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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Not For Children, Adult Language, Sexual Situations Movie Release: 1993 DVD Release: 01/23/2001 Format: DVD - Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 22 mins Studio: Dimension Members Wishing: 2 Genres: Drama, Melodrama, Teen Movie

This campy remake of Roger Corman's 1957 drama Sorority Girl was part of a series of made-for-cable adaptations of old American International Pictures titles, prepared by original co-producer Samuel Z. Arkoff. Uli Edel captures just about the right over-the-top theatrics in this period drama, set at the end of the 1950s at a small college campus. Jamie Luner of TV's Profiler and Melrose Place, plays Sabrina, a troubled and sadistic co-ed newly arrived at college, who proceeds to try and dominate the students around her, manipulating the men and tormenting and disrupting the lives of the women. She's not above blackmail and fabricating vicious lies to get what she wants, showing a potentially murderous streak as well. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide

Jamie Luner - Sabrina
Alyssa Milano - Rita
Brian Bloom - Mort

This was one of a series of cable television remakes of B-pictures produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff and James H. Nicholson at American International Pictures in the late '50s. As directed by Roger Corman in 1957, Sorority Girl (also known as Confessions of Sorority Girls) was a character study of a sadistic young woman who preys on those around her in a quest for control. Made on a shoestring budget, it benefitted mostly from a strong performance by Susan Cabot in the lead. Confessions of Sorority Girls is a strange hybrid of a movie. It attempts to recreate a late '50s to early '60s setting, in a manner vaguely similar to National Lampoon's Animal House; in keeping with that effort, the score has lots of period songs, most notably "I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday," which appears in both a Fats Domino rendition and a more recent recording by Sheryl Crow. The performances all have an over the top quality that makes the first 30 to 40 minutes of the movie a great deal of fun, but can't quite sustain 78 minutes of plot; overall the Corman original is more entertaining for its length, but this movie is fun to look at once.
The disc looks great. The director and cinematographer aimed to make this remake look as good as Corman's original looked drab. Jamie Luner and Alyssa Milano look stunning throughout, which seems to be the main point of the casting in this campy drama, pairing the two TV stars opposite each other. Lots of late-'50s and early-'60s rock & roll songs litter the score, including "For Your Love" by Ed Townsend and "Since I First Met You" by the Robins, and they sound very good. The 20 chapters are more than adequate to break the movie's highlights down. The disc includes no trailer, but does offer promotional clips for other films in the Dimension library, on a very simple menu that pops up automatically on start-up. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide