(4) SORORITY ROW with Rumer Willis, Briana Evigan, Jamie Chung, Leah Pipes, Matt O'Leary, Margo Harshman, Audrina Patridge, Caroline D'Amore, Matt Lanter, Julian Morris and Carrie Fisher. Directed by Stewart Hendler (The Bridge).

IN the 1990s the Scream series very successfully parodied every cliche you normally encountered in a horror movie. All these same cliches appear in Sorority Row, but unfortunately it was intended to be a serious horror movie, not a comic look at the genre.

The film is based on the screenplay Seven Sisters by Mark Rosman, which was also the basis for the 1983 movie The House on Sorority Row, so you already know you are dealing with an unoriginal work.

The basic premise is also the same as in I Know What You Did Last Summer – a group of students accidentally kill someone (Audrina Patridge) and cover it up. Eight months later they start being sent video footage on their cellphones showing the night of the murder, and start getting taken out one by one.

The murderer is dressed like the killer from Scream and Scary Movie, only without the white ghost mask.

His weapon of choice is a wheel spanner (“pimped out” with various sharp objects for maximum gore effect), but the way he scrapes it along metal objects as he approaches his victims is much like the effect of the killer’s hook in I Know What You Did Last Summer.

Other scenes may remind you of Jawbreaker and even the Stephen King classic The Shining, while the party scenes could be out of any American college movie.

The cast is made up of relative unknowns.

Bruce Willis’s daughter Rumer, whose biggest role up until now was in House Bunny, is listed as the lead actress, which seems like scraping the bottom of the barrel.

She plays the nerd, Ellie, while Leah Pipes plays the popular girl, Margo Harshman is the promiscuous one, Briana Evigan plays the outcast and Jamie Chung is, in typical horror movie fashion, the one friend who comes from a different ethnic group.

But the one who really steals the scenes is Carrie Fisher (best remembered as Princess Leia in Star Wars), who plays the adult head of the girls’ sorority.

If you are a die-hard horror fan, you’ll enjoy it, just don’t expect anything original.