The Haunting of Sorority Row
Deadly Pledge

Canada 2007
produced by
Scott Kennedy, Greg Gugliotta (executive), Fernando Szew (executive) for Highwire Pictures
directed by Bert Kish
starring Leighton Meester, Kailin See, Lisa Marie Caruk, Agam Darshi, Meghan Ory, Adrian Petriw, Jessica Huras, Lara Gilchrist, Carlo Marks, Elyse Levesque, David Flemming, Patrick Keating
written by Jed Seidel, Michael Vickerman, visual effects by Jeffery Scott Lando

review by
Mike Haberfelner

College freshman Samantha (Leighton Meester) is a pledge at a sorority - you know, one of these elitist girl clubs you and me would not want to be caught dead in -, but all of a sudden, the heads of the sorority in charge of torturing the newbies during pledge week start to drop dead like flies, and Sam soon finds out it all has to do with Jane (Kailin See), a pledge from last year who died from fright while locked inside a coffin. This threw the heads of the sorority into a panic, so they buried her body ... only  she wasn't dead but got buried alive ...

Now Oliver (Adrian Petriw), Sam's ex, figures she must have come back from the dead (or not quite-alive or something, the film is a bit hazy about these details) to have her revenge, and to everybody's horror (but not necessarily to the audience's surprise), spirit Jane turns out to be Sam's fellow pledge Jena (also played by Kailin See), who soon has her tormentors down to one, Leslie (Lisa Marie Caruk), the sorority's head bitch, and Jane has already got her in the coffin she (almost) died in a year ago to exact her revenge, when Sam interferes, calling upon the good still left in Jane by showing her the engagement ring her boyfriend once gave her ... As a result, Jane does not kill Leslie but simply leaves this plane of existence - but Leslie dies from shock anyhow ... or doesn't she and will come back from the half-dead one day, just like Jane did?

Run-of-the-mill made-for-TV horror featuring very little in terms of shocks, surprises or clever storytelling, instead it relies heavily on clichés and warmed-up plot-elements from better films. Add to this a story that isn't half as unpredictable as it should have been, a rather average cast and a directorial effort that never rises above purely functional and you've got ... no, not a perfect baddie, just a film that is so average in pretty much every way it's purely forgettable.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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