Rites of Passage (2012) on Netflix
R103 minsThriller
An anthropology student invites his classmates and professor to his family's abandoned ranch, once a sacred Chumash burial ground, to recreate an ancient ceremony. Nathan an anthology student is disappointed that the modern world neglects an ancient chumash ritual known as the rites of passage ceremony that involves…
Rites of Passage trailer
- Director
- W. Peter Iliff
- Writers
- W. Peter Iliff, Rick Halsey, Jonathan Sachar
- Studios
- Production companies, Voltage Pictures, Demarest Films, Atmosphere Entertainment MM
Cast
Nathan an anthology student is disappointed that the modern world neglects an ancient chumash ritual known as the rites of passage ceremony that involves steps needed for becoming a man according to chumash legends. Nathan convinces his profesor Nash a pedofilic university teacher who openly pursues sexual attraction with his female students to take their class on a field trip for the weekend to his family's old ranch which was once the site of ancient chumash indian rituals and countless rites of passage ceremonies. Nash agrees and the 2 of them take their class including Nathan's crush Dani who is a traumatized half chumash and half british female neglected by her parents for being a failure who is hungry for attention and is known for being a party animal and trainwreck. Unbeknownst to them the family ranch isn't abandoned and is the home of 2 drug addicted lunatics: Benny a lonely, delusional and awkward social incept who is addicted to a hallucination drug used in the rites of passage ceremony who wants to be part of an imaginary indian tribe in a far away place but to do so he must join them in death with a bride and Delgado a crazed drug dealer with a shotgun who…
