Sorority Row Opening Scene

Sorority Row

• is a 2009 American slasher film
• Summit Entertainment
• The film is a re-imagining of the 1983 slasher film The House on Sorority Row
• budget  -12.5 million
• Plot -

The college sorority is home to seniors and best friends Jessica, Cassidy, Ellie, Claire, Chugs and Megan who, constantly throw wild parties. During one of these parties Megan discovers her boyfriend Garrett is cheating on her. As payback she and her friends decide to pull a prank on him. Megan fakes her own death while she is making out with Garrett. With the sisters, Garrett brings Megan out to a steel mill, intent on dropping her body down a mineshaft. After the sisters (jokingly) mention they need to release the air out of her lungs so her body won't rise to the top, Garrett stabs Megan through the chest with a tire iron, actually killing her for real. Panicking, the group dumps Megan's body in the mineshaft, vowing never to speak of the events that transpired ever again.

The opening to the scene is very average and has various shots of people having fun, couples, drinks, dancing etc, and just by the opening you wouldn't associate it with the "slasher genre of horror". Also the main gender is female and women are generally seen as not as violent as men, which makes the next couple of scenes even more disturbing. There is also a lot of bright lights at the begging and "modern" music, making the setting have a much higher verisimilitude of a party. the camera then focuses on one character (female) and uses a tracking shot to follow her around the house and up the stairs. The character is then dragged into a room and then the camera looks over down onto the rest of the people at the party having fun, the camera angle also makes them look vulnerable, as if they are being watched from above.