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Whereas most slasher movies choose elderly, saggy retirement community members as their victims, The House on Sorority Row turns the genre upside down by instead murdering a bunch of attractive sorority girls!

When the evil and poorly dubbed house-mother Mrs. Slater discovers that her sorority girls are planning a party, she's quick to cancel it. The girls respond in a perfectly reasonable manner: they force her into a swimming pool at gunpoint and pretend they're going to murder her. (In their defense, the band they had hired had a non-refundable deposit.)

You'll be surprised to learn that such a well thought out plan goes awry, and before you can say "I know what you did last summer" the girls are being picked off one by one by a mysterious killer with a clown obsession. Will any of them survive the night? Is Mrs. Slater really dead? And are we really meant to believe that a 23-year-old woman had a Garfield poster hanging up in her sorority dorm room? Find out when Mike, Kevin, and Bill riff the cult classic The House on Sorority Row!

Longest party ever put to film. Well, second longest after the Matrix: Reloaded rave.

Love the vintage video box design of the rifftrax poster above. One of the best yet.

Can anyone confirm if this one is uncut?

Rifftrax says it's 90 minutes and IMDB 91 (but who trusts IMDB?). So maybe one minute cut?

And I just looked at the poster again and I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a paperback book or not. Which would be really cool too.

Quote from: MrTorso on May 20, 2018, 07:43:53 AM
Can anyone confirm if this one is uncut?

There is some nudity in it. I assume if they were going to cut anything it would be that.

And yeah, that box art cover is pretty cool.

Also, this is a good riff. I usually don't enjoy riffs of slasher movies, but this movie was just so stupid.

This one is uncut. We made an edited version but there was some confusion and the guys wrote/recorded to the uncut. Since the funny was already made, it was released as is.

Not to come off as too much of a perv, but I think the uncut release is a great fit for this genre of movie: a slasher from this era needs some nudity to fit the formula. Having that removed would not just be prudish, but would also work against the "punish the lewd" message that underlies them - they are basically the morality plays of that time and require it.

Quote from: Thrashalla on May 20, 2018, 07:23:08 PM
This one is uncut. We made an edited version but there was some confusion and the guys wrote/recorded to the uncut. Since the funny was already made, it was released as is.

Well, I know I always feel very confused when there is no nudity in a movie. Especially a slasher flick.

I have been buying the Rifftrax from this year and they are missing something the ones from a few years ago and before used to have: Kevin's goofy songs. I hoped when I grabbed this latest, this would change. It didn't. Oh, I miss those.

This also was the most non-collegiate, non-sorority house building like, ever, which I found funny in and of itself. The swimming pool was scarier than the crazy old lady.

This was a tremendously fun Riff. Possibly because the movie was more watchable than many have been lately :P

I really loved this one (Thanks to Tubi for having about 80 Rifftrax to choose from!).
It really is sort of a classic of the genre. The thing that I found funniest about this one is that I was sure there was a big twist or reveal coming at the end, and I was so totally wrong. No twist, no real explanation and, in some ways, no real ending. I don't know why, but whether it's Sidehackers or Zindy, an ending that feels too abrupt and doesn't explain anything almost always makes me laugh. This was no exception!  And thus begins my official Halloween viewing for 2019.