
The House on Sorority Row(1982)
When the senior sorority sisters of Theta Pi decide to do in their demented house mother, someone seeks revenge, and begins a night of terror and madness.


“Be young, stay young ... and die young.”
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.

Vera Miles
Frances Fairchild

Clu Gulager
Dwight Fairchild

Daphne Zuniga
Kelly Fairchild

James Read
Peter

Marilyn Kagan
Marcia

Robert Dowdell
Jason Randall

Patti Heider
Nurse Higgins
Frances Peterson
Megan

Hunter Tylo
Alison (as Deborah Morehart)
Paula Knowles
Beth
The Initiation is a horror, mystery, thriller film released in 1984 exploring themes of nightmare, ritual, psychopath, murder, sorority, serial killer. Directed by Larry Stewart, it stars Vera Miles, Clu Gulager, Daphne Zuniga. 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.
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