Release Date: Dec 1, 1984 Wide
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The appealing Daphne Zuniga makes her inauspicious debut in this dreary slasher film as a pampered freshman sorority pledge haunted by memory lapses and bizarre, violent dreams involving her parents (Clu Gulager and Vera Miles). Despite some progress in dream-research, her condition becomes dangerously unstable during a Hell Week initiation stunt -- held after hours in her father's shopping mall -- further abetted by the discovery that a psychopathic killer has escaped from the local asylum.
Dec 1, 1984 Wide
Sep 19, 2011
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The Initiation is the worst kind of bad movie in that it often seems like two entirely different bad movies mashed together into one ungainly chore.
I had a decent time with The Initiation and it seems to be one of the better early eighties slashers. Daphne Zuniga makes for a likable enough lead, she ain't no Jamie Lee Curtis but shes pretty engaging. Vera Miles and Clu Gallagher add a bit of star power, though neither have particularly big roles. The film is
September 8, 2009Super Reviewer
a 1984 Slashed Flix, not real good but not real bad. Kelly Fairchild has to go through a College initiation, and a band of her friends start getting killed. Mellow Blood Scenes, some T&A and its surprising seeing full shot nudity in a relative mild film. Pay attention when watching this one, when girl gets shot with
January 24, 2009Super Reviewer
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