They all receive a picture of somebody holding the tire iron. Megan's younger sister Maggie (Caroline D'Amore) shows up. Then a hooded figure starts killing people with an implement shaped like a tire iron.

The girls need time and space to set up the characters better. Leah Pipes does the mean girl very well and put herself above all the rest. Briana Evigan is functional as the lead heroine but she needs to be a better foil to Jessica. The other actresses can do no better than 2 dimensional cardboard cutouts. Rumer Willis is reasonable as the brainy geek. The premise is not that original but it has good potential as standard horror fare. It just never rises above being a weak B-movie. There are also way too many characters to keep track of and without better characterization, it's questionable why the audience should care.