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* AssholeVictim: Breanne, as sorority president, is very much TheFriendNobodyLikes, and, despite being horrified at a murder taking place at the house, most of the sisters aren't all that shaken up by her loss. At the climax [[spoiler:Jen finds a video of Breanne engaging in extreme look-shaming and fat-shaming of the girls, with Carly as her main target, explaining Carly's motive for her murder]].
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* AssholeVictim: Breanne, as sorority president, is very much TheFriendNobodyLikes, and, despite being horrified at a murder taking place at the house, most of the sisters aren't all that shaken up by her loss. At the climax [[spoiler:Jen finds a video of Breanne engaging in extreme look-shaming and fat-shaming weight-shaming of the girls, with Carly as her main target, explaining Carly's motive for her murder]].
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* BatmanGambit: Jen has been invited to join Beta Sig because [[spoiler:Carly, Alex, Natalie and Gabrielle are going to murder Breanne, and plan to frame Jen. They do this by exploiting the tension between Breanne and Jen, committing several infractions against Jen that Jen thinks are Breanne's fault. After finally coercing Jen to get into a physical altercation with Breanne, they record video of it, then kill Breanne with Jen's knife, setting up physical evidence and an apparent motive that leads police to suspect Jen is the murderer]].
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* BatmanGambit: Jen has been invited to join Beta Sig because [[spoiler:Carly, Alex, Natalie and Gabrielle [[EverybodyDidIt are going to murder Breanne, Breanne]], and plan to frame Jen. They do this by exploiting the tension between Breanne and Jen, committing several infractions against Jen that Jen thinks are Breanne's fault. After finally coercing Jen to get into a physical altercation with Breanne, they record video of it, then kill Breanne with Jen's knife, setting up physical evidence and an apparent motive that leads police to suspect Jen is the murderer]].
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* SinisterSororitySisters: Beta Sigma Eta is headed by AlphaBitch bully, [[spoiler:Breanne, who is murdered by [[EveryoneDidIt Carly, Alex, Natalie, and Gabrielle]]]], after video evidence is discovered of her severely look-shaming and weight-shaming the other girls, paying particular disrespect to her deputy Carly. As if that wasn't bad enough, [[spoiler:the apparently "nice" sisters only invited Jen to the sorority to exploit the tensions between her and Breanne, and then frame her for murder. When Alex feels bad and tries to confess to Jen, the other sisters murder her, too.]]
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* TokenMinority: Fiona, the only Black member of the sorority.
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Jennifer Taylor (Creator/ScarlettByrne) is a freshman at Whittendale University, eager to study architecture and to escape the stress at home, where her mother Melissa (Creator/SarahJaneRedmond) struggles with alcoholism. At school, she catches the eye of the members of Beta Sigma Eta, a popular sorority. Beta Sig sister Alex (Creator/NicoleMunoz) befriends Jen and invites her to join. Jen mingles with other sisters like Carly (Creator/MelissaRoxburgh), Natalie (Creator/EliseGatien) and Gabrielle (Creator/SarahDugdale), but is wary of Breanne (Claire Filipow), the overbearing chapter president. After Jen gets in a fight with her at a party, Breanne's body is discovered outside the sorority house, fatally stabbed with one of Jen's X-Acto knives. Jen must now fight off suspicion that she's a murderer, as she also tries to rebuild her relationship with her mother, who's sworn off alcohol.
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Jennifer Taylor (Creator/ScarlettByrne) is a freshman at Whittendale University, eager to study architecture and to escape the stress at home, where her mother Melissa (Creator/SarahJaneRedmond) struggles with alcoholism. At school, she catches the eye of the members of Beta Sigma Eta, a popular sorority. Beta Sig sister Alex (Creator/NicoleMunoz) befriends Jen and invites her to join. Jen mingles with other sisters like Carly (Creator/MelissaRoxburgh), Natalie (Creator/EliseGatien) and Gabrielle (Creator/SarahDugdale), but is wary of Breanne (Claire (Clare Filipow), the overbearing chapter president. After Jen gets in a fight with her at a party, Breanne's body is discovered outside the sorority house, fatally stabbed with one of Jen's X-Acto knives. Jen must now fight off suspicion that she's a murderer, as she also tries to rebuild her relationship with her mother, who's sworn off alcohol.
