That’s right. Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Robert Hoffman, Briana Evigan, Rick Malambri, Sharni Vinson, along with SYTYCD/DWTS dancers, etc. are attending/ making appearences at the first ever DizzyFeet! (A foundation founded in 2009 which helps underprivileged young people realize their dream of becoming professional dancers and to support, improve, and increase access to dance education in the Unites States.)

According to Channing Tatum Unwrapped:

Jenna Dewan-Tatum tweeted yesterday that she would be both presenting and performing with “So You Think You Can Dance” dancers and more at the upcoming Dizzy Feet Foundation benefit, and today, she announced that Chan would also be presenting with her.

Dizzy Feet Foundation was founded in 2009 by producer Nigel Lythgoe, director Adam Shankman, “Dancing with the Stars” judge Carrie Ann Inaba and actress Katie Holmes to help underprivileged young people realize their dream of becoming professional dancers and to support, improve, and increase access to dance education in the Unites States.

Guided by a board consisting of some of the most illustrious names in the American dance community, the foundation’s mission is threefold: (1) to provide scholarships to talented students studying at accredited dance schools, studios, or institutions; (2) to establish national standards for dance education and an accreditation program for dance schools in all of the major styles of dance; and (3) to develop, provide, and/or support dance education programs for disadvantaged children through and with local community organizations.

Dizzy Feet’s first-ever fundraising gala, CELEBRATION OF DANCE, is taking place at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California on Sunday, November 29th 2009 at 3PM.

All of the leads from ‘Step Up‘, ‘Step Up 2: The Streets‘, and ‘Step Up 3D‘ will make appearances at the event. As I mentioned earlier, Jenna and Chan will be presenting and Jenna will also perform.

Jenna tweeted…“Buy tix now to support dancing and come say hi to us!”. I also learned that the event will not be televised, so if you want an opportunity to give to a good cause and see Chan and Jenna, please visit Ticketmaster.com to get your tickets TODAY!!!

Source- Channing Tatum Unwrapped

Will you attend? I wonder if Adam will make an appearence as well?

Sorority Row (2009)

Running Time: 101 Minutes

Rated: R

Going against all odds here, I say its quite entertaining when hanging around the idea that sorority girls are getting humped and slashed through every course of this film. Take a side note that this is just the joke of a observation. Like many slasher flicks, there are twists, sex, and blood. All three elements necessary to fondle the crowd in excitement. Or at least keep them busy enough from looking at their cellphones or making out with their pals. In all regards it does but many horror “tricks” appear in this film like a bag of halloween candy just waiting for a 8 yr old to snatch it all out. It sticks and can sometimes leave you feeling stupid. Like “did I fall for that?”. And the answer is, yes you did.

Like every “cool” slasher flick, this film needs hot 20 yr old women who can scream and relatively act. A lot of them are well known in the teen circle. Cassidy(Briana Evigan), Jessica(Leah Pipes), Ellie(Rumer Willis), Claire(Jamie Chung), and Charlene Chugs(Margo harshman) are all sorority sisters in the Theta Pi home. All bimbos who have dudes who are probably related to Brett Novak are playing a prank. One that requires Megan(Audrina patridge) to play dead. The prank was supposed to scare the crap out of Garret(Matt O Leary). Well it did as you can see him cry his way in the car while the girls sneakingly laugh at him. The prank was a backstab at Garret who supposingly cheated on Megan. That seems a little to far girls…but then, thats what college girls do.

Things obviously go wrong as the mine scene takes the form of I Know What You Did Last Summer. Hiding the body because Garret accidently killed her with the tire iron. And now the sisters take a hypocritical oath of not telling anyone and drops the body in a well. Forward months later when its graduation and back to more wild college parties. And then a mysterious text message leads to a number of kills and everything you seem to left behind becomes a moral dilemma and every girl whimpers as the alpha female tries to calm them down with serious pep talks about pro life. But not even that could save them. Right…because this is a slasher flick and people have to die. Apparently strangers feel the need to kill people responsible of murdering their own friend. You would at least think its Megans sister or father but trust me, a little bomb in the end will surley knock you off course.

The relationship between the sisters are kinda awkward in length and questionable in honesty. One is never gonna get laid, the other refuses to let things go, and one just wants to move on. All of them disagree till blood spills and then they have to work together like real sisters. Shouldnt they just be reasonable? No because this becomes a second conflict. One that is strong enough to create foolhardy women in the process. Where each of them has ideas and slowly walks away from the group to their inevitable end. And apparently Stewart Hendler(Director Of Sorority Row) handles it perfectly just like how Jim Gillespie did with I Know What You Did Last Summer. A moment of applause but not quite there yet because its not that original anymore. That seems to be the focus point for every slasher flick. Where friends betray or have a sense of distrust. But nevertheless, it worked.

Everything is formulatic but the kills, I have to say took a new step forward. The shower scene is among my favorites. Not because I saw nipples but a very interesting sequence where the killer impales the women into the wall with a bladed tire iron. And its pace works for it as well. Not a whole lot went wrong with this film. Its just the expiration date of every element in this film. They are all outdated and used. Its like wearing something from Goodwill. Its nice and firm but it gets icthy sooner or later and bleach suddenly destroys it. But what bothers me a lot is some of the scenes where they just seem a little out of line or its characters to stupid to notice. Like how at one point they thought a dead women was the killer. Thats all you need to know. Seems pointless and the girls just seem a littler dumber as the movie quickly ends into caches of cliches. Realism is not respected. Or is it true that every women when in distress, just acts stupid. But hey its a movie and all of these girls probably didnt know what they were doing.

