Like millions of others, you could very well head to the theater this weeked and pay around (and likely more than) a dozen singles to see the desperate cashgrab that is The Hangover Part III — but if you’ve read our review, then you’re already running far away. As an alternative, we’ve dug up one of Todd Phillips‘ early works that is well worth a look.
Timely surfacing last year around the release of his producing effort Project X, Frat House is one of Phillips’ first films, a documentary chronicling the fraterny life at Alpha Tau Omega in Allentown, Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College. Co-directed by Andrew Gurland, the film showed at Sundance in 1998 (two years before Phillips’ debut theatrical feature Road Trip), but was quickly banned by HBO after it was originally intended to air, due to allegations of inaccuracy. Unsettling and intimate, watch the one-hour documentary below in full.
What do you think of Phillips’ early film?