Sorority Sisters

Holly Randall continues to rank among the brass at DP's favored directors, but "Sorority Sisters" is terrible.

It tries for that comical "Animal House" approach but none of the gags or slapstick are funny. Instead, it left a bad taste in my mouth due to rather nasty, mean-spirited hazing scenes involving the sorority's pledges.

Digital Playground gave Randall its two top contract artistes, Aria Alexander and Eva Lovia, to play the warring leads: Eva as former president of the sorority, now a neighbor, and Aria as current meanie running the Greek society.

Playing practical jokes on each other and creating (and disseminating via Social Media) incriminating sex tapes fills up the running time when the actresses aren't humping. Besides Cassidy Klein and a wasted Cherie DeVille as house mother, Black newcomer Jenna Fox is occasionally diverting but the uncredited femme pledges get the brunt of the demeaning action.

Their initiation rites include forced sex, humiliation and any amount of paddling/violence that runs completely counter to the "feel good, humorous escapism" the project intends to evoke. Apparently Randall and her DP writer/producer Lexi Sylver couldn't get a firm grip on what they were trying to achieve here, other than grinding out assembly-line porn.

Male cast, particularly overbearing Ryan McLane, non-actor Lucas Frost and a miscast Johnny Castle as a randy professor (I would have cast him as Shop teacher at best), do a very poor job.

I recently watched the TV remake (a decade old) "The Initiation of Sarah" starring Summer Glau and a talented starlet who didn't capitalize on this success, Mika Boorem in the title role. I had enjoyed the original on TV four decades earlier, and these tales of witches in a campus sorority show how much obvious quality material there is out there for Adult Cinema parody-minded folk to draw upon for inspiration, as opposed to the useless content of this DP release.