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The Brotherhood (2000)

   
Produced & Directed by: David DeCoteau

Written by: Barry L. Levy & Matthew Jason Walsh


Starring:

Samuel Page .... Chris Chandler (as Nathan Watkins)
Josh Hammond .... Dan
Bradley Stryker .... Devon Eisley
Elizabeth Bruderman .... Megan
Forrest Cochran .... Barry
Michael Lutz .... Jordan
Donnie Eichar .... Mikhail


Release Date: Direct-to-DVD: 2000
Rating:

 

Late at night, a fraternity student is murdered by a fraternity brotherhood cult led by someone named Devon Eisley (Bradley Stryker). The murder remains an unsolved mystery.
The next day, newcomer named Dan (Josh Hammond) becomes roomies with a teasing jock named Chris Chandler (Samuel Page) who tells Josh what happened the night before as it is told on the news.
They run into trouble with some frat guys and afterwards beautiful girl that Chris is attracted to invites them to a frat party hosted by Devon who wants Chris to join his frat brotherhood.
Somehow, Chris is tricked into joining Devon's fraternity and then drinks each others blood.
Chris is sleeping lots of hours afterwards till dark, has bad attitudes, feels more powerful and realises that he is turning into a vampire.
Because of this, Devon has deadly plans for him since he needs a new body or his brotherhood will die.
It's up to Dan to try and save Chris from Devon and his brotherhood from their evil grasp.

 

This was an interesting film to watch and a neat story. However, it is a bit stale and the ending is a little silly and obvious and the story is geared for young adults who enjoy reading books by R.L. Stine or Christopher Pike.
There is a good message in the flick to people who are outsiders that never been in a cool crowd which explains that you don't need to join an IN group in order to belong.

The acting is no award winning but the cast seems to do not too bad of a job.
Josh Hammond
and Samuel Page seems to do well acting off of one another.
Also the bullying jocks looked believeable.
I also enjoyed Bradley Stryker's role as the head vampire Devon who is good with his manipulation towards Samuel Page's character.

A couple people spit out bits of blood but that's about it.

David DeCoteau's direction is better than his work in films like Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl O Rama but nowhere as good as his work in like Puppet Master 3: Toulon's Revenge.
I enjoyed his direction with the bullies challenging
Samuel Page's chracter as well as the make out scene between Page, a beautiful women at a frat party and Bradley Stryker as the head vampire Devon as it is extremely effective and well done.

Jeffrey Walton does a fine job in the film as the composer.
He composed terrifically during the make out scene as well as in the closing credits.
He also composed music for the first sequel of this film as well as many other direct-to-video and DVD horror films.