The House on Sorority Row (1983)

A lot of people out there love this movie. It raked in $10.6 million in the box office in its first two weekends back in 1983 and has made an appearance on more than a few Best Slasher lists over the years. The House on Sorority Row, like most early slashers, starts with about ten minutes of exposition followed by endless stalk 'n kills, one by one by one by one. Every single character, except for the final girl, gets plucked off by a mysterious killer. The concept of the movie is great and both the first and last ten minutes are a blast.

The first ten has so much going on it's crazy. Part of it introduces you to Mrs. Slater, the strict sorority house mother who is nothing like the house mother in Black Christmas, to say the least. In Black Christmas the house mother was just one of the girls. In this one she's more like a jaded private school nun. She basically put a huge target on her own back when she refused to let the graduating class have a graduation party.

So, as most sorority girls would, they "prank" Mrs. Slater by holding her at gun point until she begs for her life. That's funny right? And of course, in a shock twist, they end up accidentally shooting her dead and decide to stash her corpse. These girls and their crazy gags.