
The Initiation(1984)
An amnesiac sorority member who has been plagued by a recurring nightmare is stalked alongside other coeds by a killer in a deserted department store where they are completing a hazing ritual.


“A lesson in terror.”
A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds, committed by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer.

Leonard Mann
Lt. Judd Austin

Rachel Ward
Eleanor Adjai

Drew Snyder
Vincent Millett

Joseph R. Sicari
Taj
Nicholas Cairis
Gus
Karen MacDonald
Carol

Annette Miller
Helene Griffin
Bill McCann
Gary
Margo Skinner
Stevie Cabot
Elizabeth Barnitz
Kim Morrison
Night School is a horror, mystery, thriller film released in 1981 exploring themes of chase, ritual, boston, massachusetts, investigation, college, suspicion. Directed by Ken Hughes, it stars Leonard Mann, Rachel Ward, Drew Snyder. A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds, committed by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer.
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