Moderately entertaining for horror lovers and hot enough(Lot Of Women) for everyone else.

Though you kinda wonder…why didnt Garret just checked the girls pulse…..hmmmmmmm.

2.5/5

Written By: Xou Xiong

“Fraco, cansativo e sem criatividade”

As 6 melhores amigas do grupo Theta Pi (Uma espécie de veteranas mega vadias) Cassidy, Jessica, Chugs, Claire, Ellie e Megan estão dando uma festa de arromba na casa de uma delas, decidem então fazer uma brincadeira de mal gosto para assustar um dos garotos de lá.

Megan se finge de morta durante uma relação sexual para fazê-lo acreditar que foi o responsável pela morte dela. A brincadeira porem chega tão longe que acaba ironicamente numa verdadeira tragédia. Megan é morta acidentalmente, as amigas para não acabarem incriminadas resolvem fazer um pacto de silêncio, esconderiam o corpo e diriam que ela desapareceu durante a festa. 8 meses depois, convivendo com o silêncio elas passam a ser chantageadas e assassinadas uma por uma por um psicopata mascarado que parece saber sobre o antigo segredo delas.

Com essa base o filme mais lembra o mascarado que persegue os jovens que resolveram ocultar um crime no suspense ‘Eu sei o que vocês fizeram no verão passado’ de 1997 com uma mistura de ‘Medo em cherry falls’ de 2000 devido as cenas claramente apelativas de nudez e orgias, e justamente por beber destas fontes que ele acaba pecando feio, e se no primeiro ato o roteiro se preocupa com o estado moral e psicológico das jovenzitas desesperadas com o que acabaram de fazer, no final do segundo suas ações não convencem, agem como se não tivessem feito nada de sério com diálogos baratos e piadas fora de ora.

As personalidades principais são básicas, jogadas de cara de acordo com seus diálogos, resumi-las a meras pervertidas sempre falando e correndo atrás de sexo parece ter sido uma forma fácil que os roteiristas Josh Stolberg e Pete Goldfinger acharam para entregar suas personagens, isso resultou numa antipatia gigantesca para com elas, e só perceber como a morte de cada uma pouco faz efeito algum ao filme.

E na tentativa de surpreender e envolver o público, o roteiro modifica sempre o humor e as ações de cada uma, com finalidade a nos fazer crer que alguma delas tem envolvimento com os assassinatos que vem acontecendo, o que é legal pro gênero, pois nos faz querer bancar os detetíves juntando as peças, mesmo que isso soe algo artificial demais.

Filmes como este que parecem querer se garantir com a revelação final não podem errar. No terceiro ato eu queria logo que acabasse, a reviravolta final e longa demais, o que me prendia era uma explicação no mínimo razoável sobre a identidade do assassino que matava ate os que não tiveram nada a ver com o incidente. Infelizmente a revelação deixa muito a desejar, inesperado porem sem graça, sem sentido, principalmente quando o mesmo decide se explicar do porque estar matando as pessoas, ridículo – tirou totalmente a credibilidade e a única chance do filme dar certo.

Sorority Row de Stewart Hendler é certamente uma das bombas do ano, não recomendaria nem aos mais ligados ao gênero Terror – suspense, este e tão ruim que pode ate ser comparado ao Halloween – O início, lançado também este ano.

PS1 : Filmes de Terror lembram sangue e violência, coisa que este também erra, fraco que só, as cenas parecem censuradas, nenhuma se quer chega a chocar, a melhorzinha e mais criativa foi a segunda morte, a da garrafa na guela.

PS2 : Estou cansado de ver mulheres protagonizando filmes de terror – quero um homem agora.

Ficha do filme com informações, trailers, críticas, curiosidades e etc : www.xcine.com.br/filme_pactosecreto.html

Release Name: Sorority.Row
Release Date: September 17, 2009
Filename: SORORITY ROW.mpg
Source: TS
Size: 1.36 GB
Genre: Horror | Thriller
Video: 704×320 | 1908kbps | 23.976fps
Audio: English | 96kbps | MP3
Subtitles: None
Runtime: 1hr 35mins
Directed By: Stewart Hendler
Starring: Briana Evigan, Rumer Willis, Carrie Fisher, Jamie Chung
Plot: After finding out a guy cheated on their sister, sorority house Theta Pi play a simple prank on him. They trick him into thinking that he has killed his girlfriend, then take him into the middle of nowhere to ‘dismember” the body, only then revealing it was a prank. However, the prank goes horribly wrong and all involved swear never to speak of it again. A year later at graduation though, they are all reminded of the past.

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Confira os filmes que estreiam hoje, 25 de setembro:

Jogando com Prazer: Para Nikki, a vida é um jogo bem simples. Ou você é a caça ou o caçador. Ele se considera um cara muito esperto e sabe que a beleza e juventude são suas melhores cartas. Frequentando grandes festas nos melhores clubes e nas maiores mansões de Los Angeles, ele passa os dias e as noites aproveitando o melhor que a vida pode dar. Com Samantha, sua última conquista, ele ganhou tudo que sempre sonhou. Porém, ao encontrar Heather, uma sedutora garçonete, ele descobre que as regras do jogo acabaram de mudar e agora ele vai ter de decidir se vai querer continuar jogando.

