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Kill of the Week: Death By Wine Bottle in ‘Sorority Row’
Every week, we spotlight a kill that we just can’t get enough of. This is Kill of the Week.
From around 2006 to 2009, seemingly every successful slasher movie from the ’70s and ’80s was finding itself on the remake chopping block. That three-year span saw the release of countless slasher remakes, including Black Christmas, My Bloody Valentine, When a Stranger Calls, Halloween, Prom Night and Friday the 13th.
Among them was Sorority Row, a 2009 remake of the 1983 slasher The House on Sorority Row. The lack of name recognition for the original film no doubt contributed to director Stewart Hendler’s remake failing to make much of a mark at the box office, but he nevertheless brought to the screen a pretty damn fun slasher flick.
In his defense of Sorority Row, published here on BD back in 2014, Trace perfectly described the slasher remake as a mix between Mean Girls and Scream. The female-led slasher certainly didn’t take the sub-genre down any new paths, but fun characters, cool kills and a shotgun-toting Carrie Fisher earned it high marks in my book.
The most memorable maiming in Sorority Row takes place in a therapist’s office. The character Chugs Bradley lives up to her name when she lies down on a couch and chugs down a bottle of white wine. But the drink proves to be her last, as the killer comes up behind her and, well, this is where things get really unique.
After jamming the bottle deep down Chugs’ throat, the killer then slices her throat. Blood spurts up into the bottle, the end of which is sticking out of her mouth.
Like the film or not, you’ve gotta give this kill points for creativity!
The killer tomatoes are back in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, and the offiical poster for the brand new movie has been unleashed tonight.
Additionally, we’ve learned that the film’s theatrical release is set for this August, with a panel set for San Diego Comic-Con this month featuring the world premiere of the trailer.
While you wait, check out the official poster down below.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence will be released in select cities across the US beginning August 7th in major cities such as Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Diego, and others, and expanding to further locations throughout the month.
The fifth installment in the horror-comedy franchise pits the eternal power of nature against AI’s best and brightest.
In Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, a young biotech prodigy develops a revolutionary genetically engineered vegetable designed to solve humanity’s problems. But when the experiment spirals out of control, it unleashes a new generation of killer tomatoes, setting the stage for another outrageous chapter in the long-running cult franchise.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes co-creators Costa Dillon and J. Stephen Peace return to write and executive produce. David Ferino directs.
The film features an ensemble cast led by franchise icon John Astin (The Addams Family), reprising his role as Professor Gangreen, comedy legend David Koechner (Anchorman), Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight), horror favorite Catherine Corcoran (Terrifier), comedy veteran Dan Bakkedahl (Veep), Myrna Velasco (Star Wars Resistance), Vernée Watson (Shrinking, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), and Paul Bates (Coming to America).
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes launched in 1979, followed by 1988’s Return of the Killer Tomatoes, 1991’s Killer Tomatoes Strike Back, and 1992’s Killer Tomatoes Eat France.
The franchise also spawned an animated series in 1990.
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