Later, the pool lights come on, but Slater's body is not there.ĭeciding that Slater must be alive, the girls search for her. She is brutally stabbed to death by the killer.
The girls realize that if the pool lights turn on, Slater's body will be revealed, so Stevie goes into the basement to disable the breaker. The girls agree to hide the body in the pool until their party ends.Īt the party, an unidentified figure stabs a man walking in the woods with Slater's cane. The prank goes awry when Vicki inadvertently shoots Slater, who appears to be dead. The girls then devise a prank: They steal her walking cane and place it in the house's unused outdoor pool and force her at gunpoint to retrieve it. Slater, who denies the girls' plan to throw a graduation party. Their celebration is interrupted by their domineering house mother, Mrs. Seven sorority sisters – Katey, Vicki, Liz, Jeanie, Diane, Morgan, and Stevie – celebrate their graduation ceremony at their sorority house, located at the far end of a sorority row. A remake, titled Sorority Row, was released in 2009. Despite a mixed critical response, The House on Sorority Row has attained a cult following among fans of the genre.
In November 1982, it received a limited regional theatrical release before expanding on January 21, 1983, eventually going on to gross $10.6 million. The film was shot on location in Pikesville, Maryland in the summer months of 1980. Partly inspired by the 1955 French film Les Diaboliques, first-time writer-director Rosman wrote the screenplay for the film in 1980, then titled Seven Sisters. Set at a sorority house, the story follows a group of sorority sisters being murdered during a graduation party, after committing a prank gone horribly fatal. Clark, and starring Eileen Davidson and Katherine McNeil.
The House on Sorority Row (alternately titled House of Evil and Seven Sisters) is a 1983 American slasher film written and directed by Mark Rosman, produced by John G.