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. Clark, and starring Eileen Davidson and Katherine McNeil. 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.
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Directed by | Mark Rosman |
Produced by | John G. Clark |
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Music by | Richard Band |
Cinematography | Tim Suhrstedt |
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Production company | VAE Productions |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $425,000 |
Box office | $10.6 million |
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. The film was shot on location in Pikesville, Maryland in the summer months of 1980. In November 1982, it received a limited regional theatrical release before expanding on January 21, 1983, eventually going on to gross $10.6 million.
Despite mixed critical reception, The House on Sorority Row has attained a cult following among fans of the genre. A remake, titled Sorority Row, was released in 2009.
Screenplay
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. Their celebration is interrupted by their domineering house mother, Mrs. Slater, who denies the girls' plan to throw a graduation party. 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. The prank goes awry when Vicki inadvertently shoots Slater, who appears to be dead. The girls agree to hide the body in the pool until their party ends.
At the party, an unidentified figure stabs a guest with Slater's cane. 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. She is brutally stabbed to death by the killer. Later, the pool lights come on, but Slater's body is not there.
Deciding that Slater must be alive, the girls search for her. Morgan enters Slater's room where Slater's body falls on her. Vickie suggests hiding the body in the old cemetery. Morgan is later stabbed to death with Slater's cane. Katey discovers children's toys and a dead caged bird in the attic. Diane is murdered next, and Jeanie is decapitated with a butcher knife in the bathroom. At the house, Katey finds a medical alert tag on a necklace belonging Slater. She calls the number and is put through to a Dr. Beck, who arrives. The two discover the bodies of Stevie, Morgan, and Diane in the pool. Vicki and Liz drive to the cemetery to bury Slater's body. However, both girls are killed by the assailant. At the cemetery, Katey finds the bodies of Vicki and Liz; Slater's body in the back of the van.
After forcibly giving Katey a sedative at the house, Dr. Beck reveals that Slater had a son named Eric who was deformed and mentally underdeveloped thanks to an illegal fertility treatment he had given her. Dr. Beck uses Katey as bait so he can capture Eric and cover up his crime. Eric arrives and hacks Dr. Beck to death while Katey searches for Vicki's gun, which does not fire. She flees to the bathroom to release the gun's safety catch and finds Jeanie's severed head in the toilet. She climbs to the attic, where she is attacked by Eric, now wearing a clown costume. She shoots him repeatedly, only to find the gun is loaded with blanks. She then uses a pin to stab Eric numerous times, and he falls through the attic to the floor below. Katey believes he is dead. However, Eric was only stunned, and opens his eyes.
- Katherine McNeil as Katherine 'Katey' Rose (as Kathryn McNeil)
- Eileen Davidson as Vicki
- Lois Kelso Hunt as Mrs. Dorothy Slater
- Christopher Lawrence as Dr. Nelson Beck
- Janis Zido as Liz
- Robin Meloy as Jeanie
- Harley Kozak as Diane
- Jodi Draigie as Morgan
- Ellen Dorsher as Stevie
- Michael Kuhn as Peter
- Michael Sergio as Rick
- Charles Serio as Eric
- Ruth Walsh as Mrs. Rose
- Kathryn Davidov as Party Girl
- Peter McClung as Peterson
- Brian T. Small as Pig
- Alan Treadwell as Gottfried
- Ken Myers as Murdered Guest
Screenplay
Writer-director Mark Rosman, who had attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and later graduated from New York University, got the idea for The House on Sorority Row after returning to his hometown in Los Angeles. Rosman had been a fraternity member at UCLA, which he used as a partial basis for writing the screenplay, which focused on a group of sorority sisters who find their lives threatened after covering up a fatal prank. Some elements of the film, primarily the usage of a pool to conceal their crime, were inspired by Les Diaboliques (1955), a French suspense film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. He later stated he envisioned a suspense film in which "the female characters would not just be victims–the whole idea of it was that they were culpable, and that they were sort of bringing this on themselves." The screenplay had several working titles, including Screamer and Seven Sisters. Rosman initially was able to accrue $125,000 as a starting budget, with the help of a friend who worked for VAE Productions, an independent studio that specialized in documentaries, based in Washington, D.C..
Casting
The majority of the casting for The House on Sorority Row took place in New York City, though Eileen Davidson and Janis Zido were cast out of the Los Angeles area. Davidson recalled auditioning at Rosman's house in Beverly Hills. Kate McNeil, who was cast in the role of Katey, won the part while still attending graduate acting courses in New York City.
Harley Jane Kozak recalled attending a casting call in a "warehouse in Manhattan" and receiving a phone call several weeks later with the news that she had won the part. Lois Kelso Hunt, who portrays the cantankerous housemother, was a local stage actress cast out of Washington, D.C..
Filming
The House on Sorority Row was the directorial debut of director Rosman as well as the first feature film of cinematographer Tim Suhrstedt; both had met while working as assistant directors on Brian De Palma's Home Movies (1980). Filming took place on location in Pikesville, Maryland, with establishing campus shots at the University of Maryland, College Park, in the summer of 1981. The production had originally been slated to shoot in Washington, D.C., where the production company was located; however, Rosman found the house location featured in the film in Pikesville, which was in foreclosure, allowing the crew to film for a low cost. Upon arriving at the house to shoot, the crew found two squatters living in the house, whom they allowed to work as video assistants. Vincent Perronio, a frequent collaborator with John Waters, agreed to serve as the film's production designer, and dressed the entire house to appear as a sorority.
The budget for the film was $300,000. However, the production ran out of funds midway through filming, and Rosman had to secure a loan from a cousin in Los Angeles in order to complete the film. Throughout principal photography, the cast stayed at Koinonia, a farm retreat in Pikesville where they lived together in "dorm-like" conditions. The film was a non-Screen Actors Guild production, and Kozak and McNeil both recall receiving $50 per diem compensation for their days on set.
While principal photography occurred exclusively in Maryland, additional transitional shots and pickups were completed in Los Angeles. Among these included the shot of Davidson's character being impaled through the eye with the cane.
Post-production
Film Ventures International, an independent distributor, purchased the film for distribution after principal photography was complete, and also gave the filmmakers an additional $125,000 to complete post-production (the majority of which went toward scoring and mixing the film). In an interview with director Mark Rosman, it was revealed that Lois Kelso Hunt's performance is entirely dubbed, as her voice was deemed not "scary" enough for the role. While her demeanor and performance were apt, Rosman found her voice not as husky as he had envisioned.
According to Rosman, Film Ventures requested two changes to the final cut of the film: The first was that the opening flashback scene, which was shot in black and white, be colorized; the sequence was then color-tinted to be black blue. The second change was in regards to the original ending. In the director's original ending, Katherine is discovered floating dead in the pool, apparently Eric's final victim. Film Ventures felt the ending too downbeat, so as a result Katherine survives in the finished version.
Music
The film's music score was written by Richard Band and performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded at Wembley Studios. The Washington D.C. based powerpop band 4 Out of 5 Doctors appears in the movie, performing several of their songs.
La-La Land Records issued a disc of Band's score in 2015.
Promotion
The one-sheet poster and advertising were created by Film Ventures International's regular advertising agency, Design Projects Incorporated. Design Project's owner, Rick Albert art directed the key art and title treatment design. The key art was illustrated by Jack Lynwood, who painted illustrations for many motion picture campaigns during the late 1970s and '80s. The copylines were written by distributor Film Ventures International's Edward L. Montoro.
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