The Initiation of Sarah

TV Movie
1978
Not Rated
1h 36m

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A withdrawn young girl joins an unpopular sorority in college. It turns out she has psychic and telekinetic powers, and she uses them against a rival sorority.A withdrawn young girl joins an unpopular sorority in college. It turns out she has psychic and telekinetic powers, and she uses them against a rival sorority.A withdrawn young girl joins an unpopular sorority in college. It turns out she has psychic and telekinetic powers, and she uses them against a rival sorority.

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5.7/10

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Trivia
Often regarded as a rip-off of Carrie au bal du diable (1976), actor Michael Talbott appears in both films as a character named Freddy/Freddie.

Goofs
When Sarah comes down the stairs to go to for the birthday party for Paul Yates, her hair seems suddenly much longer than it was moments before.

Quotes
Sarah Goodwin: [Watches as Jennifer verbally torments Mouse] . Stop it!
[Jennifer is abruptly propelled backwards into the fountain]
Sarah Goodwin: My first day here I saw you and I thought you were beautiful, but I was wrong. All you care about is how popular you are. Everybody gives you everything. You don't have to work at anything, like friendship. You don't care about how other people feel. All you give a damn about is how good you look! Well I'll tell you something, Jennifer. One day all these poor, stupid girls who laugh at your cruelty are going to see how ugly you really are. And they'll hate you! And they'll turn on you and you won't have any friends left at all!
[Walks off, leaving Jennifer totally humiliated in front of her friends]

Connections
Referenced in The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: Episode dated 13 July 1982 (1982)

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7/10

Is It Me, or Does Morgan Fairchild Look About a Decade Too Old For College?

This "CARRIE For Seventies Television - With Witchcraft" doesn't quite go where you expect it to, thanks to a surprisingly sympathetic performance by Morgan Brittany as Sarah's adopted sister Patty, Key Lenz's complete commitment to Sarah's mousiness and the strength she finds once she uncovers her psychic (or is it witchcraft?) powers, and Tisa Farrow as Sarah's depressive violinist friend "Mouse". The rest of the cast doesn't fare quite as well, either due to less commitment to their roles or the simple fact they're completely unconvincing as college students - Morgan Fairchild, though only a year older than Brittany or Farrow, comes off more like a Bitchy Society Wife in her thirties than as Snooty Sorority Queen, while Robert Hayes (two years before AIRPLANE!) makes about as old a college student as the geriatric ones in MST3K favorite RING OF TERROR! Shelley Winters sadly turns in one of her over-the-top performances that she all too often gave in the Seventies, so when the final act "twist" comes in I doubt anybody's in the least surprised.

If you can get past that? It's not a bad TV-Movie - no TRILOGY OR TERROR, but enjoyable and with some strong lead performances.