(Spread) EUA, 2009. Direção: David Mackenzie. Gênero: Comédia Romântica. Elenco: Ashton Kutcher, Anne Heche, Maria Conchita Alonso. Duração: 97 min. 16 anos.

Pequenos Invasores: Grupo de crianças em férias numa bela casa, no Estado americano do Maine, é obrigado a enfrentar e defender a todos de uma invasão alienígena. O problema é que os invasores estão bem no andar de cima da casa. Agora, eles terão de usar todas as suas habilidades, imaginação e cooperação para proteger a todos destas pequenas criaturas alienígenas que querem dominar o planeta.

(Aliens in the Attic) EUA, 2009. Direção: John Schultz. Elenco: Ashley Tisdale, Robert Hoffman. Duração: 86 min. Infantil/Aventura – Livre.

Pacto Secreto: As jovens Cassidy, Jessica, Claire, Ellie e Megan são irmãs de uma fraternidade em uma universidade, que juraram entre elas sigilo, companheirismo e solidariedade, não importa o que aconteça. Mas sua lealdade é testada quando uma brincadeira em uma festa dá terrivelmente errado e Megan acaba brutalmente assassinada. Em vez de confessarem o crime e correrem o risco de destruir seu futuro, as amigas concordam em ocultar o cadáver e manter segredo para sempre.<br> Passado um ano, em sua formatura, as garotas decidem realizar uma festa de despedida na casa da fraternidade, confiantes de que seu tenebroso segredo continua enterrado. Mas, enquanto a festa acontece na casa, as garotas recebem vídeos em seu celular com cenas da noite do assassinato de Megan, de um remetente anônimo que ameaça repassar os vídeos para a polícia. Em seguida, uma por uma começa a ser perseguida por um misterioso assassino.

(Sorority Row) EUA, 2009. Direção: Stewart Hendler. Elenco: Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Rumer Willis. Duração: 101 min. Suspense – 16 anos.

Diário Proibido: Val é uma jovem francesa ninfomaníaca que faz questão de registrar suas confissões mais íntimas em seu diário secreto. Mas, apesar do prazer que a vida promíscua lhe dá, há também uma carência afetiva, deturpada pela busca incansável de satisfação carnal. Estreia em SP.

(Diario de una ninfómana) Espanha, 2008. Direção: Christian Molina. Elenco: Llum Barrera, Geraldine Chaplin, José Chaves. Duração: 95 min. Drama – 18 anos

Vila 21: Argentina, 2002. Tem início o Campeonato Mundial de Futebol: Coréia x Japão. Fredy, Cuzco e Lupín, três moleques da Vila 21, tentam assistir ao jogo de abertura, através da vidraça de uma pizzaria do bairro Retiro. Depois de serem expulsos do lugar, os três amigos fazem uma promessa: vão assistir ao primeiro jogo da seleção que acontecerá dali a dois dias, em uma TV em cores, custe o que custar. A partir desse momento, cada um deles colocará em prática um plano para concretizar este pacto, desencadeando consequências irreversíveis para sua amizade. Estreia em SP.

(Villa) Argentina, 2008. Direção: Ezio Massa. Elenco: Adrián Spinelli, Diego Sampayo, Miguel Zárate. Duração: 88 min. Drama – 18 anos

Clique nos títulos dos filmes para ver seus respectivos trailers. Bom filme! ;D

After a prank goes horribly wrong and a group of sorority girls try to cover it up they begin to get stalked and killed by someone who knows their secret.

Directed by – Stewart Hendler

Written by – Josh Stolberg, Pete Goldfinger, Mark Rosman

Starring – Adam Berry, Briana Evigan, Margo Harshman, Rumer Willis, Jamie Chung, Leah Pipes, Audrina Patridge, Matt O’Leary, Julian Morris, Debra Gordon, Carrie Fisher, Caroline D’Amore, Matt Lanter, Maxx Hennard, Ken Bolden, Rick Applegate, Deja Kreutzberg, Nicole Moore, Justine Wachsberger, Natalia Dove, Marlee Fritz, Anna McGhee

What’s there to say about another teen slasher flick? Well in the case of Sorority Row, pretty much nothing. Attractive people, mysterious killer, lots of death. That sums it up.

As far as slasher flicks, it’s not that bad. I’m just really tired of watching them. None of them try to steer even slightly away from the genre stereotypes and this one suffers from an ending that isn’t expected but isn’t shocking either. The best part of the flick is the few minutes that Carrie Fisher is in it, brandishing a shotgun and spouting curse words on her hunt for the killer. Princess Leia has a salty mouth!

This is not the way to throw a foam party!

I didn’t expect much from this film and, of course, wasn’t given much in the end anyway. When people first start dying I kinda got my hopes up. The first couple of deaths were pretty creative but then it went right back to the same old stuff. I guess getting stabbed with a sharp tire iron instead of a machete could be a slight improvement but just not enough.

The movie smacks of ripping off I Know What You Did Last Summer. Someone gets killed by accident, the group covers it up and then someone sends them a text letting them know they’re out to get even. When the end hits and the killer is revealed it seemed as if they just randomly picked someone and said ‘Make them the killer’ without any thought about it. I’m not really sure what else to say about this one. HAHA That’s kinda sad but that’s how it is. Don’t waste your money on this one. The deaths aren’t that great and the story is tired. Instead of seeing it, just enjoy this next pic. See, I’m looking out for your best interests!

We're pretty, we're half dressed and we die. Please see our movie!

