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The Hazing

Name: The Hazing
Director: Rolfe Kanefsky
Released: 2004
Duration: 87 min

Representation Score

2.5/10

Limited

2004

Director

Rolfe Kanefsky

Runtime

87 minutes

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The Hazing is a conventional genre piece that prioritizes slasher mechanics and suspense over social commentary. The narrative architecture relies heavily on established horror clichés, such as an evil professor and supernatural possession, rather than subverting social hierarchies. Because the film adheres to traditional collegiate structures and Western genre conventions, it lacks significant representation of diverse identities. The focus remains on the visceral experience of a group of students facing a night of survival. Ultimately, the film functions as a standard horror entry that does not engage with the deconstruction of identity or systemic power dynamics.

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Category Breakdown

Does The Hazing have LGBTQ+ representation?

Limited

The film follows a traditional horror framework focused on a supernatural threat. There is no explicit representation of LGBTQ+ identities or critiques of the assumption that everyone is straight or cisgender within the narrative.

How does The Hazing portray gender?

Fair

The story uses a standard fraternity and sorority dynamic. Female characters may find ability to act through survival, but the film lacks a deconstruction of established gender hierarchies.

How racially and ethnically diverse is The Hazing?

Limited

The setting suggests a homogeneous demographic common in mid-budget horror of this era. There is no indication of diverse casting or the use of metaphors to address racial dynamics.

How does The Hazing represent religion and culture?

Limited

The plot relies on established supernatural clichés like ancient incantations. It focuses on individual survivalism rather than critiquing Western institutions or social structures.

Does The Hazing include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no information regarding the inclusion of characters with physical, sensory, or neurodivergent disabilities in this production.

Present on Screen

The film utilizes a classic, high-stakes horror framework involving supernatural possession and suspenseful survival.
The fraternity and sorority setting provides a clear, recognizable social structure for a slasher-style narrative.

Limited or Absent

The narrative lacks visible representation of LGBTQ+ identities or non-assuming gender matches what was assigned at birth characters.
The story follows conventional Western collegiate clichés without addressing racial or ethnic diversity.
There is no evidence of character's ability to drive the story that subverts traditional gendered social structures.

Official Synopsis

The Evil Dead meets Scream as an evil professor, through an ancient staff and a book of incantation, possesses the bodies of a group of fraterity and sorority pledges during a night of "hazing" activities in an abandoned mansion. When the students meet one grisly death after another, the survivors finally realize it's the professor who is possessing their friends and killing them all off. Now none of them trust each other-- is it their friends or puppets of the professor that they're hanging with? Somone better figure it out quick... or none of them will make it through the hellish night of The Hazing!

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