{"id":3694,"date":"2024-08-28T21:17:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T21:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=3694"},"modified":"2024-10-13T19:34:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T23:34:11","slug":"sorority-house-massacre-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/08\/28\/sorority-house-massacre-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorority House Massacre II"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Sorority House Massacre II <\/strong>(1990)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Concorde\/Horror-Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 77 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No MPAA rating (bloody violence, nudity, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Jim Wynorski\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: James B. Rogers and Bob Sheridan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Chuck Cirino\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: J.E. Bash and Jurgen Baum\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: October 5, 1990 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Robyn Harris, Melissa Moore, Dana Bentley, Stacia Zhivago, Michelle Verran, Jurgen Baum, Karen Chorak, Bridget Carney, Bob Sheridan, Mike Elliott, Peter Spellos (\u201cOrville Ketchum as Himself\u201d).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: N\/A\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Body Count: 5 (or 6?)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ** \u00bd<\/p>\n

CINEMA MATH EQUATION: Another sorority house + another massacre + another group of dumb bimbos = Sorority House Massacre II<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0It would be easy to let the above formula serve as a description of Sorority House Massacre II<\/strong> except for one minor glitch. The title is the ONLY connection to the original 1986 slasher flick. If it\u2019s a sequel to anything, it\u2019s The Slumber Party Massacre. I\u2019ll explain as I go along.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It begins with five girls- Linda (Harris), Jessica (Moore), Kimberly (Zhivago), Suzanne (Verran) and Janey (Bentley)- moving into their new sorority house. They got it cheap because of the murders that took place there five years earlier. As they settle in for the night, they get a surprise visit from their new neighbor, a creepy fat guy named Orville Ketchum (Spellos). He was there the night the previous owner Hockstatter slaughtered his entire family. He tells the girls all about it. The movie flashes back to that night using scenes from The Slumber Party Massacre. It doesn\u2019t stop there. A minor character, a stripper named Candy (Carney), is based on the little sister Courtney from Slumber Party. I guess a massacre is a massacre no matter where it takes place.<\/p>\n

\u00a0So we have five dim but attractive girls in an old house with no phone and no electricity while a storm rages outside. What do they do first? Explore the dark basement, what else? Then they take showers (BOOBIES!), change into skimpy underwear (MORE BOOBIES!) and play with the Ouija board they found in the basement. Naturally, something scary happens and they decide to call it a night. That\u2019s when the killer shows up and bodies start dropping while frightened, scantily clad girls scream their heads off. One rhetorical question before I move on; is it any surprise that neighbor Orville is hanging around?<\/p>\n

\u00a0A minor subplot has two detectives, Lt. Block (Baum) and Sgt. Shawlee (Chorak), attempting to respond to a disturbance call at the sorority house. Never mind who called it in; the movie sure doesn\u2019t. Block, one of the detectives on the scene the night of the original murders, is still haunted by the case. He has suspicions about Orville somehow being involved. This is why he stops by the strip club to talk to Candy (or is it Courtney?). He wants to pick her brain about what she remembers from that night. BTW, what a joint she works in. It caters to all types- bikers, fat slobs, Italian mobsters and hookah-smoking Arabs. Diversity is good, right?<\/p>\n

\u00a0We all know by now that the most important components of any slasher movie are creative kill scenes and lots of blood. Unfortunately, Sorority House Massacre II<\/strong> drops the ball in both areas. With a body count of only five or six (if you count the one who just won\u2019t stay down), most of the killings occur just off-camera. We mostly see blood spray but it doesn\u2019t matter since it\u2019s too dark to make out much of anything. The killer\u2019s weapon of choice is a hook, in case you\u2019re interested. The only point of interest in this area is the person killed several times. What is the deal with this person? The movie never really explains. I\u2019m afraid I can\u2019t be more specific than that without giving away crucial plot points.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Sorority House Massacre II<\/strong> compensates for the lack of blood and kill creativity with a wicked, warped sense of humor, intentional and otherwise. Director Jim Wynorski (Chopping Mall) takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to the material with his slightly twisted take on genre conventions like gratuitous nudity, consistently idiotic behavior and the too-obvious suspect. It makes perfect sense to go the attic with a killer running around. Why not dress provocatively when there aren\u2019t any guys around? The killer has to be the creepy fat guy leering at the girls. If you were to add up the girls\u2019 IQs, it would still be below average. The girls prove this several times over with the things they do and say. One of them says, \u201cThe movers aren\u2019t coming till 6am in the morning.\u201d Can we say \u201credundant\u201d? On the other hand, I suppose idiots do require clarification on even simple concepts.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Sorority House Massacre II<\/strong> proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that acting is a subjective craft. Acting in a film like On the Waterfront is entirely different from acting in a cheapie slasher movie. In the case of the latter, it doesn\u2019t take much, just a nice body and the ability to scream loudly. If measured by those standards, the acting in Sorority House Massacre II<\/strong> is very good. On a personal note, I like Melissa Moore who also starred in the martial arts flick Angelfist.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I\u2019ll say this for Sorority House Massacre II<\/strong>, it\u2019s an improvement over its predecessor. It\u2019s a low budget job as only Concorde Pictures (owned by schlockmeister Roger Corman) can do it. Written in four days and shot in seven, Wynorski utilized sets from Slumber Party Massacre II and Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll High School Forever. He did it with the help of Julie Corman; Roger didn\u2019t even know it was happening until it was almost completed. All things considered, it didn\u2019t come out too bad even if it\u2019s not even remotely scary or suspenseful. It\u2019s just a fun horror quickie that should amuse viewers, nothing more.\"\"<\/p>\n

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Sorority House Massacre II (1990)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Concorde\/Horror-Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 77 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No MPAA rating (bloody violence, nudity, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Jim Wynorski\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: James B. Rogers and Bob Sheridan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Chuck Cirino\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: J.E. Bash and Jurgen Baum\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: October 5, 1990 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Robyn Harris, Melissa Moore, Dana Bentley, Stacia Zhivago, Michelle Verran, Jurgen Baum, Karen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror","category-sequels-remakes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sorority-House-Massacre-II-.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5265,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions\/5265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}