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* BetaBitch: Sorority vice president Carly is one for Breanne (so, [[{{Pun}} Beta's Beta Bitch]]), but she ends up [[spoiler:almost literally BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch by helping to kill her]].
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* BetaBitch: Carly is one for Breanne (so, [[{{Pun}} Beta's Beta Bitch]]), but she ends up [[spoiler:almost literally BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch by helping to kill her]].
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''Sorority Murder'' is a 2015 Creator/{{Lifetime}} [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek Movie of the Week]] {{Thriller}}, directed by Jesse James Miller and written by Bryan Dick.
Jennifer Taylor (Creator/ScarlettByrne) is a freshman at Whittendale University, eager to study architecture and to escape the stress at home, where her mother Melissa (Creator/SarahJaneRedmond) struggles with alcoholism. At school, she catches the eye of the members of Beta Sigma Eta, a popular sorority. Beta Sig sister Alex (Creator/NicoleMunoz) befriends Jen and invites her to join. Jen mingles with other sisters like Carly (Creator/MelissaRoxburgh), Natalie (Creator/EliseGatien) and Gabrielle (Creator/SarahDugdale), but is wary of Breanne (Claire Filipow), the overbearing chapter president. After Jen gets in a fight with her at a party, Breanne's body is discovered outside the sorority house, fatally stabbed with one of Jen's X-Acto knives. Jen must now fight off suspicion that she's a murderer, as she also tries to rebuild her relationship with her mother, who's sworn off alcohol.
!! ''Sorority Murder'' contains examples of:
* AlcoholicParent: Melissa literally misses seeing her daughter off to college because she's passed out drunk. After a few more bad incidents and having a HeelRealization about her bad relationship with Jen, she vows to reform.
* AllGuysWantSororityWomen: The Beta Sig girls party frequently with Whittendale's frats, and are also encouraged to pursue sexual shenanigans with them. This comes in handy for Jen because Darren already has experience sneaking into the house.
* AlmostDeadGuy: The LastWords of [[spoiler:Alex]], "the basement", give Jen a major clue as she investigates the murders.
* AlphaBitch: Breanne plays this role for the whole sorority, subjecting them to nasty verbal abuse.
* AssholeVictim: Breanne, as sorority president, is very much TheFriendNobodyLikes, and, despite being horrified at a murder taking place at the house, most of the sisters aren't all that shaken up by her loss. At the climax [[spoiler:Jen finds a video of Breanne engaging in extreme look-shaming and fat-shaming of the girls, with Carly as her main target, explaining Carly's motive for her murder]].
* BatmanGambit: Jen has been invited to join Beta Sig because [[spoiler:Carly, Alex, Natalie and Gabrielle are going to murder Breanne, and plan to frame Jen. They do this by exploiting the tension between Breanne and Jen, committing several infractions against Jen that Jen thinks are Breanne's fault. After finally coercing Jen to get into a physical altercation with Breanne, they record video of it, then kill Breanne with Jen's knife, setting up physical evidence and an apparent motive that leads police to suspect Jen is the murderer]].
* BetaBitch: Carly is one for Breanne (so, [[{{Pun}} Beta's Beta Bitch]]), but she ends up [[spoiler:almost literally BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch by helping to kill her]].
* ClearMyName: Jen is the police's prime suspect from the beginning, and spends the second half of the story trying to prove her innocence.
* EekAMouse: Jen and Alex find a dead rat under Alex's bed, which Jen immediately suspects was placed there by Breanne.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Indeed, the movie centers on a murder (''two'' murders, in fact) that happens in a sorority.
* {{Gaslighting}}: Jen's early attempts to claim innocence are dismissed as attempts to throw her sisters under the bus.
* GenkiGirl: Alex is the most bubbly and friendly of the Beta Sig sisters.
* InitiationCeremony: Jen gets one when she becomes a Beta Sig pledge.
* NeverSuicide: The climax has [[spoiler:Carly, Gabrielle and Natalie take Jen to the woods and place a noose around her neck, to hang her and make it look like she killed herself to avoid getting arrested]].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Breanne seems to have been inspired in part by Rebecca Martinson of WebOriginal/DerangedSororityGirl meme fame, with her verbal abuse of her sisters and berating them for not mingling with frat boys at parties.
