Obscure 80s slasher movie
“The Initiation” hits UK DVD shelves today (Monday August 5th) courtesy of Arrow films Arrowdrome label and they were kind enough to send me a copy to take a look at.
The film stars Daphne Zuniga (The Fly 2) as young college student Kelly Fairchild, who’s plagued
with nightmares about a traumatic childhood event, which had something to do
with her father being attacked by a stranger during a house fire.
The college psychologist is unsure of what to make of
things, but as we are soon to discover, it seems that the person in her
nightmares might be all too real.
As part of her college initiation, she has to steal the keys
to her wealthy father’s department store, where she and the other new sorority
sisters must spend the night as part of their initiation. But it seems that dodging
the security guard is going to be the least of their worries, as someone has decided to join their fraternity initiation and
is now stalking to corridors.
Meanwhile her psychologist has done a little digging into
her family history and discovers that not everyone in her family is who they
seem and he has a pretty good idea about who the killer might be…
Originally released back in 1984, the film is one of the
more obscure 80s slashers, which might have passed you by first time round.
Whilst the plot is rather run of the mill, it does boast an extremely
interesting cast, which includes former screen siren Vera Miles (Psycho),
horror B movie actor Clu Gulager (Return of the Living Dead) and of course
Daphne Zuniga, who previously starred in
“The Dorm that Dripped Blood” (AKA Pranks), and who went on to star in “The Fly
2” (though most will probably remember her from “Spaceballs”).
It is interesting to note that the film has a number of co-incidental
similarities with Wes Craven’s “A Nightmare on Elm
Street
The DVD includes the theatrical
trailer as an extra and the case includes a collectors booklet with linear
notes on the film by Callum Waddel.
Buy the UK DVD from Amazon.co.uk
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