re: Was Freshman High School hazing a real thing at your High School like they show in movies?

Yes, to a degree. Though, of course, the movies dramatized and made it to be a far more elaborate and big thing than it actually was, as they do with all things.

In my town it kind of was. The paddle got brought out on some but not many. My HS was 10-12. We would have a sophomore drive us and carry our cooler around at parties. Football practice sucked arse in the film room as a sophomore because as soon as the coaches walked out the lights would go off and the seniors would throw chairs and shite blindly. My junior year a lot of my friends a year older got suspended because of baseball team hazing. Essentially flickered lights on and off and the sophomores had to go through a “gauntlet” with some getting hit by belts and at the end someone nailed them with an empty trash can which was hilarious at the time. Just the trash can thing not the belts and such. I doubt any of that goes on anymore it’s been 14 years since I graduated

ETA: HottyToddy7 can attest to the above as he was a senior when I was a junior

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I got my arse licked and lunch money taken

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id give up my lunch money to have my a-hole licked too

Band hazing was pretty bad.
Beat people with pillowcases with stiff in them. Chinese sit ups.
Pantsing kids.
One guy got painted on then duck taped to a flag pole.

Yes. The hazing was to shave your head bald. In the 60s when everyone had long hair. The seniors to be would chase you and hold you down while being shaved. Whoever got shaved wore a bucket hat as a sign that he was already shaved. I spent the entire summer with eyes in the back of my head.

Also, seniors would turn their class ring backwards and pop you on the head.

I was repeatedly paddled over the hood of a muscle car by a fifth year senior

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I was repeatedly paddled over the hood of a muscle car by a fifth year senior

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Supposedly Afleck broke his ankle in one of those scenes. Not sure if it's in the first scene where he drives up where you can see his boot twist or later when he gets paint poured on him and smashes the paddle...his ankle turns again in that scene as well.

Had a POS football coach who thought players deserved a lick with a paddle before receiving their letter jackets. Refused to purchase one just to deny that jerk his pitiful satisfaction. Laughed out loud when I heard he died.

Yes - if you were in band or hung out in the jocks area.

No - if you hung out with the heads. Heads = Firebird/Camaro driving types that wore metal concert t-shirts, moccasin boots, did the doobage, and were generally a discipline problem at the school, oh and dated girls that wore jeans so tight they had to mist them and lay on bed to pull them up.