* PlayingDrunk: Melissa does this at the climax, barging into the Beta Sig house looking for Jen, seeming to be wasted, to distract the sisters while Jen breaks into the basement to look for evidence.
* RearWindowInvestigation: After learning that she's going to be arrested for the murders, Jen escapes and goes back to the Beta Sig basement to find exculpatory evidence.
* RewatchBonus: A lot of the early scenes make more sense once the murder plot gets explained.
** At first, when Carly and some other sisters are sizing up the girls who attended Rush Week (and declaring Jen "perfect"), it just looks like they're talking about how well they'd fit in the sorority. Instead [[spoiler:they're discussing potential patsies for the murder plot]].
** Also, while Breanne's dislike of Jen is genuine [[spoiler:the plotters have been egging on the rivalry to make it appear that Jen would want her dead]].
* SacrificialLion: Breanne, after seeming to be set up as Jen's rival, suddenly gets killed. More shocking is [[spoiler:Alex getting murdered]].
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: The official trailer is entirely focused on the Beta Sig murder storyline and completely ignores Melissa, even though she has a huge chunk of screentime in the movie.
* TheOneGuy: Jen's love interest Darren and Detective Clark are the only significant male characters.
* ThoseTwoGirls: Natalie and Gabrielle are hardly ever seen apart, leading to their Beta Sig nickname "The Twins".
* TropaholicsAnonymous: Melissa ends up enrolling a ina twelve-step program to fight her alcoholism.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Jen and her struggles at the sorority are intercut with Melissa's struggles with drinking.
* VoiceoverLetter: We hear Alex's voice as she writes [[spoiler:a confessional letter to Jen]].
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Whittendale University, frequently mentioned in Lifetime movies, is specifically said to be located in the (fictional) town of Whittendale, UsefulNotes/{{Vermont}}. This contradicts other movies that suggest it's in or near UsefulNotes/LosAngeles.
* ReferencedBy/WilliamShakespeare: Not overt about it, but the murder of Breanne is staged much like the assassination of Theatre/JuliusCaesar, with several stabbers and the victim lured into a trap.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When [[spoiler:Alex decides to write a letter to Jen confessing that she was setting her up, Gabrielle and Natalie find out about it and kill her]].
''Sorority Murder'' is a 2015 Creator/{{Lifetime}} [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek Movie of the Week]] {{Thriller}}, directed by Jesse James Miller and written by Bryan Dick.
Jennifer Taylor (Creator/ScarlettByrne) is a freshman at Whittendale University, eager to study architecture and to escape the stress at home, where her mother Melissa (Creator/SarahJaneRedmond) struggles with alcoholism. At school, she catches the eye of the members of Beta Sigma Eta, a popular sorority. Beta Sig sister Alex (Creator/NicoleMunoz) befriends Jen and invites her to join. Jen mingles with other sisters like Carly (Creator/MelissaRoxburgh), Natalie (Creator/EliseGatien) and Gabrielle (Creator/SarahDugdale), but is wary of Breanne (Claire Filipow), the overbearing chapter president. After Jen gets in a fight with her at a party, Breanne's body is discovered outside the sorority house, fatally stabbed with one of Jen's X-Acto knives. Jen must now fight off suspicion that she's a murderer, as she also tries to rebuild her relationship with her mother, who's sworn off alcohol.
!! ''Sorority Murder'' contains examples of:
* AlcoholicParent: Melissa literally misses seeing her daughter off to college because she's passed out drunk. After a few more bad incidents and having a HeelRealization about her bad relationship with Jen, she vows to reform.
* AllGuysWantSororityWomen: The Beta Sig girls party frequently with Whittendale's frats, and are also encouraged to pursue sexual shenanigans with them. This comes in handy for Jen because Darren already has experience sneaking into the house.
* AlmostDeadGuy: The LastWords of [[spoiler:Alex]], "the basement", give Jen a major clue as she investigates the murders.
* AlphaBitch: Breanne plays this role for the whole sorority, subjecting them to nasty verbal abuse.
