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The Initiation

  • 1984
  • R
  • 1h 37m
IMDb RATING
5.6/10
4.7K
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The Initiation (1984)
Slasher HorrorHorrorMysteryThriller

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 ritua... Read allAn 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.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
    • Peter Crane
  • Writer
    • Charles Pratt Jr.
  • Stars
    • Vera Miles
    • Clu Gulager
    • Daphne Zuniga
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.6/10
    4.7K
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    • Directors
      • Larry Stewart
      • Peter Crane
    • Writer
      • Charles Pratt Jr.
    • Stars
      • Vera Miles
      • Clu Gulager
      • Daphne Zuniga
    • 69User reviews
    • 75Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Vera Miles
    Vera Miles
    • Frances Fairchild
    Clu Gulager
    Clu Gulager
    • Dwight Fairchild
    Daphne Zuniga
    Daphne Zuniga
    • Kelly Fairchild
    James Read
    James Read
    • Peter Adams
    Marilyn Kagan
    Marilyn Kagan
    • Marcia
    Robert Dowdell
    Robert Dowdell
    • Jason Randall
    Patti Heider
    • Nurse Gladys Higgins
    Frances Peterson
    • Megan
    Hunter Tylo
    Hunter Tylo
    • Alison
    • (as Deborah Morehart)
    Paula Knowles
    • Beth
    Trey Stroud
    • Ralph Bonner
    Peter Malof
    • Andy
    Christopher Bradley
    Christopher Bradley
    • Chad
    Joy Jones
    • Heidi
    Mary Davis Duncan
    • Gwen
    Rusty Meyers
    Rusty Meyers
    • Nightwatchman
    Christi Michelle Allen
    • Kelly - 9 Years Old
    Cheryl Foster
    • Sorority Girl
    • Directors
      • Larry Stewart
      • Peter Crane
    • Writer
      • Charles Pratt Jr.
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    • Trivia
      Some of the early scenes at the mental hospital were not actually shot by director Larry Stewart. Peter Crane was originally attached to the film but the production got off to a rough start as shooting fell behind schedule and the budget started to be exceeded. Producers brought in Stewart to replace Crane on the film.
    • Goofs
      Kelly's mother runs outside to give her husband his glasses. Just after she mentions him "forgetting his head if it wasn't attached" the scene cuts to the car driving away. On the left, there is a crew member standing with his arms crossed.
    • Quotes

      Peter: I suggest you take two aspirin and go right to bed.

      Alison: With whom?

    • Alternate versions
      The UK video version was pre-cut by 59 secs with edits to a man on fire during a nightmare scene, shots of a man being stabbed with a rake, and a sequence which intercuts the stabbing of a woman with a sex scene. The 2003 Pegasus DVD is fully uncut.
    • Connections
      Featured in Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006)
    • Soundtracks
      Not Me
      Written by Terrence Murphy and Kenny Griffin

      Redbud Music (B.M.I.)

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    No sorority girl pillow fights or spanking parties, but it's not bad...

    (**1/2 out of *****) This okay slasher thriller tries to offer more than the standard slice-and-dice affair by having as its main character a young college student (Daphne Zuniga, a year after her cameo in the wretched "The Dorm That Dripped Blood") who is traumatized by an event in her past that caused her to forget everything up through age ten. From the opening scene, we already have a pretty good idea of the surprise involving the girl's secretive parents (played by Clu Gulager -- excellent in "Return of the Living Dead," but just mediocre here -- and Vera Miles from "Psycho"), but there's another twist at the very end that, in spite of some clunky hints here and there, is impossible to see coming (it's hardly fair, but it still provides a bit of a jolt.) With all the background and character development out of the way in the first half hour or so, we finally get to the more-familiar second half, where a group of sorority babes (including Zuniga) and frat boys break into a department building at night as part of an initiation stunt and are subsequently killed off by a maniac who uses a variety of gardening tools and other sharp objects. People are shot with arrows, shot with guns, shot with spears, stabbed, axed, and decapitated until the surprise killer is finally revealed (and it's probably not who you think.) Gaping plot holes abound, but, all in all, this one isn't too bad (and, besides, you're not supposed to pay attention to that kinda stuff in these kindsa movies anyway.)

    HIGHLIGHT: The pretty, blonde sorority girl happens to be holding the public address intercom microphone when she is attacked at the security guard's booth, and her shrieks echo throughout the entire building.
    • BillyBC
    • Mar 13, 2003
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    • Release date
      • December 7, 1984 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Blutweihe
    • Filming locations
      • Dallas, Texas, USA
    • Production companies
      • Georgian Bay Productions
      • Bruce Lansbury Productions
      • Jock Gaynor Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 37 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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