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Subscribe Today; Nab A Screen Accurate “Initiation” Mask

John Berardo‘s campus slasher, INITIATION, is out today, and we’re giving new subscribers a chance to nab a hand-crafted mask, modeled after the one the killer wears in the film!

During a university’s pledge week, the carefree partying turns deadly serious when a star athlete is found impaled in his dorm. The murder ignites a spree of sinister social-media messages, sweeping the students and police into a race against time to uncover the truth behind the school’s dark secrets…and the horrifying meaning of a recurring symbol: a single exclamation mark.

With a cast including Froy Gutierrez (Teen Wolf), Lochlyn Munro (Scary Movie), Yancy Butler (Kick-Ass 2), Isabella Gomez (One Day at a Time) and Lindsay LaVanchy (Scream: The TV Series), INITIATION has been as an “inventive, poignant, modern twist on a teen slasher movie.”

Cast from a plaster mold using a vacuum-form process and hand painted, this mask is the work of craftsman, designer, fabricator and artist, Stan Dufek, who took heavy inspiration from director John Berardo’s early concept masks!

Subscribe to RUE MORGUE today for a chance to win, and see INITIATION today in theaters, on VOD, and Digital. Visit the film’s official website for purchasing info and follow @initiationfilm on Instagram. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kytr9nliDXE

Subscribe today to win your own “Initiation” inspired mask, courtesy of Saban Films!

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