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Initiation (2020)

Initiation poster
Original title
Init!ation
Directed by
John Berardo
Genre
slasher film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 36m
Rated
R
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 159 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A social media game spirals out of control on a college campus. A masked killer begins murdering students one by one.

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What happens

Initiation (stylized as Init!ation) is a 2020 American slasher film directed, co-produced, and co-written by John Berardo, inspired by his short film Dembanger, which described as an edgy slasher about a cruel social media game that twisted out of control and takes place at a university where a masked serial killer is murdering teenagers. It stars Jon Huertas, Isabella Gomez, Lindsay LaVanchy, Froy Gutierrez, Gattlin Griffith, Patrick Walker, James Berardo, Bart Johnson, Shireen Lai, Kent Faulcon, Yancy Butler, and Lochlyn Munro. The film premiered at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival on October 8, 2020. It was released on May 7, 2021, by Saban Films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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