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In the early Aughts, two filmmakers from the South made the groundbreaking, campy queer films, FRATERNITY MASSACRE AT HELL ISLAND and HELLBENT. These films subverted how gay men and their relationships were portrayed at the time, exploring their identities, friendships, coming out and finding love. From a pledge night event on a cursed island in Memphis to a wild Halloween night out in West Hollywood, these friends and lovers fight to survive until morning as they battle homophobia and crazed, masked murderers.
Fraternity Massacre was filmed 20 years ago by Memphis-based filmmaker Mark Jones. He previously wrote the screwball comedy ELI PARKER IS GETTING MARRIED? (2000) and later directed TENNESSEE QUEER (2014), plus a series of short films from 2016-2025. Two of the shorts will screen before the main attraction which hasn’t been screened in New York since 2007.
HELLBENT celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. Originally from Fort Worth, Paul Etheredge filmed this over a two-year period in West Hollywood and marked his directorial debut. It was one of the first queer slasher films, and influenced a wave of stylistic, queer horror films in the 2000s. Etheredge went on to release THE OTHER in 2025.