Frat House

Frat House is a documentary film exploring the darker side of fraternity life. The film was directed by Todd Phillips and Andrew Gurland, and largely filmed at Allentown, Pennsylvania's Muhlenberg College; the majority of the film was shot in the house of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, whose charter was revoked in 2000, though it has since been rechartered.[1]

Frat House
Title card
Directed byTodd Phillips
Andrew Gurland
Music byJ.F. Coleman
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducersTodd Phillips
Andrew Gurland
EditorSalamo Levin
Running time60 mins
DistributorHBO
Release
Original releaseJanuary 21, 1998 (Sundance)

The opening fraternity, that drove the filmmakers out of the college and the town, is the Beta Chi fraternity on the State University of New York College at Oneonta campus in Oneonta New York. Beta Chi is an unrecognized fraternity in Oneonta, and was kicked off the Oneonta campus after reports of severe hazing. Beta Chi is currently a recognized fraternity at SUNY Oneonta as of January 22, 2018. Other unrecognized fraternities from SUNY Oneonta shown in the film include Sigma Alpha Mu, also known as "Sammy", and Tau Kappa Epsilon, which was recognized in the spring of 2007 but shortly thereafter lost their recognition from the campus. Frat House won two Sundance Film Festival awards in 1998.

When the feature was attacked for containing sequences that were staged for the cameras it was permanently shelved by its distributor HBO and was never aired officially. [2][3]

See also

References
  1. Yang, Eleanor (June 24, 2000). "HEC News: Alpha Tau Omega Members Linked to Fights, Hazing, and More". Higher Education Center, US Department of Education. Archived from the original on February 13, 2009.
  2. https://www.indiewire.com/2012/03/like-project-x-watch-todd-phillips-unaired-nsfw-hbo-documentary-frat-house-253507/
  3. https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/wdpee5/todd-phillips-frat-house
Preceded by
Girls Like Us		 Sundance Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
1998
(tied with The Farm)		 Succeeded by
American Movie
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