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THE INITIATION

1984 • US HMDB
December 7, 1984

An amnesiac sorority member who has been plagued by a recurring nightmare is stalked alongside other coeds by a killer in a deserted department store where they are completing a hazing ritual.

Directors

Larry Stewart

Cast

Vera Miles, Clu Gulager, Daphne Zuniga, James Read, Marilyn Kagan, Robert Dowdell, Patti Heider, Frances Peterson, Hunter Tylo, Paula Knowles
Horror Thriller Mistero

REVIEWS (1)

MC

Marco Castellini

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Kelly Fairchild is a college student and a member of the Delta Ro Kai student fraternity. For several years, the young woman has had a strange recurring dream where she sees a man dying burned. To get help interpreting this dream, she turns to a university professor. Meanwhile, the day of the initiation to join the fraternity arrives: Kelly, along with some friends, will have to sneak into a supermarket and spend the night there, but in the large store there is also a ferocious killer who begins to reap victims... A negligible slasher movie born in the wake of successes like "Friday the 13th" and "Halloween"; the story is always the same: a group of wild and party-loving young people who are mowed down by a mad assassin whose identity, as usual, will only be revealed in the final twist. Therefore, originality close to zero, but some good moments of suspense and a couple of murder sequences "well made".