Greek-related movies
 

I'm trying to compile a list of movies that feature fraternities and sororities...whether they be a bad or a good portrayal of the Greek system...or any type of movie......I just need help!

Here are ones I have already:

1. Animal House
2. Sorority Boys
3. The Skulls
4. Pumpkin
5. Legally Blonde
6. Van Wilder
7. Revenge of the Nerds

Thanks!

Just off your list Revenge of the Nerds has several sequels (each getting progressively worse). Legally Blonde is supposed to have a sequel coming out. The Skulls had a made for home video sequel that came out.

Three In The Attic
 

was a movie made in the 1960s, shot at the ATO house at North Carolina. It was a comedy about a fraternity guy named Paxton Quigley who was kidnapped by three x-girlfriends and imprisoned in an attic. Also, the 1960s movie The Graduate featured the Theta Delta Chi house & chapter at Berkeley.

Two cheesy 80's slasher flicks:

Sorority House Massacre

&

Sorority House Massacre Two...

The second featuring a sorority called "Sigma Pi" Im sure that the writers did A LOT of research on that one... :rolleyes:

How can they make a sequel out of that???

The almighty $$$ can make the movie industry create a sequel out of just about any movie.

And then there's the lifetime movie original "Dying To Belong" with Jenna Von Oy (From Blossom). It's a sorority hazing movie that we have to thank for perpetuating many stereotypes.

*Shudder*... My mom and sister saw that and actually thought that they did that... Lifetime and NBC "Moment of Truth" people sure churn out real good ones... :rolleyes:

I knew a while back there was supposed to be a movie out called "Going Greek" because I remember going to the website. "Can't Hardly Wait" has Jerry O'Connell in a "DIK" fraternity shirt, but just very briefly. And who can forget "PCU"? "Road Trip" has a fraternity, but these movies aren't necessarily *about* fraternities and sororities... I think "Black Christmas" and "Scream 2" also have sororities in them. Hmm, you might want to go through IMDb.com, and do a keyword search. That's what I did, and TONS of returns came back with things like "Fraternity Vacation" and such, but I only listed above the ones I'd seen because I didn't know what the other ones covered...

Good Luck,
L.

"The Sure Thing" with John Cusackand Anthony Edwards started the grand movie tradition of the Delta Iota Kappa (DIK) house in movies.... people are so creative:rolleyes:

This is true. It doesn't necessarily need a storyline...

All I know is that Reese Witherspoon has signed on for it, and it's titled "Red, White, and Blonde". Sounds interesting :rolleyes: I'm sure I'll see it-I do own the first :)

Another movie-I had to consult Internet Movie Database for this, since I couldn't remember the exact title, but it's called "Fraternity Row". I saw it on Encore a few summers ago. It has Gregory Harrison as a pledge who is hazed in the 50s. The beginning credits show pictures of all sorts of actual organizations (I remember KD and ATO specifically) but the chapters in the movie were fictional.

There was a movie about 5 women who lived in their sorority house one summer, and when the house was being torn down 20 years later, the remains of a newborn baby was found. Stars included Loretta Swit and 4 others who I can't remember but are fairly big names. This will bother me all day until I remember its name!!

If you included tv shows, both Happy Days and Beverly Hills 90210 have a Greek thread. Happy Days used real GLOs, though.

Good idea for a thread!
honeychile

I only heard about this movie since I work at a video store. It is called, "The Fraternity." Other than the title, I don't know anything about it! Also, I haven't seen this one either but it is called something like, "True Confessions of a Soroity Girl," something along those lines. It has Alyssa Milano from Who's the Boss and another girl, I think her name is Jamie. But, that is supposed to be a comedy.

The above movie was "Friendships, Secrets, and Lies" and came out in 1979.

honeychile

School Daze is a movie about sororities and fraternites. It shows hazing of pledges, a rivalry, and party. plus a step show competition among the fraternities. the ending is kinda strange though
TIRAMASU
DELTA PHI MU

The Fraternity is basically a B movie version of the Skulls, which in itself wasn't even a good movie.

That's how they made Cruel Intentions 2, From Dusk Till Dawn 2 AND 3, Urban Legend: Final Cut, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream 2 and 3, and Next Friday and Friday After Next.

"Friends Till the End" with Shannen Doherty, plays frequently on VH1 (or it did before VH1 started to blow chunks). It's a fairly positive portrayal of sorority women (Shannen is in a band and has other interests) and sororities in general, except the president of the sorority is a beeeyotch.

just as an aside, the ending isn't strange at all if you understand all the sub-plots & symbolism in the movie. The meaning of the ending is that we (African Americans in particular, but all people in general) need to wake up (out of one's daze) & stop letting petty things like skin tone, hair texture, greek affiliation, educational level, etc., divide us.

Sorority Girl (1957)
The story of the rich and beautiful girl who plots and schemes to find happiness, not caring who she hurts along the way.

The House on Sorority Row (1983)
Seven senior sorority sisters are soon sorry when they plan to play a pitiful prank on their house mother

Fraternity Vacation (1985)
A group of fraternity brothers leave behind their snowy Iowa digs for the sunny -- and scantily-clad -- sights of Palm Springs, California

Little Sister (1992 - Johnathan Silverman, Alyssa Milano)
As a prank, a male student dresses up as a girl to infiltrate a sorority house. His plan however becomes a bit sticky when he falls for his "big sister."

