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.
Direction
Phillips embeds so deep subjects forget they're being filmed.
Editing
Ruthless cuts that let horror speak for itself.
Director
Todd Phillips
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film essentially disappeared for two decades; fraternities threatened lawsuits and HBO quietly let it vanish, making it one of documentary cinema's most notorious 'lost' films until recent bootleg circulation.
Todd Phillips would later direct The Hangover and Joker—Frat House reveals his entire career fascination with masculine dysfunction and ritualized cruelty was there from frame one.
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