Under the marquee – Will

"Sorority Row" Movie Poster

Theta Pi must die!

Pretty good tagline, huh? “Sorority Row,” a remake/update of 1983’s superb “The House On Sorority Row,” does indeed boast a couple of good “zingers” in its “viral” and standard marketing campaigns, the other being “Sisterhood Is Forever.”  They’re direct, to the point, and easy to remember. Enough to pique your interest.  But is that interest ultimately rewarded?

The cast is a testament to the continuing power of nepotism in Hollywood, featuring as it does Rumer Willis (Bruce and Demi’s kid) and Briana Evigan (daughter of Greg, still best remembered as title character B.J. McKay in TV’s “B.J. And The Bear”) among its bevy of young almost-starlets. They each out in good turns as basket-case Ellie and quasi-hero Cassidy, respectively, and are  the only two sisters among a group of five members of the exclusive Theta Pi sorority who share a deadly secret between them to show any sort of remorse for the part they played in a deadly prank gone wrong that left one of their other members at the bottom of a disused mine shaft.

The initial premise of accidentally killing their friend while she’s pretending to be dead is clever enough and fleshed out in much more detail than it was in the original, but in all fairness this remake suffers from some of the same flaws that so many previous entries in the horror classic do-over sweepstakes do : it’s more stylized than it is stylish, it’s trying overly-hard to be “contemporary” and “relevant” while remaining ostensibly true to its “source material,” and has an unfortunate tendency to over-explain things just in case its audience leans too heavily toward the moronic —for instance, we can see with our own two eyes that the killer is using a tricked-out tire iron, there’s really no need for dialogue exposition to confirm that fact, and while we’re at it, there’s no need to keep reminding us of the fact that Megan, the unfortunate victim in question, can’t possible be alive—we know that, too, and when the sisters who dumped her and some of their friends start getting killed off one-by-one on the night of their college graduation, the movie doesn’t even try particularly hard to sell us on the idea that it could be her back from the grave to exact vengeance, so why keep mentioning it as a possibility?

The real identity of the killer is the main source of intrigue here, and while some of the “red herrings” along the way are pretty blatantly absurd (Carrie Fisher as the stereotypical drunk house mother, for instance, never seems plausible as the face beneath the murderer’s graduation gown hood, but they sure do try to sell us on the idea for a little while), it’s nevertheless an interesting enough little mystery, and when the raging psychopath is finally revealed, to give credit where it’s due, it actually is fairly surprising.

The rest of the principal cast—Leah Pipes as super-bitch Jessica,  Jamie Chung as perpetually-cheated-on Claire, and Margo Harshman as drunken uber-slut Chugs—all do well enough with their roles, and director Stewart Hendler keeps things moving at a pretty brisk and at times even suspenseful clip. No one here has anything to be ashamed of, that’s for sure.

But then, there’s nothing that particularly sets this film apart from the passel of teen- and twenty-something-horror out there. It’s involving enough for about 100 minutes, but in no way especially memorable, yet alone groundbreaking. You won’t reflect on it much later, nor be dying to rent it on DVD. It all fades from memory pretty quickly.

It’s not bad, that’s for certain, but it never rises above the level of “acceptably average,” so while your host isn’t willing to go so far as to say you should give this movie a pass, the fact is that you won’t be missing a whole lot if you don’t see it, especially since there’s sure to be something else more or less exactly like it that comes along within the next few weeks.

My friends and I have had a long running joke that centers around when I do something stupid or ridiculous, I always say, “Do you think my Dad was doing this kind of thing when he was my age?” The answer is always NO. The reason for this is that I’ve always considered my Dad to be the ultimate adult. From my vantage point, he always handled every situation with dignity and grace. He took care of things. People did not trifle with him. He was a serious man. His youngest son, that being me, is the exact opposite in almost every way. My Dad lived in the real world, and he thrived in that environment. I live in a world dominated by pop culture and I hang on by a thread. When he wrote a business document, he proudly put his name on it. When I write this blog, I use an alias stolen from a song in Say Anything. I thought I was making headway in the growing up department, but my recent behavior has proven to me that I have miles and miles to go before I sleep.

Last Saturday night after I got off of work, I went to a friends party and played Beatles Rock Band until 3 A. M.. Would my father have done this? No shot. I’m not sure he even knew who The Beatles were. If he did, he definitely couldn’t have named all four of them. Now, in my defense, I rocked the bass like no other that night. I needed to hold up my half of the greatest rhythm section in Rock and Roll history. I even played left handed because that’s how Paul McCartney played it. I’m right handed in case you were wondering. It’s o.k. to be impressed. Everyone at the party certainly was.

Last week I played golf with some friends of mine. I hit an approach shot that looked like it was heading for the lake to the right of the green. I couldn’t see if it was wet or not. As I walked closer to the green, I saw my ball sitting on the edge of the grass, dry as can be. I immediately broke out in to Pearl Jams Alive.

Oh I, oh, I’m still alive
Hey, I, I, oh, I’m still alive
Hey I, oh, I’m still alive
Hey…oh…

This either aggravates your playing partners, or they join in the singing. It can go either way. I played hundreds of rounds of golf with my Dad, and I can promise you, he never did anything like this. Nor did he ever hit a great tee shot and then pretend to sneak off the green like Scooby Doo and Shaggy getting away from a ghost. I’ve been known to do this on occasion too. I would do it more often, but I don’t hit that many great tee shots.

