The Trailer:
Cast: Sarah Booth, & Kimberly-Sue Murray
Synopsis: After a hazing tragedy landed both Corey (Sarah Booth) and Elaina (Kimberly-Sue Murray) in prison for two years, they now seek revenge on the sorority sisters at The Scarehouse.
Hmmm...so here we have another tale of girls who have been wronged and now seek justice in the most extreme way possible. I'm not saying Corey and Elaina didn't deserve justice after what those girls lead them to, but is killing them really going to make anything better? Nope, not one bit. And then the way in which the director revealed to us why Corey and Elaina are seeking revenge is kind of choppy. The past is shown through video footage filmed by one of the sorority sisters, whose name I can't recall and really don't care about. But at first I was confused as to what the footage was supposed to be, I didn't realize until about 20 minutes in that it was showing me what happened to Corey and Elaina that lead them to prison. The main reason for my delayed realization being that the girls shown in the footage aren't easily recognizable to the girls who are now entering the Scarehouse (a haunted house devised by Elaina for the purpose of trapping the sorority sisters and/or killing them). Once I did realize what the footage was, I was immediately annoyed by it. My annoyance doesn't lie in the found-footage-esque type of filming, but in the fact that it takes so long to reveal to us why Corey and Elaina feel like they deserve some sore of justice and, more importantly, the big reveal isn't all that bad. I mean, what the sorority sisters did was shitty, but it certainly doesn't justify the torture that Corey and Elaina are now doling out to them. It's overkill. Let's take a moment to discuss the sorority sisters, shall we? I never learned any of their names, you know why? Because I didn't care about any one of them. They're all flat, one-dimensional, archetypal college girls. Nothing stands out about any of them, so when they're killed off, I felt nothing. Honestly, they all seem like a rando group of girls who would never be friends in real life, and I couldn't comprehend why either Corey or Elaina wanted to be in their sorority. Then there's the killings. So, Corey mentions at one time or another that they have planned the killings of each girl, but I don't understand their plan. The first girl who enters the scarehouse is killed almost immediately, but then the second girl is instead taken to a room where she is tied up. We're never given an explanation for why they chose this fate for some girls or death to others, it doesn't make sense. Also, the ending was clear and obvious from about a mile away. And, again, I didn't understand the motivation behind it. To me, I think it would've been more effective to incriminate the girls in the crime that got Corey and Elaina sent to jail, rather than kill them, which probably would've made for a better movie. But oh well.
Overall, The Scarehouse has some decent kill scenes and satisfactory acting, though it's not very innovative or imaginitive in any way. I, honestly, lost interest about 5 times throughout the movie, but just kept watching in hopes that it would somehow exceed my expectations. It never did. Would I watch it again? No.
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