10 Remakes Of Classic '80s Movies That Bombed Terribly
9. Sorority Row
The Original: One of the better 80s slashers, Mark Rosman’s The House On Sorority Row is your typical story of sorority sisters who kill their landlady when a prank backfires and are then stalked by her psychotic son. If you can suspend your disbelief for 90 minutes, then there’s lots of trashy fun to be had as a bunch of bad actors attempt to connect the dots.
The Remake: Bigger and slicker, yet somehow just as mindlessly trashy, this would-be remake plays more like I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, with another group of sorority sisters who accidentally kill one of their own and are killed off one by one after disposing of the body. Throwing out the original’s straightforward plot, Sorority Row builds to a Scooby Doo ending where the killer is unmasked and gives a long speech.
After opening at #6, the movie made only $11 million in the US, not even covering its $12.5 million production budget.