Sorority Row (2009)

After a revenge prank gone wrong results in the death of one of their number, a group of sorority sisters resolve to cover up their friend's death and go on with their lives. Skip forward eight months and would-be scapegoat Cassidy (Briana Evigan) is looking at a bright future with valedictorian boyfriend Andy (Julian Morris) while cover-up mastermind Jessica (Leah Pipes) clings to her ambitions of marital bliss with Senator's son Kyle (Matt Lanter). Alas, it soon becomes apparent that their friend's death isn't much of a secret when the Theta Pi receive threatening communications from the deceased and bodies start piling up.

"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.