"Sorority Row" is a deeply unserious slasher movie that favors one-liners and makes its characters so infectiously bitchy that you're not sure if you wanna see them die horribly or continue fight among themselves while ancillary characters bite it. If you think about the contrived narrative and the dumb decisions the characters make for more than a minute you're likely to start punching holes in the movie, but why would you want to when it's so much fun in its own skin-deep way? Leah Pipes is a standout as the ruthlessly ambitious Jessica, whose dedication to sorority sisterhood hinges entirely on her own ambitions and ultimately plunges her and her friends into very deep trouble when she makes it clear that reporting the movie's tire-iron-wielding killer to the authorities simply won't cut it. Meanwhile, Briana Evigan is great as Cassidy, an unexpectedly strong final girl who elevates an otherwise shallow movie. Throw in some creative kills, an appropriately grand finale and dialogue you can't help but eat up and this is just a very fun slasher movie. Hardly "Halloween", but as knowingly camp slashers go, it's one of the good ones.
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