Dead on Campus

It's somewhat embarrassing that we have to compare this movie to the many many OTHER Lifetime movie "sorority murder" movies - as if it is now a genre. But that's where we are. In this genre, it is a weaker entry. It's not murderous enough to be thrilling nor trashy enough to be a guilty pleasure.

What it is is a rather plodding murder investigation where yet another pritzy ditzy stuck up sorority president is named Alexa and ruins and/or murders people who stand in the way of her reputation.

When innocent do-gooder sorority sister Natalie, who knows too much, gets incriminated for drugs, she goes through about 6 flagrant breaches of due process in about 90 seconds.

And a plan to retrieve critical exonerating evidence relies on a series of very narrow suppositions. The final "reveal" relies on the well-worn lazy plot device to have the sorority president have what amounts to a confession broadcast to guests at a very important function.

In the end, complicit Alexa has to leave the sorority and the university, and is led away "in handcuffs". But to films credit, the writers never indicate she's charged with any crime because we all know that, as the daughter of a congressman and as the darling of all the powerful sorority alum, she's probably never going to spend a day in jail.