A group of college students buy the former home of a serial killer who massacred his own family as their new sorority house. The price is right, but buyer beware! Soon the sorority sisters are being knocked off one by one. Has the killer returned from the dead? Is it the creepy neighbor from across the street? Or is it someone else altogether?
After watching the utterly terrible Cheerleader Massacre and the first Sorority House Massacre, spending the time to watch this sequel was a difficult decision to make. But Sorority House Massacre turns out to be a pleasant surprise in a franchise of mostly fairly disappointing films. Like many slasher films, Sorority House Massacre 2 relies heavily on attractive young women wandering about nude or semi-nude for large portions of the film. Unlike many slasher films, this one could have actually relied on something else instead for a change because it is actually a decent film.
Sorority Massacre 2 dispenses with purposeful cheese and makes an attempt at a legitimately scary movie. While it might be a bit much to say it is terrifying, it succeeds in creating a creepy atmosphere as the backdrop for a movie that is half traditional slasher flick and half mystery. It leaves you uncertain who the killer is till near the end, and allows you to wonder if any of the characters will survive and if so, who. It also contains some great scenes like the sisters visit to the basement, the bloody bathtub scene, and the attic scene where it suddenly becomes shockingly apparent whodunit.
Sure, there is some occasional poorly done effects, the fighting scene between the final girl and the killer at the end is about as convincing as something out of a spaghetti western, and the final scene just has to make you chuckle a bit. But after all, that kind of stuff is what puts the charm in this kind of old slasher flick.
3.5 bloody bath tubs out of 5
Unrated: contains excessive nudity, violence, frightening scenes.
Watch the Sorority House Massacre 2 trailer.
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