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One of the best low-budget horror films in recent years, The Hazing features a bunch of co-eds forced to endure a Halloween Night fraternity/sorority initiation at Hack House, an abandoned mansion and site of a mass murder. Things get scary for real when one of the school’s professors that’s been dabbling in black magic (the one and only Brad Dourif) ends up haunting the place and begins possessing each of the students. What sets The Hazing apart from a lot of its brethren is that it’s not afraid to go for the highest highs and lowest lows; the scene where a session of man-on-woman oral sex goes gruesomely, horribly wrong recalls the extremist early works of Peter Jackson (Dead Alive) and Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) in its sick creativity, let’s-go-for-it subversiveness and, yes, dark and clever wit. Nectar Rose wins top honors as the hot blonde scream queen (and recipient of the aforementioned oral pleasure/pain), though genre veteran Tiffany Shepis delivers some creepy