Yesterday, I went to see the movie, Sorority Row, in the middle of the day. Why would I see that movie, you ask? Well, I could lie and tell you it was research for this blog. The real reason is I wanted to see if Audrina from The Hills could act. The

Briana Evigan

answer is no by the way. She can’t act. Not even a little bit. But there were some hot girls in this movie, especially you Briana Evigan. So thank you for not making it a waste of time. Would my father have blown off work to see a movie in the middle of the day? No. Even if it was about scantily clad girls getting chased by a killer? Still no. The idea may have appealed to him, but he never would have done it. His sense of dignity would have kicked in. Mine never does.

I was having lunch with a friend today, and I was explaining to him that it’s been a while since I’ve gone to a college football game. The only problem is that every time I say “it’s been a while”, I sing it like Staind does when they sing It’s Been A While. I’ve been doing this for years. I used to break it out in meeting sometimes. It’s a crowd pleaser. I thought I had put it to bed, but I’ve recently resurrected it. It’s been a while since I’ve sang It’s Been A While. I’m going to apologize now. Once it gets in your head, it’s impossible to stop doing it. Would my father have done something this silly? It’s been a while, since I asked myself this question. The answer is…not a chance in hell.

Two days ago, I was driving and searching for anything decent on the radio, and I settled on Miley Cyrus’ Party in the U.S.A.. That song is kind of catchy! Yes, it’s embarrassing to admit that, but I don’t care. It’s not the first time I’ve liked a song by a teenage girl. It probably won’t be the last. Would my Dad have liked a song by a teenage girl? Maybe.  The problem is he never listened to music. I can’t count the number of times I drove in a car with him, and he never turned on the radio. So even if he would have liked the song, in reality, he never would have heard it. Would he have admitted to liking the song? No. Because even if he did like it, he would forget about it ten minutes later. He wouldn’t have wasted brain space with nonsense like that.

Did my Father have any friends who in the middle of a party, would grab a pool cue and start waving it around like it was a white flag, and then skip across the room like they were Bono to U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday? I sincerely doubt it.

Did my Dad and his friends ever phone one another and spend the first ten minutes of the conversation calling each other every variation of “dick”and “douche bag” and many other names I’m not comfortable printing here? I hope they did, but my guess is there’s absolutely no way. My Dad hated the phone. He wouldn’t have killed ten minutes of his day calling his friend “a dick” 55 times in a row.

I’m not bragging here, but it’s safe to say I’m one of the greatest fake smokers on the planet. It’s an art form, and I’ve mastered it. I use my fake smoking in conversations like punctuation. It’s a prop. Even when I played Beatles Rock Band, I took my fake cigarette and put it in the strings at top of my bass like some grizzled musician. If you’ve seen me do it, you understand its artistry. Would my Dad fake smoke under circumstance? Absolutely not. I think he actually smoked for real before I was born. My Dad didn’t live in a make believe world. He did things. I just pretend.

I’m totally different then my father. He played football and baseball. I played basketball and soccer. He graduated college in 3.5 years. I graduated in five. I love music and television. He didn’t care for either. He loved chocolate. I hate chocolate. He had a full head of hair until the day he died. I’m bald. We never voted for the same person in any election. He raised three children, with the two oldest being extremely productive members of society. I have trouble with a house plant. He married two amazing women. I break up with girls because they’ve never heard of The Talking Heads.

Even though we had almost nothing in common, he always had my back. He may not have understood my decisions, but he supported me every step of the way. He was cool like that. I can’t express how great he was to have as a father. I really miss hanging out with him. I don’t want to think about how long it has been, but unfortunately,  It’s Been A While.

Para aquellos fans de Star Wars, Carrie Fisher aparece en el filme como la directora de la fraternidad...

Aunque la traducción al español suene más a una película mala de acción, lo cierto es que Sorority Row es lo mejor que he visto en los últimos años en cuanto a “slasher films” se refiere.

La película nos cuenta la historia de unas chicas que al jugar una broma, ésta resulta con la muerte de una de sus compañeras en la fraternidad. Tiempo después, alguien comienza a acecharlas para cobrar venganza…

Como es de esperarse, la trama no tiene mucha profundidad aunque lo cierto es que en este tipo de filmes nunca la hay. Después de la decepcionante “Sangriento San Valentín” (My Bloody Valentine), por fin llega una película que bien podría marcar el regreso de este tipo de filmes. Tan sólo recordemos el éxito que tuvieron en su momento Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer y Urban Legend…

El cast es bastante decente y cuenta con la participación de Rumer Willis (The House Bunny), Matt Lanter (90210), Briana Evigan (Step Up 2) quienes son los más conocidos. También está Jamie Chung quien saliera este año en Drangoball Evolution y Audrina Patridge, famosa por la serie The Hills. No son actuaciones memorables, pero sí suficientes.

Otro punto a favor de la película es el soundtrack. Destaca Emergency de Aimee Allen (quien también participó en la banda sonora de Hairspray) y Tear Me Up de Stefy Rae.

No es un filme para un Oscar y contiene muchas tramas confusas, pero es digno de irse a ver ya que tiene todo lo necesario: buenos sustos, buena dosis de sangre, buena música, buena elección de cast (aunque eso no signifique que actúen bien) y un buen final típico de los slasher films.

9/10

P.D. Si alguien consigue la canción de Emergency de Aimee Allen, favor de postear el download link en un comentario XD.

