Initiation (2020)

MOVIE #1,719 • 🍿🍿 • 06.11.24 I’ll be as brief as possible here: Initiation — sorry, Init!ation is a sub-Blumhouse core slasher that fails at pretty much every level (the look, the acting, the screenplay, etc.). Movies like this, that are so tied to a ‘capture the zeitgeist’ style (in this case: visualizing social media! it’s bad!), feel old the second they come out. Structurally, not only do they eliminate all the red herrings, but seemingly all possible characters. Meaning that the killer is either a totally insignificant player or someone we haven't met yet. Transgression or laziness: you make the call! I was simply too bored to care. (I won't ‘spoil’ it but it's very dumb, obviously).

tfw the toilet paper gets in the way of your tryhard stylization

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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. 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. It was released on October 8, 2020.