* AssholeVictim: Breanne, as sorority president, is very much TheFriendNobodyLikes, and, despite being horrified at a murder taking place at the house, most of the sisters aren't all that shaken up by her loss. At the climax [[spoiler:Jen finds a video of Breanne engaging in extreme look-shaming and fat-shaming of the girls, with Carly as her main target, explaining Carly's motive for her murder]].
* BatmanGambit: Jen has been invited to join Beta Sig because [[spoiler:Carly, Alex, Natalie and Gabrielle are going to murder Breanne, and plan to frame Jen. They do this by exploiting the tension between Breanne and Jen, committing several infractions against Jen that Jen thinks are Breanne's fault. After finally coercing Jen to get into a physical altercation with Breanne, they record video of it, then kill Breanne with Jen's knife, setting up physical evidence and an apparent motive that leads police to suspect Jen is the murderer]].
* BetaBitch: Carly is one for Breanne (so, [[{{Pun}} Beta's Beta Bitch]]), but she ends up [[spoiler:almost literally BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch by helping to kill her]].
* ClearMyName: Jen is the police's prime suspect from the beginning, and spends the second half of the story trying to prove her innocence.
* EekAMouse: Jen and Alex find a dead rat under Alex's bed, which Jen immediately suspects was placed there by Breanne.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Indeed, the movie centers on a murder (''two'' murders, in fact) that happens in a sorority.
* {{Gaslighting}}: Jen's early attempts to claim innocence are dismissed as attempts to throw her sisters under the bus.
* GenkiGirl: Alex is the most bubbly and friendly of the Beta Sig sisters.
* InitiationCeremony: Jen gets one when she becomes a Beta Sig pledge.
* NeverSuicide: The climax has [[spoiler:Carly, Gabrielle and Natalie take Jen to the woods and place a noose around her neck, to hang her and make it look like she killed herself to avoid getting arrested]].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Breanne seems to have been inspired in part by Rebecca Martinson of WebOriginal/DerangedSororityGirl meme fame, with her verbal abuse of her sisters and berating them for not mingling with frat boys at parties.
* PlayingDrunk: Melissa does this at the climax, barging into the Beta Sig house looking for Jen, seeming to be wasted, to distract the sisters while Jen breaks into the basement to look for evidence.
* RearWindowInvestigation: After learning that she's going to be arrested for the murders, Jen escapes and goes back to the Beta Sig basement to find exculpatory evidence.
* RewatchBonus: A lot of the early scenes make more sense once the murder plot gets explained.
** At first, when Carly and some other sisters are sizing up the girls who attended Rush Week (and declaring Jen "perfect"), it just looks like they're talking about how well they'd fit in the sorority. Instead [[spoiler:they're discussing potential patsies for the murder plot]].
** Also, while Breanne's dislike of Jen is genuine [[spoiler:the plotters have been egging on the rivalry to make it appear that Jen would want her dead]].
* SacrificialLion: Breanne, after seeming to be set up as Jen's rival, suddenly gets killed. More shocking is [[spoiler:Alex getting murdered]].
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: The official trailer is entirely focused on the Beta Sig murder storyline and completely ignores Melissa, even though she has a huge chunk of screentime in the movie.
* TheOneGuy: Jen's love interest Darren and Detective Clark are the only significant male characters.
* ThoseTwoGirls: Natalie and Gabrielle are hardly ever seen apart, leading to their Beta Sig nickname "The Twins".
* TropaholicsAnonymous: Melissa ends up enrolling a ina twelve-step program to fight her alcoholism.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Jen and her struggles at the sorority are intercut with Melissa's struggles with drinking.
* VoiceoverLetter: We hear Alex's voice as she writes [[spoiler:a confessional letter to Jen]].
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Whittendale University, frequently mentioned in Lifetime movies, is specifically said to be located in the (fictional) town of Whittendale, UsefulNotes/{{Vermont}}. This contradicts other movies that suggest it's in or near UsefulNotes/LosAngeles.
* ReferencedBy/WilliamShakespeare: Not overt about it, but the murder of Breanne is staged much like the assassination of Theatre/JuliusCaesar, with several stabbers and the victim lured into a trap.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When [[spoiler:Alex decides to write a letter to Jen confessing that she was setting her up, Gabrielle and Natalie find out about it and kill her]].