A sorority prank gone wrong leads to a bloody murder spree in this slasher film featuring Rumer Willis, Audrina Patridge, and Carrie Fisher. It was supposed to be a practical joke, but no one was laughing after a girl in the prime of her life had been accidentally murdered. Desperate to go on with their lives and avoid taking responsibility for their actions, the surviving sisters and their male accomplice agree to dump the body and never speak of the incident again. Just after graduation, however, a mysterious killer begins stalking everyone who harbors the bloody secret, leading the survivors to fight for their lives against a masked maniac with a deadly modus operandi.

Cast: Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Rumer Willis, Jaime Chung, Audrina Patridge, Julian Morris, and Carrie Fisher
Director: Stewart Hendler
The Verdict: Would you prefer to die at the hands of a lumbering, mute madman who kills anyone and everyone just for the sake of killing? Or a somewhat sane person with just the tenuous of reasons to slay a group of predetermined victims? OK, I know you would prefer not to be garroted, decapitated, or burnt to a crisp. But after the identity of the hooded murderer is revealed in this occasionally snarky but still unnecessary remake of 1983’s The House on Sorority Row, you might feel a little more appreciation for such taciturn serial killers as Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers. At least they can’t help themselves from slaughtering beautiful young things and the unlucky adults who get in their way. It’s hard to believe Sorority Row’s murderer—disguised in a graduation gown—would actually go on the bloody rampage. The motive is so shaky that you’ll roll your eyes with disbelief when the killer’s hood finally comes off. Whatever you want to say about the original—a pedestrian rip-off of Halloween and Friday the 13th—at least you understood why the murderer exacted revenge on the hotties who accidentally shot his mother. In Sorority Row, our scantily clad sorority sisters—including Rumer Willis, Leah Pipes, and Briana Evigan—come under attack after a prank backfires and leaves one of their own dead (Audrina Patridge) and rotting in an abandoned mine. Actually, this spares us from having to watch The Hills social climber try to act. She doesn’t even make a convincing corpse. Months later, on graduation day, the girls find themselves stalked and dispatched in quick and uninventive fashion by someone they assume to be Patridge. The murderer’s weapon of choice is a tire iron—possibly the one used to accidentally kill Patridge—pimped out with a knife and a retractable hook. Director Stewart Hendler lets everything play out in predictable fashion, from the methods used to execute the girls and their boyfriends to the epilogue that sets up the inevitable sequel. Hell, even after the girls’ secret is out in the open, you wonder why no one calls the cops. The violence isn’t very graphic—Sorority Row probably would have earned a PG-13 rating instead of its R were it not for a shower scene that features a bevy of bare-breasted babes. The shame of it is, Sorority Row gives you early hope that it might try very hard to distinguish itself from such recent slasher remakes as Friday the 13th, My Bloody Valentine, and Prom Night. After Patridge’s accidental death, the sisters spend several minutes bickering over their moral dilemma. Should they call the cops and confess? Or dump the body and go on with their lives? This sharp-tongued debate not only allows us to peak inside the minds of the girls later targeted for death but promises to employ all the forthcoming bloodshed as a means to test the vow of sisterhood during the ultimate crisis. Hendler does whatever he can to follow through on this despite the divide-and-conquer approach to the killing of the girls. Still, there’s much enjoyment to be found in the friction-filled relationship between Pipes’ Queen Bitch and Evigan’s Good Girl with a Conscience. Such is the tension between the two that you expect them to either tear out each other’s hair or tear off each other’s clothes. They could teach those Mean Girls a thing or two about being catty. Sadly, the rest of Sorority Row is merely murder by numbers.
Release Date: Sept. 11, 2009
Rating: R
Running Time: 100 minutes

The stars of Sorority Row

DAN BENNETT – North County Times

Making a horror film had an unexpected impact on Rumer Willis.

Willis, who costars in the new horror flick “Sorority Row,” was given plenty of dialogue, along with an abundance of screams, the time-honored method of communication in horror films.

“After screaming every night for three weeks, I sounded like Kathleen Turner,” Willis said. “I didn’t mind that at all.”

Willis and a few of her co-stars gathered at Comic-Con International in San Diego recently to talk about the film. “Sorority Row” is the story of several college juniors, sorority sisters, who let a prank involving a fellow sister go horribly wrong, leading to her murder. The women attempt to cover up the murder and a year passes before mysterious videos of the incident begin appearing on their cell phones, and it becomes apparent there is a killer still on the loose.

“Shooting a horror film is different than other types of films, because it’s so physically demanding and the scenes are so tense, but once you start laughing it’s difficult to stop,” said Willis, the daughter of actors Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. “That laughter is a release from the tension, and it really helps you work.”

Co-star Leah Pipes, known for her work in the TV series “Life is Wild,” among other roles, said the screenplay had an immediate effect on her.

“It was like reading ‘The Exorcist’ —- so scary it turns your head,” Pipes said. “For me it had the same feel as thrillers like ‘Rear Window’ or other Hitchcock films. It had that kind of slow tension.”

Audrina Partridge, a co-star on the TV series “The Hills,” plays another sorority sister in the film, and says the story also says something about sorority life.

“It gets into some of the mentality of sorority life and how we all need to be careful with the choices we make,” she said.

All the requisite screams and drama intact, “Sorority Row” also brings a sense of humor to the table, the women say.

“From night one, shooting this film was a blast, and that’s partly because of the people involved and partly because of some of the dark humor in the film,” said Briana Evigan, another co-star. “The best horror movies are always at least a little funny. We tried to find that with this film.”

