Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution support
provided by MVD Entertainment Group, will release a newly restored Blu-ray edition of director Larry Stewart’s 1984 chiller, The
Initiation on Nov. 8
This is the film that literally launched the film career of
Daphne Zuniga — soon Vision Quest, The Sure Thing and her
legendary performance in Spaceballs as Princess Vespa would
follow in short order.
This classic “slasher” film begins with two separate, but
related narratives — a college student named Kelly (Zuniga) has pledged a
sorority and there is a deadly breakout at a nearby nut house. Of course these seemingly random events will
come together and much carnage will ensue, but not before a great deal of skin
is revealed at the sorority house.
If you are a genre fan, then you will immediately recognize
the silly sorority “initiation” of Kelly and two other pledges (Marilyn Kagan
and Hunter Tylo) — breaking into a shopping mall after hours — and the college
“boys” dispatched to terrorize them as the raisonnement
for the formation of “the victim pool.”
Every good slasher film needs a victim pool … preferably peppered with
attractive young women.
Once inside the department store, a mysterious stalker — a
delightful twist that you really don’t see coming as the script gives you
plenty of red herrings — begins picking off the college students one, by one …
by one!
Bonus features include commentary from the podcast group, “The
Hysteria Continues,” and two newly minted video sessions with actors Christopher
Bradley and Joy Jones.
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