Sorority Row

Cassidy, Jessica, Ellie, Claire, Chugs, and Megan are sorority sisters of Theta Pi at Rosman University. At a party kicking off their senior year, the girls decide to pull a prank on Garrett, Megan’s boyfriend and Chugs's brother, as revenge for his infidelity. In the middle of sex with Garrett, Megan fakes her death. Garrett and the girls bring her to a lake, with the girls presuming to dump her body. As the girls deliberate what to do, Garrett stabs Megan in the chest with a tire iron, resulting in her actual death. Garrett and the girls cover up the incident and dump Megan's body and the tire iron in a nearby mine shaft. They make a pact to keep quiet about the incident, though Cassidy and Ellie are reluctant to take part.

Eight months later, the girls are graduating from college. At a graduation luncheon, the girls all receive the same text message on their phones, which shows a robed arm holding a bloody tire iron. Suspicion falls on Garrett as the sender, but Chugs insists he's changed after the incident and is not mentally competent. Maggie, the young sister of Megan, arrives at the luncheon with the intent of honoring her late sister's memory.

While awaiting an appointment with her therapist, Chugs is murdered by a mysterious killer wearing a hooded black robe and wielding a spiked tire iron. Later, in the sorority's shower room, Claire and Jessica talk about the Megan incident. Joanna, a sorority girl who overheard their conversation, is murdered by the same killer. That night, at the sorority’s big graduation party, Claire’s boyfriend Mickey is murdered by the hooded killer, which Ellie witnesses.

Cassidy, Claire, Jessica and Ellie regroup and all receive a text containing the video of Megan's death and a message demanding they come to the steel mine, or the video will be sent to the police. When the girls arrive at the mine shaft, they encounter Garrett, who has cut his wrists. Thinking Garrett to be the killer, Jessica runs him over with her vehicle. However, they soon learn that Garrett had been receiving the same texts as them. Ellie fears Megan is still alive and is seeking revenge. To confirm Megan’s death, the girls lower Cassidy down the shaft to check, but instead of finding Megan's body, she finds a message written in blood declaring, "Theta Pi must die".

Back at the empty sorority house, the girls receive a text from Chugs' phone that says she is dead. Claire is then murdered by the killer. While searching the house for Kyle, Jessica’s boyfriend, the girls bump into Maggie and their housemother, Mrs. Crenshaw. They come clean to Mrs. Crenshaw about the incident with Megan, and Mrs. Crenshaw tells the girls to lock themselves in a bedroom and call the police while she searches the house. A distressed Maggie, thinking her sister is still alive, leaves the room in search of her. After a game of cat-and-mouse with the killer, Mrs. Crenshaw is killed. Cassidy and Jessica go to look for Mickey's body in order to retrieve his cell phone, telling Ellie to run if something happens. Maggie is confronted by the killer, who throws a Molotov cocktail in her way and sets the house on fire.

Cassidy and Jessica run into Kyle, who injures Jessica after getting into a fight with her. Cassidy and Jessica flee to an under-renovation bathroom where they find Megan's decomposing corpse hanging in the shower. Kyle finds the girls and knocks Jessica out. Before he can harm Cassidy, Kyle is killed with an axe by Andy, Cassidy's boyfriend, who reveals himself to be the killer. Andy, who first learned about Megan’s death through Ellie, believed the possibility of a happy future with Cassidy was threatened by the risk of the girls being found out, so he decided to kill everyone who knew of Megan's murder. Andy then kills Jessica and tells Cassidy that Ellie must die, too.

Cassidy tricks Andy into thinking Ellie is in the basement. While Andy goes off in search, Cassidy finds Ellie upstairs. The two girls try to escape but are attacked by Andy, who is hurt at Cassidy’s betrayal. Urging Ellie to flee, Cassidy hits Andy with a lamp and nearly makes it out of the house, but stops when she hears the cries of Maggie, who is trapped in the flames. Cassidy tries to rescue her but is impeded by Andy. In the struggle, the floor underneath Cassidy crumbles and she is left hanging over the burning basement. As Andy is about to finish her off, Ellie appears and shoots him with Mrs. Crenshaw's shotgun. The floor collapses out from under him and he falls to his death. Maggie and Ellie are able to save Cassidy and the three survivors flee the house just as the fire department and police arrive.

Fifteen months later, the Theta Pi house is being renovated from the fire and Maggie is inducted into the sorority. As the girls sing the Theta Pi song, a man holding a garden trowel comes into view. The man’s wrists show slashing marks, implying Garrett is still alive.

Mark Rosman wrote a screenplay titled Seven Sisters, which he would then make into the 1982 slasher film The House on Sorority Row.[3] Producer Mike Karz and Darrin Holender acquired the rights to the film and hired writers Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger to update it.[3] In creating a new story based on the original screenplay, the producers largely kept to the same story, "a morality tale about young women who make bad choices that come back to haunt them",[4] but insisted that more humor be injected into the script.[3] The finished script impressed Rosman, who came on board the film as an executive producer.[3]

Principal photography began on October of 2008 in the Pittsburgh area.[4] Although the setting for the film is not specified, producers wanted to take advantage of Pennsylvania state tax credits and the strength of local film crews.[4] The film was mostly shot at night in Homestead, one block from the Carnegie Library of Homestead, where about 10 houses were dressed to resemble a sorority row.[4][3] The graduation scene for the fictional Rosman University (named after Rosman) was shot outside of Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood.[4] Interior scenes of the Theta Pi sorority house were filmed on built sets at a warehouse near Crafton, Pennsylvania.[4] The film's makeup effects were done by Gino Crognale.[5][3]

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The film's soundtrack was released by E1 Music on August 31, 2009, and featured music by artists such as Shwayze, Ladytron, Lykke Li, Aimee Allen, and Camera Obscura, among others. The album received 2.5 out of 5 stars from Allmusic, with the review stating: "Of the 15 tracks, only a few are even remotely memorable (Ladytron's "Ghosts", Camera Obscura's "Tears for Affairs", and Dragonette's "booty" anthem "I Get Around" come to mind), but there's hardly a dull moment".[7]

A teaser trailer premiered at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International along with the main cast discussing the film's premise and how it felt working with the crew.[8] Sorority Row was released on September 9 in the US and September 11 in the UK.[9][10]

Audrina Patridge and Rumer Willis were each nominated for 2009 Teen Choice Awards in the category Choice Movie: Actress Horror / Thriller.[24]

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