The R-rated slasher, Sorority Row, is pretty standard for a modern (2009) slasher. I've certainly seen worse and this one had a couple of faces that I recognized: Rumer Willis, Jamie Chung (super-cute) and omg the queen Carrie Fisher as the Theta Pi housemother.
A prank goes horribly wrong at a house party and a sorority sister (Megan) ends up dead. Rather than go to the police, four of her sisters (Jessica/ringleader and bitch archetype; Chugs/promiscuous; Claire/second fiddle to Jessica; Ellie/smart and nervous) cover it up, dumping the body down a mine shaft and then blackmailing a fifth sister (Cassidy/heroine and too good to be in a sorority but loyal to her sisters despite their faults) into keeping it secret. Eight months later, it's graduation and the Theta Pis have one last house party to celebrate. Mrs. Krenshaw tells them to have fun, be safe and don't damage the house. SPOILER: they burn it down.
A hooded, masked killer starts picking off everyone who knew about Megan's murder, at first using a tire iron like the one that was used to kill Megan, and then adding knife blades to make it extra. The bodies pile up, as they do in a slasher: in addition to the sisters getting picked off, several seemingly-random bystanders are killed too, until you realize that they also knew or found out about the murder. The killer is keeping it secret by killing everyone involved. Some of the murders are inventive - wine bottle and flare gun, I'm looking at you - others are the standard stabbings expected in this sort of movie.
I jumped a couple of times but generally, this isn't a tension-building scary slasher; it only has a medium amount of blood. And, in a nice twist, all the male characters looked the same - I literally could not tell them apart.
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