THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW

In 1981, seven sorority sisters—Katey Rose, Vicki, Liz, Jeanie, Diane, Morgan, and Stevie—celebrate their graduation at their sorority house on the far end of a sorority row. Their party is interrupted by the domineering house mother, Mrs. Dorothy Slater, who forbids the celebration. Angered, the girls prank her by stealing her walking cane, placing it in the unused outdoor pool, and forcing her at gunpoint to retrieve it. Startled, Slater causes Vicki to accidentally shoot her in the chest. To cover up the apparent murder, the girls hide Slater’s body in the pool.

At the ceremony, an unseen figure uses Slater’s cane to stab a partygoer. When guests attempt to enter the pool, the girls realize that turning on the lights will reveal the body. Stevie goes to the basement to disable the breaker, but is stabbed to death. Later, when the pool lights are switched on, Slater’s body is missing, heightening their alarm.

Convinced Slater is alive, the girls search for her. Morgan enters Slater’s room, only for the body to fall on her from the attic hatch. Vicki suggests hiding the body in an old cemetery. In the attic, Katey discovers children’s toys and a dead caged bird. Morgan is stabbed with Slater’s cane. Diane is murdered while starting a van to transport the body, and Jeanie is decapitated near the sorority house.

Katey finds a medical alert tag and calls the number, reaching Dr. Nelson Beck, who arrives at the house. Together, they discover Stevie, Morgan, and Diane’s bodies in the pool. Vicki and Liz drive to the cemetery with Slater’s body, but are killed by the assailant. Beck accompanies Katey to the cemetery, where they find Vicki and Liz’s bodies and Slater’s body still in the van.

Back at the house, Beck sedates Katey and reveals that Slater had a son, Eric, deformed and mentally impaired due to an illegal fertility treatment, whom he believes witnessed his mother's murder, to ultimately snap into homicidal rage. Beck plans to use Katey as bait to capture Eric and cover his crime. Eric arrives and kills Beck while Katey searches for Vicki’s gun, which fails to fire. She flees to the bathroom, discovers Jeanie’s severed head, and climbs to the attic. Eric attacks, and Katey shoots him repeatedly, before realizing the gun is loaded with blanks. Using a long spike that had attached an old doll's body to its head, she stabs Eric numerous times, causing him to fall through the attic door. Exhausted, Katey believes he is dead, but Eric opens his eyes.

Katey fends off the killer, Eric, using a spike after her gun fails, causing him to fall through the attic door. Though she believes he is dead, Eric opens his eyes at the end.

The ending delivers a classic slasher sting, revealing that the presumed-dead killer survives, leaving Katey’s fate—and the cycle of violence—ominously unresolved. The use of blanks in the gun heightens the sense of helplessness, and Eric’s final eye-opening shot cements the film’s grim, uncertain conclusion, characteristic of early '80s slasher cinema.