The Initiation (1984) from Tuna and Johnny Web (Uncle Scoopy; Greg Wroblewski)

Tuna's comments in yellow::

This is a teen slasher, complete with escaped mental patient, sorority initiation, and an excuse to lock all the victims in a location with the killer. As the film starts, a total bitch of a nurse yells at a horribly burned scarred gardener/patient, As she leaves work, she is murdered with a gardening implement. We learn that eight patients escaped, including the gardener.

College student Daphne Zuniga is having nightmares that end with someone catching fire. She has total amnesia about her childhood, and these nightmares are nearly constant. Zuniga's mother and father have never wanted her to see a psychologist, and they try to keep her from seeing a post grad who does dream research.

She is pledging a sorority, and her final requirement will be to get the night watchman's clothing from her rich father's mall. The sister in charge of the pledging ritual lets three boys and herself into the building to scare the pledges. Meanwhile, the father is killed by the omnipresent gardening implement, and the actual night watchmen is killed before the girls enter.
 

The film didn't build any tension, the gore effects were nothing special, and other than the obligatory shower scene, where we first see Hunter Tylo's goodies, it was a very dull watch. Tylo also changes tops in the department store, in case we have forgotten by then what her breasts look like.

Scoop's comments in white:

The Initiation is an 80s-style teen slasher film with college kids locked in a mall overnight with an insane killer. You know, the usual stuff.

The fact that it is a teen slasher movie is, incredibly enough, the good news.

The bad news is that it is not a good one.

• The deaths are neither creative nor grisly, and often take place off camera. The dead bodies are used as props to scare the audience by surprising those characters who are still still alive. It's the ol' "open the closet and a dead friend falls out" trick.

• The solution to the basic "psychological mystery" is one that is completely obvious to everyone except the characters in the film. Let's see, a twentyish girl has had recurring nightmares since age nine, and doesn't remember anything before that time. When she's analyzed in a dream monitoring lab, her brain waves are atypical for a dream state - as if she weren't "inventing" the dream. Now it should be obvious to you that her dream is not a series of  imaginary images, but real ones, and that her dream is actually a repressed memory from the period of early childhood which she can't remember. It may be obvious to you, but it was not obvious to the guy writing his Ph.D about dream analysis.

• The solution to the "murder mystery" is even worse. Two words: "evil twin".

• It's filled with sub-par acting performances, even by the lackadaisical standards of teen slasher films.

In short, the fully dressed portion of the entertainment is not really watchable. It's not very scary, or very grisly, or very mysterious, or very professional.

On the T&A side, there isn't much, but what there is is definitely worth watching, namely the full monty from future soap opera star Hunter Tylo, then known as Deborah Morehart. (Long story condensed: her real name is Deborah Jo Hunter, Morehart is her first husband's name, Tylo is her second husband's name.)