The film starts off like a Bad Neighbours sequel and sets itself up as a heavily-generic campus slasher flick with all necessary tropes firmly in place...and then it turns into something far more sober and mature whilst still delivering effectively as a horror film. There is some sly subversion of genre codes at play, in particular with how characters and gender are used with some unusually interesting depth of how the characters respond to the unfolding situation on display, and the story has good momentum and the film is confidently directed and performed. It is a shame that both the identity of the mirror-masked killer and the motive are evident quite early on, but Init!ation has plenty of ideas and is delivered well as a strong modern take on a well-worn sub-genre.
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