- Country: USA
- Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Release: 1984-12-07
- Director: Larry Stewart
- Writers: Charles Pratt Jr.
- Language: English
- Stars: Vera Miles , Clu Gulager , Daphne Zuniga , James Read , Marilyn Kagan , Robert Dowdell , Patti Heider , Frances Peterson , Hunter Tylo , Paula Knowles
- Runtime: 97 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Uneton yö (Finland) , The Initiation (Australia) , The Initiation - Rito mortale (Italy) , Iniciación satánica (Mexico) , La iniciación (Spain) , The Initiation (L'incubo) (Italy) , Natt uten nåde (Norway) , Voeux sanglants (France, French Republic) , The Initiation (India) , A Iniciação (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Blutweihe , Vér/csapda (Hungary) , Inicjacja (Poland) , Кровавое посвящение , The Initiation (Canada) , Voeux Sanglants (Canada) , The Initiation , Loja das Mortes (Brazil) , Иницијација (Serbia) , The Initiation (United States of America) , La iniciación (Mexico) , Natt utan nåd (Sweden) , The Initiation (United Kingdom) , Iniciação (Brazil)
- Plot: 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.
- IMDB:tt0087472
The Initiation Cast · · · ALL
Larry Stewart
Director
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
Trey Stroud
Ralph
Peter Malof
Andy
Christopher Bradley
Chad
Joy Jones
Heidi
Mary Davis Duncan
Gwen
Rusty Meyers
Nightwatchman
Traci Odom
Sorority Girl