Coming from a Fraternity myself, I still find this crazy interesting. It shows the more extreme side of Fraternities. Also shows the Fraternity of die aspect of the brothers. Check out the description below.
In the late Nineties, following his first documentary Hated, Todd Phillips and fellow director Andrew Gurland filmed an HBO America Undercover episode called Frat House. The aim was to uncover the truth behind rumored atrocities pledges had to endure for initiation into college fraternities. At one point, Phillips himself pledged the frat to gain access. The results were so out there the filmmakers were accused of staging the events portrayed in the film, and the final version never aired on HBO.
Frat House first premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary. That was before the allegations surfaced, though, and even with Phillips and Gurland standing by the fact that the events portrayed are real, the controversy was enough for HBO to blackball the film.
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