While trying to understand a frightening reoccurring nightmare, a pledge is coaxed into breaking into her father's department store by her sorority sisters, where a deranged killer targets the girls and their boyfriends.
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| Vera Miles | ... | Frances Fairchild | |
| Clu Gulager | ... | Dwight Fairchild | |
| Daphne Zuniga | ... | Kelly Fairchild | |
| James Read | ... | Peter | |
| Marilyn Kagan | ... | Marcia | |
| Robert Dowdell | ... | Jason Randall | |
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Patti Heider | ... | Nurse Higgins |
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Frances Peterson | ... | Megan |
| Hunter Tylo | ... | Alison (as Deborah Morehart) | |
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Paula Knowles | ... | Beth |
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Trey Stroud | ... | Ralph |
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Peter Malof | ... | Andy |
| Christopher Bradley | ... | Chad | |
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Joy Jones | ... | Heidi |
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Mary Davis Duncan | ... | Gwen |
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Kelly Fairchild has become a college student and a member of the Delta Ro Kai sorority. During all her life, she has suffered from a nightmare where a man is burning. She meets an assistant professor who can help interpret the dream. The sorority's initiation ritual is a nighttime breaking-and-entering into her father's department store. Written by Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords:
childhood trauma | sorority | female protagonist | secret | evil twin |Taglines:
. . the night new blood is pledged. See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
7 December 1984 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
A Iniciação See more »Company Credits
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Georgian Bay Productions, Bruce Lansbury Productions, Jock Gaynor Productions See more »
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Marilyn Kagan, who plays "Marcia," went on to host a top-rated radio show, on KFI in Los Angeles. As she is an LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker,) she took calls from listeners, and answered their therapeutic questions. See more »Goofs
In the final shot where Nurse Higgins is murdered in her station wagon, the crew members and their equipment can be seen reflected in the passenger side windows of the car. See more »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. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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This is one of those slasher films from the 80's that I love to watch. When it comes to good horror ideas, nothing gets better than a bunch of sorority girls being killed at a mall after midnight.
There are few things in this movie that are funny. It's mostly scary. And it has a nice twist at the ending. Rent it a your video store; if you can find it.