Iniciação (2021)

Curiosidades

Initiation is a 2020 American slasher film directed, co-produced, and co-written by John Berardo, inspired by his short film Dembanger, described as an edgy slasher about a cruel social media game that gets twisted out of control and takes place at a university where a masked serial killer is murdering teenagers.

Development

Initiation is based on the short film Dembanger, which Berardo created as a class assignment while he was attending the University of Southern California. The assignment was to create a "short film that dealt with social change". Berardo chose social media after viewing the ease with which people could create a profile on Facebook and how widespread its usage was.

Berardo wanted to expand the short into a full-length film after seeing the release of the 2014 film Unfriended, but wanted to explore the topic of social media differently. He also wanted to avoid using some of the common slasher tropes, as he felt that they were "inherently misogynistic; a giant man with a phallic sharp thing chasing a half-naked girl who's too stupid to be going out the front door when she's going up the stairs, it's insulting…

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