Lee Grimes is the special effects makeup artist on ‘Sorority Row’ , Read his Exclusive Interview with GoreMaster.com HERE

Rebecca De Mornay is heading back to The Hand that Rocks the Cradle territory as she will be the big bad psycho mother in the the remake of cult 1980 horror pic Mother’s Day according to Variety. Shooting to start next week in Winnipeg.

The remake also stars Jamie King, Shawn Ashmore, Briana Evigan and Deborah Ann Woll.

Darren Lynn Bousman is directing from Scott Milam’s script, which follows a family of villains, led by a sadistic mother, who return to their former home and terrorize the new owners and their guests. The filmmakers are aiming for a release in April, timed to take advantage of Mother’s Day on 9th May.

Titolo originale: S. Darko

Regia: Chris Fisher

Cast: Daveigh Chase, Briana Evigan, Jackson Rathbone, Elizabeth Berkley, Ed Westwick, James Lafferty, John Hawkes, Matthew Davies, Walter Platz, Bret Roberts, Nathans Stevens, Ryan Templeman, Zulay Henao. 

Distribuzione: Moviemax, USA, 2009

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Sette anni dopo la morte del fratello Donnie, la diciottenne Samantha Darko ( Daveigh Chase) cerca di lasciarsi alla spalle il dolore per la propria perdita, partendo con la sua migliore amica Corey (Briana Evigan) alla volta della California per lavorare come ballerine. Durante il viaggio la macchina si ferma in una piccola cittadina, Conejo Springs. La sosta forzata farà comprendere alla ragazza che non si può sfuggire al proprio passato e ai propri fantasmi…

Partiamo dal presupposto che Donnie Darko di Richard Kelly è un film bellissimo, un cult, un prodotto unico e inimitabile. Detto questo passiamo all’analisi di questo sequel, anche se chiamarlo sequel è decisamente un’offesa per l’originale… Chris Fisher è chiaramente un fan della pellicola e decide masochisticamente di cimentarsi nel secondo capitolo di quello che da molti (me compresa!) è considerato un capolavoro… Mission impossible già sulla carta…Ma lui non si perde d’animo, anche dopo l’abbandono del progetto da parte dello stesso Kelly, che ne ha preso totalmente le distanze…Continua, forse punta sull’effetto pubblicità del titolo… Risultato: un totale fallimento su tutta la linea, una débacle assurda…

Il film semplicemente non ha senso… Tutte le visioni di Donnie, il coniglio, il sonnambulismo etc erano inserite in un particolare contesto e avevano la loro propria ragion d’essere e inoltre avevano un  saldo contorno di ironia, dialoghi intelligenti, ritratti crudi e realistici di un’intera generazione, senza parlare poi dell’apporto del cast praticamente perfetto, a partire dai fratelli Gyllenhall, Jake e Maggie. Nel cast originario del film c’era anche Daveigh Chase, che interpretava la sorellina più piccola di casa Darko, Samantha. Il secondo capitolo vede l’attrice, ormai cresciuta, riprendere lo stesso ruolo. Qui si fermano i contatti tra il primo e il secondo film. Il resto è solo una serie assurda e arbitraria di viaggi indietro nel tempo, di personaggi ambigui e male delineati, di domande che restano senza risposta per tutta la durata della pellicola, e di tentativi maldestri  di imitazione del primo capitolo, come il coniglio, il nipote di Roberta Sparrow, e di soluzioni alla David Lynch.

L’unica nota positiva è data dalla protagonista , la giovane, precoce e talentuosa Daveigh Chase (chi non la ricorda nel ruolo della terrificante Samara Morgan in The Ring?), accompagnata da Briana Evigan, protagonista di Step Up 2, nel ruolo della sua migliore amica Corey e da Ed Westwick, il Chuck Bass della serie tv Gossip Girl, che interpreta Randy, un ragazzo originario della piccola cittadina in cui le due ragazze sono costrette a fermarsi e che si offre di aiutarle a riparare l’auto.

In definitiva, un film assolutamente perdibile, quasi un’offesa all’originale.

Conclusione: Da evitare.

Voto: 4

Shawn Ashmore

Saw II, III and IV director Darren Lynn Bousman is prepping a remake of the 1980 cult horror film Mother’s Day.

Bousman has already assembled an array of cast members for his scary movie including Shawn Ashmore (Iceman from the X-Men films), Alexa Vega (Spy Kids), Briana Evigan (S. Darko), Deborah Ann Woll (True Blood), Matt O’Leary (Death Sentence) and Jaime King (Sin City). The first day of filming is scheduled to take place next month in Winnipeg, Canada.

The old Mother’s Day was a Lloyd Kaufman film from his Troma Company so it was ultra-low budget and tailored to grab as much attention for its shock value. Made when making slasher films that took place around a holiday were the fad, the ’80s Mother’s Day was a brutal story about three female friends who, while camping, are stalked and sexually assaulted

Alexa Vega

by two deranged brothers who have a misguided sense of family values. The new Mother’s Day is dropping the rape element and moving the action to the confines of a house. The new owners of the house will be terrorized by the former family that used to live there who are apparently a bunch of wackos.

“What we’re trying to do is elevate this outside of a genre movie,” Bousman is quoted as saying to THR. “I’ve done three Saw films, I’ve done Repo, and yes, this is horrific at times, but it’s much darker and deeper because of the focus on the characters.”

The filmmakers want to get their movie out in time around next year’s Mother’s Day in May.

