The evil Samantha Sloan
Samantha Sloan (Shaylaren Hilton) is the main villainess from the 2022 Lifetime film, Are My Friends Killers? (originally titled, Secrets on Campus; airdate September 9, 2022).
Introduction[]
Samantha Sloan is a student at Woodford, a college that was attended by the film's main protagonist, Zoey Connors. Her introductory scene saw her welcome Zoey to Woodford, and later reveal that she was part of a group known as The Select, which consisted of legacy students, with one of them being David Devine--who charmed Zoey during his own introduction. Another Select student was Lauren Price, who was Zoey's best friend, but the film's opening showed Lauren collapsing and dying while jogging.
Regarding Zoey, she ended up as a Woodford student due to Lauren's mother paying for her tuition in full, though Mrs. Price later informed Zoey that she had suspected that her daughter was murdered, and she placed Zoey in Woodford to find Lauren's killer. The film revealed that Lauren was writing an exposé on The Select, which revealed the group's history of criminal activity, which included bribery.
Heel Turn[]
Samantha attempting to kill Zoey
After finding out about Lauren's exposé, Samantha turned heel by killing Lauren, doing so by lacing Lauren's water bottle with an overdose of potassium chloride. The villainess used prescribed pills that belonged to Lauren's roommate, Ming-Hui Wu, who had known about Lauren's plans and the true circumstances behind Lauren's death. As for Samantha, she continued being warm and friendly to Zoey, while also stalking not only Zoey, but Ming as well. Ming revealed the truth about Lauren to Zoey, and afterwards, she was confronted by David before Samantha (in a hooded and masked disguise) tracked Ming and tossed her over the railing, killing her before stealing Ming's laptop.
Zoey found out about Ming's death, as well as Lauren's plans to expose The Select, and regarding Samantha, while she acted mournful about Ming, she ominously reminded Zoey that she was "one of us now." With the help of fellow student Adam, Zoey distracted Samantha so Adam could search her room, where Ming's pills were found. However, due to not having enough, Zoey attempted to incriminate David and Samantha, only for the latter to discover Zoey's phone recording and eject her, but while Adam was recording, Samantha admitted to David that she killed Lauren and Ming to protect themselves and The Select.
After catching Adam recording the duo, the villainous pair abducted Adam before arranging a meeting with Zoey at the school's football field, where the evil Samantha appeared in her disguise and boldly admitted to the murders, adding that The Select was powerful than everyone before ordering David to bring Adam out. Zoey informed Samantha that Lauren had an extra copy of her story and presented it, leading to the villainess brawling with Zoey and attempting to kill her a shotput ball, while commenting that she would have no way to explain Zoey's murder. At that moment, Detective Todd appeared and held the villainous pair at gunpoint, which was followed by Samantha and David being handcuffed and arrested.
Victims[]
- Lauren Price (fatal spike caused by her drink, OD)
- Ming-Hui Wu (fell to death)
- Adam (beaten through punching with David, but survived)
- Zoey Connors (attempted to bludgeon on rock, stopped by Detective Todd to arrest Samantha)
Trivia[]
- This was Shaylaren Hilton's very first villainous Lifetime film role.
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