Tagline – “It’s going to be torture”
“25 words or less” – An awkward fraternity
pledge comes back from the dead to seek revenge against the brothers who were
responsible for his death during a hazing ritual
Full Summary:
It’s another Fall semester at
Rockefeller University in Virginia which means a new pledge class of bright-eyed,
impressionable freshmen being initiated into the popular Zeta Beta Alpha
fraternity. We open during hell week and
the pledges are being forced to drink copious amounts of beer until they puke by
the strict, overbearing pledge master, Chad, and his fellow fraternity
brothers.
Every pledge class has that one
awkward kid that doesn’t quite fit in and is the whipping boy for the
upperclassmen and this year is no different.
That whipping boy this time is Jasper, a skinny, frail, boyish-looking
freshmen who is pledging the fraternity because of his desire to be accepted by
someone, anyone. Jasper’s asked to stay
behind by Chad after the rest of the class has been dismissed following the
drinking competition. That’s when the
fraternity brothers force him to drink his own vomit. This is just one more incidence of hazing in
a semester filled with them.
The pledge class “hell week”
culminates with Zeta’s legendary “Wooly Mammoth” party, named after their
infamous jungle juice, but of course Jasper and his fellow pledge brothers have
to be on duty while the upperclassmen have fun.
Jasper is specifically assigned the most menial tasks like cleaning the
kitchen and mopping up the bathroom and is forced to watch while everyone else
rages around him. There’s a slight
glimmer of hope when he starts chatting up a fellow freshman girl but it’s
quickly dashed when Chad swoops in and steals her away from him.
Later in the night after the party
has died down, several of the fraternity brothers decide to cure their boredom by
hazing the pledges so they gather up the class and bring them to the lake on
campus. There, in the middle of the
night, the brothers led by Chad and Zach, the fraternity president, demand that
the pledges strip down to their underwear and swim to a fountain located in the
middle of the lake. Jasper protests
claiming that he’s not a good swimmer and doesn’t want to do the task.
Instead of compassion, his protests
are met with ridicule as the brothers strip him totally naked, to the laughter of
the gathered crowd, and kick him into the lake.
The pledges - drunk, tired and disoriented - swim to the fountain and
back, as the crowd continues to drink and mock them. However one pledge never makes it back. After a couple brothers jump into the lake to
frantically look for this missing pledge they realize that Jasper has drowned.
The fraternity leadership is faced
with a choice – either report Jasper’s drowning and risk an investigation that
could see the fraternity kicked off of campus and the brothers arrested or they
could bury the body and pretend like nothing happened. After a short debate, the fraternity
president decides to send a few brothers to bury Jasper’s body at a park miles
away from campus.
Fast forward one year later and it’s
another Fall semester at Rockefeller University with another new pledge class
for Zeta Beta Alpha. Jasper, still
officially missing, is just a distant memory, if a memory at all, to most on
campus. While many have forgotten about
Jasper, he is determined not to forget about the fraternity that killed him even
in death as he comes back from beyond the grave to terrorize his former
brothers during hell week.
At first Jasper’s ghost engages in
harmless menacing of the fraternity brothers – staring them down in the library,
chasing them throughout campus – but his actions quickly escalate to more
harmful practices such as throwing knives which barely miss his targets. Things culminate at the “Wooly Mammoth” party
where Jasper thinks of new and inventive ways to torture people as payback to
the fraternity brothers and their girlfriends who ridiculed him throughout his
pledging.
