Cooper), thriller ( Beastly Boyz), comedy ( My Stepbrother Is a Vampire!?!), fantasy ( Hansel & Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft), Western ( Doc Holliday’s Revenge), and family ( A Talking Cat!?!, which Nathan Rabin described in the A.V. As the founder and chief creative force behind Rapid Heart Pictures, he has pumped out a daunting catalogue of low-budget movies in any and every genre: historical drama ( Bonnie & Clyde: Justified), action ( Badass Showdown), horror ( Bigfoot vs.
#1313 HAUNTED FRAT SERIES#
The series has only a few linking threads: a cast of young, chiseled studs, often dressed only in briefs long scenes of the men showering, swimming, and lifting weights a token female character, often played by an aging glamor queen a mansion setting and titles that guarantee a spot at the top of a Netflix menu.Įven if the 1313 series isn’t to your taste, if you’ve spent any time on a streaming service in the last few years, you’ve probably encountered the work of David DeCoteau. Thus, the 1313 series was born – 1313: Cougar Cult, 1313: Haunted Frat, 1313: Actor Slash Model, 1313: Cougar Cult, and many more. With 1313: Nightmare Mansion, you kinda know what you’re getting.” You want to be early in the directory, but you also want it to be a simple, high-concept title. “The ‘1313’ branding put me in a very, very enviable spot on all the On Demand menus on all the cable services,” says DeCoteau.
#1313 HAUNTED FRAT MOVIE#
When DeCoteau changed the title of his 2011 movie A Dream Within a Dream to 1313: Nightmare Mansion, the veteran exploitation filmmaker found a surefire way to boost his audience. The 1313 series is almost like a found object d’art.A lot has changed since David DeCoteau began making films, but one thing the producer/director has never lost sight of is the bottom line. The camera and underwear change the way they walk and shower and writhe around in bed. 1313: Haunted Frat is almost like a modern Edward Muybridge study in motion. The lack of dialogue is almost refreshing compared to the modern indie movies that rely on wall to wall dialogue. I’m sure the near naked men helped, but I am genuinely intrigued by these movies. They’re not sexually arousing. Spoilers and all.ĭespite a thin plot and terrible dialogue, I still managed to finish this movie (unlike last night’s attempt to watch Wonder Wheel). The intelligent one of the bunch has to write a paper about the history of the fraternity and discovers that the house is built on the grounds of an insane asylum that burned down like 25 years ago (possibly with some patients inside it). The only reason these walking statues are still at the house is because some game got moved? Who knows. You see, all these cliched examples of “hetero” masculinity belong to a fraternity that has mostly left the house to party down for Spring Break (forever).
#1313 HAUNTED FRAT SKIN#
The plot slowly comes into focus when more buff young men eventually show up to swim, tan, play shirtless football, workout without a shirt, rub themselves in bed, and hose themselves down while a strange woman in a black nightie lightly runs the tips of her fingers over their skin and shorts while tense music plays. Just some vaguely ominous music that accompanies neither scares nor events. In this case, the first 15+ minutes are literally the same twunk walking around in underwear or writhing in a bed, and that’s before he wakes up to do a shower scene.
The 1313 movies are exercises in near-naked barely-homoerotic barely-horror genre filmmaking existing purely as a lie or a casting call. In the past, I’ve compared these movies to Andy Warhol’s avant garde art films and Jean Luc Godard’s deconstructionist cinema. As we well know by now, the 1313 series is usually less about story development than about guys walking around in various states of clothing before intermittent attacks of plot descend on the unwilling participants. Why is this happening? What is going on? If you really want these answers, you’ll have to wait for the whole 75 minutes. What is he dreaming about? He seems to be dreaming of himself walking around the 1313 house very very slowly wearing nothing but a pair of tighty whities. Immediately after the very brief title sequence, a kind of hunky pouty young white twunk is having a horrible nightmare while shirtlessly writhing in his sheets. Luckily, 1313: Haunted Frat jumps right into the 1313 routine without giving us a moment to ponder the consequences of starting another one of these blasted projects. Why am I here again? Why am I watching another 1313 movie? What is this movie even about? I was not five minutes into this movie when I wondered about my life choices.
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