Confessions of a Sorority Girl (1993 - Alyssa Milano, Jamie Lunar)
An evil-minded college student is determined to destroy the lives of her fellow sorority sisters

Dying to Belong (1997 - Hilary Swank, Jenna von Oy)
A college freshman crusades for justice after her friend dies during a sorority hazing incident.

Just a few off the top of my head...

"The Tall Lie" (also titled "For Men Only") (1952)

From the black-and-white era, an anti-hazing film featuring Russell
Johnson (yes, from Gilligan's Island). A pledge is killed in an
"accident" after refusing to drink the blood of a murdered puppy
during an initiation ritual.

"Fraternity Row" (1977)

This one is really quite good in spite of it's anti-hazing theme. Set
in the early 60's and gets the overall atmosphere of greek life pretty
much dead-on. Also features a tragic hazing death.

"Reason to Believe" (1995)

This is one of my favorites. It's a "date-rape" film with the texture
of an Aftershool Special. Goes pretty far in depicting the sexual
free-for-all aspect of modern greek life. One of the highlights is
Holly Marie Combs from "Charmed" in a fairly explicit depiction of
oral sex (I sh*t you not), although this was cut out of the VHS
version so you have to catch it on cable. Also features Mark Metcalf
(Niedermier) and Kim Walker (Heathers) in supporting roles.

Yikes! So, what, did someone bury the baby there or something, hoping no one would find it?

I've never seen Cruel Intentions 2, but I head that it was kind of just a remake of the first one.

People have already seen previews of Legally Blonde 2? They were just filming on the CSUN campus last week... Manzanita Hall was renamed "V.E.R.S.A.C.E." and a lot of temporary shrubbery was put up Thursday and filming was on the Friday the week before Thanksgiving. I don't know if the main actors/actresses were there for that scene, but it took a whole day to film.

there was another lifetime movie that featured a fraternity (Kappa Pi) and how one of the brothers (Mark Paul Gossalear *Zach from Saved By The Bell*) raped a freshman girl (Candace Cameron *DJ from Full House*) at a fraternity party. Her brother is in the fraternity and he doesn't believe his brother would do that to his sister, etc. It was a pretty good film, we watched it in health class in high school.

The way I remember it, only 5 women & the housemother were living in the house that summer, all of whom became suspects, so they all got together & were trying to figure out who did it (before the police did). Loretta Swit's character was active in Pro-Life circles. Shelley Faberge (sp?) was another sister - but her character was gay, so she didn't have the baby, and Paula Prentiss was another, the "slutty sister", and she had an excuse. It turned out that while Paula Prentiss was cheating with one of the other women's fiance, the fiancee had a baby at 6 months, and she & the housemother dropped it down between two walls into the basement, already dead.

It ended with the big confession, and the five of them walked into the courthouse arm in arm to each say that she was the guilty one.

honeychile

What about PCU? A 1994 ripoff of Animal House

higher learning had a few fraternity things in it

"The Graduate" isn't about fraternity life but there is one scene where Dustin Hoffman runs into the Theta Chi Delta house looking for the man who's going to marry his girlfriend. It's not a big scene but it's a pretty important scene.

Ahh, yes, I remember that sorry-excuse for a movie.
*shakes head in disgust*
Everytime I go to an event now, my bloodsister says to me (sarcastically, of course) "Are they gonna hang you from a sheet off of a building?"

There was a play so many years ago called "Vanities" (I don't think it was ever a movie). It was a story about 3 college co-eds. I'm not sure if they were Kappas or just wanted to be Kappas, but it mentioned Kappa Kappa Gamma. I can't remember if it mentioned Kappa in a flattering light or not! I think Annette O'Toole was one of the actresses. I want to say Meredith Baxter was in it also but can't be sure.

I remember this one! It was done very well, too. I think there were only the 3 characters, and it showed them in high school, college, and about 10 years after college. Meredith Baxter WAS one of them, and I remember them as being Kappas, too. I think the Broadway show was taped for tv eventually.

honeychile

In the late '70's there was a horrible sorority movie with Shelly Winters as the house mother. It was a sorority of outcasts and had something to do with witchcraft. They portrayed the other sororities as snobs and this one was just plain weird. Can't remember the name, actually don't want to remember. I just remember cringing at how awful it portrayed Greeks during a time with membership was really down.

DaffyKD

hahahahahaha....

this movie is called "The Initiation of Sarah." Hey, when you have Morgan Fairchild AND Morgan Brittany in the same flick, you know it's got to be high quality!! If you have the Plex channel, you can probably catch this one since they run it quite often.

How about the classic underdog movie: Revenge of the Nerds? You get all of the cheese, all of the stereotypes, but somehow it still makes me laugh.

"Burning Down the House!"

And you have Anthony Edwards back when he had hair.



(ps-- The sequels SUUUUUUUCK.)

I love this thread!
Are any of these movies good for use with anti-hazing seminars for sisters?
Just curious! Thanks!
Tau Love
Lil E

What about the fairly recent flick: 'Sorority Boys" You gotta love a fraternity that they name KOK...

Hmmm if i'm not mistaken I think i vaguely remember there being something about fraternaties on the movie "Orange County".. it wasn't part of the dominating theme of the movie, but I think there was a teensy part.. like a party or something.

And don't know if this has been mentioned on this thread yet, but what about Van Wilder?

Van Wilder was an awesome movie - especially the orthodox jewry party... I'm sure myself, AEPis, and other Jewish students really appreciated that scene!