The Sisterhood of Night
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| Directed by | Caryn Waechter |
| Produced by |
Lydia Dean Pilcher Elizabeth Cuthrell |
| Screenplay by | Marilyn Fu |
| Based on |
The Sisterhood of Night by Steven Millhauser |
| Starring |
Georgie Henley Kara Hayward Kal Penn |
| Music by |
The Crystal Method Tobias Enhus |
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Evenstar Films
Cine Mosaic |
| Distributed by | Freestyle Releasing |
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Running time
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104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Sisterhood of Night is a 2014 film directed by Caryn Waechter and written by Marilyn Fu based on a short story by Steven Millhauser. The film premiered at the 2014 .
The story begins in Kingston, New York where Emily Parris (Kara Hayward) decides to get back at her classmate, Mary Warren (Georgie Henley), for ruining her audition for a school play. While Mary, forced by the theatre teacher, holds her audition, Emily steals Mary's phone and publishes all of Mary's text on her blog. Mary then retaliates by calling Emily a blog whore in front of the whole school, which landed both girls in the guidance counselor, Gordy Gambhir's (Kal Penn) office. Later that night, Mary writes on her Facebook wall that she will be taking a vow of silence, and afterwards deletes her Facebook and all other social media accounts. This is when Mary gets the idea to create the Sisterhood, and the first members she recruits are Catherine Huang (Willa Cuthrell) and Lavinia Hall (Olivia DeJonge). Together, the three girls venture out into the night, disappearing into the forest by the city border, and begin their ritual.
By the next school year, the Sisterhood has grown into a common knowledge between the girls at school, though no one except for those who are in it really knows what's going on in the woods at night due to a vow of silence each girl takes, and the girls that aren't in it want to be, but each member has to be chosen by Mary. Emily longs to be in the Sisterhood, and when a girl named Hilda gets picked instead of her, she steals the folded paper square each Sisterhood girl is presented with from Hilda's bag. She then memorizes it and makes her own version when she gets home. After figuring out the meeting place, Emily follows Hilda and another Sisterhood girl to the woods, hiding as the girls begin their ritual. While snapping a photograph, she gets spotted and is next seen lying in her bed, posting a new update on her blog. The update describes how she heard the girls chant dirty things, undress and touch each other, and then cut Emily's hand with a knife before touching her too. Later, Emily runs into Mary during Mass and proceeds to make a scene about all the things Mary did to her. Emily then faints and wakes up to Mary saying how she will never be one of them, and then leaves with Catherine and Lavinia.
Mary, Catherine, Lavinia, and the rest of the Sisterhood girls uphold their vow of silence when parents, teachers, and even reporters (who all have read Emily's blog) ask them about the Sisterhood. Lavinia's mother, Rose Hall, searches Lavinia's room and discovers a doll with a pentagram-like symbol drawn on the stomach. After Lavinia returns from a Sisterhood meeting, she is confronted by her mother who finds the same symbol tattooed under her rib age. At the same time, two more girls come forward with the same confession that what happened to Emily happened to them as well, causing more hysteria to rise. Emily and the two girls come up with a plan on how they will get Lavinia, a fragile girl who's struggling with her mother's constant dating, to confess about what the Sisterhood is really about. Lavinia, angry at her mother, searches her room and finds a book called The Joy Of Sex, which she secretly reads at night, masturbating afterwards.
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