Sorority Girl
                                                                                                                      
Director: Roger Corman
Year: 1957
Rating: 5.0
Sociopaths come in all shapes and sizes and colors and ages and genders. They were born missing something. Something that gives most of us empathy and morals. Some of that is learned, but I think much of it is just there or not. In this B film from Roger Corman he introduces us to a sociopath who is young, female, pretty and in a sorority. And scary as hell. Blackmail, spanking, seduction, cruelty, beatings all are part of her arsenal of intimidation. Very nicely portrayed by Susan Cabot as Sabra. One meaning of Sabra is a prickly pear. Cabot was about 30 years old when she played this role as were most of the sorority. Dick Miller as a boyfriend to one of the girls was as well. Cabot was to become a favorite of Corman and he cast her in The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent, War of the Satellites, Machine Gun Kelly and in her most famous role as The Wasp Woman.



The film only runs an hour and I expect the movie code stopped this from getting too nasty but we get Sabra spanking a pledge who didn't do enough sit-ups, trying to steal a boyfriend away, knocking out and blackmailing a girl, telling her mother that she hates her, and getting a secretly pregnant girl to nearly commit suicide. Corman also hints at lesbianism. This all in one or two days. Corman only goes wrong when Sabra sees the error of her ways and wants forgiveness. Sociopaths never say sorry, never admit they lost, never admit that they were wrong. We all know of one. Decent little film. A little surprised that this got through the moral censors as it is.