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Frat House is a documentary film exploring the darker side of fraternity life, largely filmed at Allentown, Pennsylvania's Muhlenberg College; the majority of the film was shot in the house of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.
Frat House
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28 Jan 1998
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The lengths they go to are almost masturbatory, flexing how hardcore/dedicated filmmakers they are, but the footage they got because of it makes up for it.
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Watching this, Joker makes more sense. Not because it's bad but because white male fraternalism has been a lifelong obsession of Phillips. There is no better documentary that perfectly exemplifies toxic masculinity than Frat House, a brash and sloppy inside look at some College Fraternities in the United States, scored to The Cranberries and Pink Floyd.
This is actually a really interesting anthropological study of what makes young stupid men tick. Full of homophobia, female objectification and male exceptionalism, it at first seems like an interesting study in male hubris. But by the third act and its MTV style edited montages, it borders on entertainment for entertainment's sake. Phillips seems to be less interested in understanding why males seek this…
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"As the brothers covered me in beer, ashes, and tobacco spit, I couldn't help but feel that some of them were enjoying it a little too much."
Perhaps director Todd Phillips was too. He went on to direct Old School.
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Holy shit. This movie. I know some of it was supposedly staged or whatever, but this is the biggest, hardest, most intense dude-bro jabroni how-to guide on the face of the earth. It's at turns silly and hilarious, but it's frightening, too. Especially frightening. These are real people here. These people really exist.
The documentary defines the backward hat wearing, left ear earring sporting, Newport cigarette smoking, LA Looks hair gelling, beer burping, hard-on stroking, pussy grubbing, jerk-off lotion smelling, away from home for the first time 18-year old future alcoholic dude-bro of late 90s/early 00s American culture. And for that, it's a work of art. Watched via YouTube streaming.
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nothing hugely insightful here; rather, some of this is almost comical in the way the filmmakers posit the film as some kind of declassified + potentially scandalous shock-doc (e.g. the true crime-esque editing and ridiculously self-serious voiceover) when it really only exists as absolute spectacle, especially for anyone who’s ever spent more than three days on a college campus. still, it works remarkably well on the latter level, complete with some of the most disgustingly hateful and conceited individuals I’ve ever seen on camera, so mission accomplished, I guess. in all honesty, I would lying if I said I didn’t get a kick out of how animalistic and depressingly desperate some of these guys are in their pursuit of manhood…
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One of the most lurid, disgusting, hilarious and revealing docs I've seen. Fake or not, there's something wrong "here" and glad Todd & Andrew did it. Big fan of HATED and was waiting a long time to see it. Thanks Internets!
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Massive MTV rip, didn’t think I would like but I gotta say Todd Philips was so committed. Don’t have an ounce of respect for any of my friends who joined fraternities