Source(s) -The Hollywood Reporter, Corona Coming Attractions

Briana Evigan

Jaime King

Step Up 2 the Streets
★★ / ★★★★

Jon Chu directs the sequel for “Step Up” and I must say that although the dancing was much more incredible than the first, the story did not quite hold up. Briana Evigan decides to audition to attend Maryland School of the Arts with the help of Channing Tatum (a more than welcome return). In the school, she meets a geeky kid (Adam G. Sevani) who has a passion for dancing but decides not to pursue it because he doesn’t think he’s good enough and an all-star charming guy (Robert Hoffman) who’s sick of the school’s way of structuring/limiting certain styles of dancing. Evigan and Hoffman team up and gather outcasts who have a talent for dancing in order to compete in The Streets, an underground hip-hop battle of dance. Aside from the first scene when Tatum reprises his role to pass the torch (and for the audiences to find out what happened to him after the first film) and the final dance scene in the rain, the rest of it was pretty weak. The dialogue was laughable because even though it makes fun of pop culture such as “The Hills” and the “High School Musical” franchise, they resort to the same type of drama that defined such references. So, in a way, the sequel’s jokes worked against itself. Other than the two leads, we didn’t really get to know who the outcasts were outside of their stereotypes. Although they might have said one funny line or two, they were still one-dimensional. I almost wished that the picture could have focused more on the relationship between Evigan and the strict dance professor who wanted to mold her talents (Will Kemp). I felt like there could have been a two-way street connection between the two to highlight the fact that there are teachers out there who truly care for their students. That would have been a much better film because such an issue is concrete and universally relevant. The bit about the rivalry between groups felt too forced at times. Still, if one is in the mood to see impressive dancing, then by all means, see it. If one cares more about the story, I suggest to watch its predecessor instead.

Non era certo facile. Non era facile inventarsi un film che potesse essere un degno sequel di un cult – e probabilmente un capolavoro del suo genere – come Donnie Darko. E difatti il risultato è parecchio deludente. Una produzione da botteghino, certamente non peggiore di tanti altri film ma di basso profilo, una delusione per chi, appassionatosi per il primo film, si aspetti una vero sequel, che possa fare luce su molti aspetti oscuri del primo episodio. In realtà lo stesso Donnie viene nominato pochissimo (due o tre volte in tutto il film) e il suo estremo sacrificio non viene neppure menzionato, rendendo questo un film a se, senza alcun collegamento – ad esclusione della protagonista, sorella di Donnie, e della Filosofia dei viaggi nel tempo di Roberta Sparrow – quasi a confermare che il nome Darko sia qui usato con l’inganno esclusivamente per portare appassionati al cinema.

1995: sono passati 7 anni dagli avvenimenti raccontati in Donnie Darko. Samantha, la sorellina di Donnie, ha oramai 17 anni e deve vedersela con una famiglia a pezzi, che non si è mai ripresa dalla morte del fratello. Assieme alla sua migliore amica Corey, Samantha parte alla volta di Los Angeles, ossessionata da bizzarre visioni che comprendono anche quelle del coniglio Frank. Quando nel corso del loro cammino giungono in una piccola città dove è appena caduto un meteorite, le visioni di Samantha e Corey inizieranno a riguardare il futuro.

La locandina di S. Darko

L’aspetto peggiore del film è la trama, l’intreccio narrativo e il susseguirsi degli eventi, con i protagonisti che sembrano vagare per la pellicola senza meta. Una storia piena di continui sacrifici atti a cambiare il corso del tempo, che ridicolizzano e banalizzano il sacrificio di Donnie del primo film – oltre che renderlo senza senso, visto il contesto e le prospettive.

Non è un caso che Richard Kelly, creatore, sceneggiatore e regista di Donnie Darko, abbia preso le distanza da questo progetto, confermando che S.Darko è più un progetto commerciale che cinematografico. Potrebbe sembrare in realtà più un remake che non un sequel perché il film altro non è che una versione dell’originale spogliata di tutti quegli elementi costitutivi della sua identità tematica e culturale e rivestita di abiti nuovi: abiti più hip, più colorati, più leggeri, più superficiali.

Few people can deny the awesomeness of Carrie Fisher: her last Star Wars movie might be over twenty years ago, but the gold bikini (and the hair) are still worth a mention, and Princess Leia remains one of those characters that a variety of men and women either want to be or be with.

Sorority Row is a remake of the 1983 slasher film The House On Sorority Row and Fisher plays a bad-ass housemother in a sorority house where the girls hold a dark secret involving the accidental death of a housemate the previous year. It’s all a bit like someone knows what they did last summer, to be honest, but who cares when there’s people dying. The trailer promises that the film will have some fairly interesting (and hopefully graphic) deaths, and the presence of Rumer Willis and Audrina Patridge from MTV’s The Hills ensures that even people who don’t like the stars will probably check the film out, just to see how their favourite celebrities might kick the bucket.

Sorority Row is out in cinemas in the UK and Ireland September 9th, 2009. That’s 999, the same number to call if you’re ever in those countries and being pursued by a masked killer.

Paint by numbers horror is tiresome, but horror movies should work within the genre. When they color too far outside the lines fans get lost. Sorority Row has all of the necessary elements to make it a typical slasher flick but at the same time tries to put a fresh coat of primer on the genre in an effort to find a happy medium between those two alternatives. While the film never quite reaches that middle ground, it sure provides a damn good time while trying to find it.

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