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Shortly after, Paramount Home Video and acquired worldwide distribution rights to the film, with Paramount partnering with a third-party in the U.S for a theatrical release with Paramount handling same-day VOD with its sister network MTV having the first TV window. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2016. Filming įilming began on May 4, 2015, in Finneytown, Ohio, a small suburb outside Cincinnati, Ohio. In May 2015, Virginia Gardner joined the cast of the film. In January 2015, Nick Jonas and Ben Schnetzer joined the cast of the film. Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa will produce under their Killer Films banner while John Wells will serve as an executive producer. In October 2014, it was announced that James Franco would produce the film under his Rabbit Bandini Productions banner, while Andrew Neel will direct from a screenplay written by David Gordon Green, with revisions by Neel and Mike Roberts. The film ends with Mark Mullens throwing a bone to the Goat along with Brad. The final scene is of Brad and Brett visiting the field where Brad was beaten. Brad lies and says none of the men are the one who assaulted him. One of them is revealed to have been shot in a gas station robbery, while the other has yet to be identified in a line up. Brad comes back to his dorm after class to find his goat defecating on the carpet with "Rat Fuck" shaved into its coat.Īfter confronting the brothers at the house, Brad gets accused of speaking to the authorities but Brett steps in and reveals himself as the source of the leaks.īrett and Brad both go to the police station to identify Brad's attackers from 6 months ago. The pledge master suspects Brad for leaking information to the university. The university launches an investigation into Phi Sigma Mu and the fraternity is suspended from campus after someone had told the investigators all about the hazing process.
The pledges, particularly Brad, are warned not to reveal anything to the authorities. Brett says Brad does not belong in the fraternity after seeing how bad the hazing process was.Įvents culminate when Will, Brad's pledge brother, dies of a heart attack while exercising on the track field and his body was shown to be covered in bruises from hazing. Their argument becomes heated and they almost fight each other. During the crossing ceremony, Brad becomes upset that his brother did not attend and confronts him. They pass the test, and are told the hazing is over. The pledges are taken to an off-campus site in the woods, where they are told they either need to drink large quantities of beer, or if they fail they need to sodomize and then kill a goat.
As the pledging ritual moves into hell week, a rite that promises to usher these unproven boys into manhood, the stakes violently increase with a series of torturous and humiliating events. Brad is desperate to belong but as he sets out to join the fraternity his brother exhibits reservations, a sentiment that threatens to divide them. His brother, Brett (Nick Jonas), is already established on campus and with a fraternity that lures Brad in with its promise of protection, popularity, and life-long friendships. Reeling from a terrifying assault over the summer, 19-year-old Brad Land (Ben Schnetzer) starts college determined to get his life back to normal.