A group of sorority sisters try to cover up the death of their house-sister after a prank gone wrong. Cassidy, Jessica, Ellie, Claire and Megan are sorority sisters and true-blue friends to the end. That is until a prank results in Megan's death!! Rather than risk their futures by reporting the crime, the friends agree to cover it up. Cassidy and company come to regret this decision a year later!! Someone begins sending them videos of the night Megan died and they become the victims of a deadly stalker!! This college-set slasher bloodbath is full of gory deaths by impalements. Sexual and erotic elements are graphic and lurid, beginning with a drugged-up "date rape" situation. Continuing with casual references to sex as a tool for revenge, status, exploitation and even commerce such as trading sex for pills. Drinking is frequent and one victim is killed with a shattered liquor bottle. College level "education" is depicted as one alcohol, sex and drug-saturated party after another. Profanity is the movie's least raw element but you can still expect plenty of uses of language.
In a 2012 interview, director Stewart Hendler said that he knew nudity was a major staple of the slasher movie genre. For teenage boys growing up in the '80s, horror movies were the prime place to get a T&A fix and he wanted to pay homage to that. "Certainly, making an R-rated horror movie, you have that expectation," he said. Problem was, instead of casting actresses for the lead roles who had no issue being naked, producers cast actresses who refused to remove their clothing. So Hensley had to resort to hiring background extras and bit players to supply the nudity. One of the main stars Leah Pipes who plays Theta Pi queen bee Jessica said that she is "all for showing boobies to the audience,” But she didn't want to be nude because she's flat chested. "So we had to hire other women with beautiful breasts," she said. But she joked that she still did her part in helping provide nudity.
In one scene she makes a female underclassman drop her towel and reveal her body just to assert her own authority. "For you, for all of you," she said referring to fans of naked women. "So you're welcome." Some of the stars did perform scenes where their characters were supposed to be naked but they don't show anything. In a shower scene, the camera films Jamie Chung from behind and above the waist only. In a Jacuzzi scene strategically placed bubbles hide Chung's body. She wouldn't even disrobe for this scene. She wore a nude bodysuit under the water. 2* (I didn’t like this movie)
101 min, Horror directed by Stewart Hendler and written
by Josh Stolberg, Pete Goldfinger and Mark Rosman with Teri Andrez, Adam
Barrie, Megan Wolfley, Robert Belushi, Briana Evigan, Zack Garrett,
Margo Harshman, Rumor Willis, Jamie Chung, Leah Pipes, Adrian Patridge,
Matt O’Leary, Julian Morris, Debra Bordon, Matt Cannon.
Note: Imdb 5.1* out of 10* with 38,856 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 25% with 81 critic reviews 32% with 150,000+ audience scores, Common Sense Media Charles Cassady Jr. 1* out of 5*, age 18+, Amazon 4.4* out of 5* with 526 ratings, Letterboxd 2.4* out of 5* with 13 reviews, Metacritic 24 out of 100 with 11 critic reviews, 8.5 out of 10 with 255 user scores.
Mistakes: When the girls and Garrett are driving to the mine shaft Jessica says "Look at me" three times. The second time her mouth does not move. When Jessica is killed her eyes are open. When the shot pans out her eyes are closed. Then when the killer removes the tire iron from her mouth her eyes are open again. Maggie is barefoot when she is running around the house. However, when Maggie, Cassie and Ellie leave the house she is wearing boots.
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