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SINGAPORE: It's "Heathers" meets "Means Girls" meets "I Know What You Did Last Summer" meets "Scream". With a cast that boasts Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher playing sorority house mother), Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's daughter Rumer, and other random hot girls, "Sorority Row" sounds like fun. But it's not.
It all goes horribly wrong for a group of sorority sisters (Leah Pipes stands out as Queen Bee Jessica) when their seemingly harmless prank goes awry and one of their own ("The Hills'" Audrina Patridge) ends up dead. They cover up the crime but - of course - the girls begin to receive text messages from their dead friend eight months later.
This reimagining of forgotten '80s slasher flick "The House On Sorority Row" initially manages to be somewhat intriguing and almost suspenseful - especially with the requisite bloody body count, self-referential one-liners, and B-grade gratuitous nudity and gore.
Which makes it all the more disappointing that after all the shrieking, hollering and red herrings, the revelation of the killer's identity is all-too implausible and shamefully weak.
You'll laugh more than you'll scream, and we're not completely sure that's a good thing. - TODAY/sh
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