Trailer For “Goat”

 

With little over two weeks until release, Paramount Pictures has rolled out the decidedly R-rated trailer for Goat, Andrew Neel’s fraternity drama that takes the concept of hazing and dials it up to 11.

Incorporating cruelty, brutality, fraternity and an unhealthy dose of masochism, it is Ben Schnetzer who finds himself at the epicentre of madness as a 19-year-old named Brad, who is still licking his wounds following a brutal assault. Out to overcome the ordeal, Schnetzer’s lead then pledges allegiance to his brother’s fraternity, instigating a host of primitive rituals and widely over-the-top spiels as the two begin the infamous initiation process.

Like Neighbors on steroids, the trailer above is an assault on the senses to say the very least, but above the drinking games and devious pranks, it is the dynamic between Jonas and Schnetzer’s siblings that has us cautiously optimistic for Goat.

It’s all in the name of brotherhood, apparently. Look for Goat to make its bow in select theaters and via VOD services on September 23. James Franco, Gus Halper, Danny Flaherty, Jake Picking, and Virginia Gardner also star.