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The Initiation (1984)

Horror | 97 minutes
2,95 60 votes

Genre: Horror

Duration: 97 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Larry Stewart

Stars: Daphne Zuniga, Vera Miles and Clu Gulager

IMDb score: 5,6 (5.149)

Releasedate: 7 December 1984

The Initiation plot

"Be young, stay young ... and die young."

Kelly Fairchild has become a college student and member of the Delta Ro Kai sisterhood. All her life she has suffered from a nightmare where a man is burned. She meets a scientist who can help her. At the same time, she finds out that the hazing of her sisterhood turns out to be not so pleasant.

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Zinema (crew films)

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Future typecasting.

Simple slasher that, in addition to the disgustingly weak acting, has a somewhat surprising ending. However, the foregoing is quite clichéd and the murders hardly deserve an award for originality. There is also no gore enjoyment and so, despite the nice setting and a nice beginning, the viewer is left with a very average horror film. With the difference that the legendary Vera Miles, who strangely enough does not come out strong here, participates and Zuniga, known from Family Ties, breaks with any future typecasting.

Average.

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The story is a combination of a terrible event in the past that the lead actress Daphne Zuniga still has nightmares about and the hazing of the Delta Ro Kai sisterhood that she wants to join. The latter has little influence on the story, but it does affect the location of an indoor shopping center and the number of kills. The core of the story is very far-fetched, which makes the admittedly surprising ending seem unsatisfactory. 5/10

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Quite a nice video, actually.

The story might not amount to much, but that is actually somewhat typical of this genre—after all, you already know how it ends if you just look at who the most popular actress was at the time of filming. But the casting is okay; Zuniga does better than expected in her 'first film role,' which I believe was actually her second or third—and also in a somewhat different character than we are used to seeing from her, and she handles that quite believably as well.

Also worth mentioning is the soundtrack, or should I say soundscapes. Right from the start, that is something that stands out about the film. And the 'special effects' at the end are also quite well done; considering that there was no CGI and the accompanying trickery back then, some scenes are truly intriguing—how they managed to pull that off.

It goes without saying that much better films have been made in hindsight. But that doesn't suddenly make this one worthless.

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