Nick Jonas is making a splash by playing a fraternity brother in indie drama Goat, which had its debut at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and now comes out in wide release this week. Even though Jonas portrayed a frat boy in a very different project last year (Ryan Murphy's Scream Queens), Goat shows a more realistic side of fraternity life — and a more brutal one. Jonas's onscreen brother Brad (Ben Schnetzer) and his pledge class of a handful of other young men are forced to undergo various kinds of hazing, which is sadly common on college campuses to this day.
If your brain goes to, "What kind of hazing, though?" or makes even worse associations because of the film's title, then I can tell you exactly what goes on in the film's hazing scenes. Here are the various types of physical and psychological torture the movie's characters endure (spoilers ahead, obviously). Oh, and even more terrifying? This is based on true events.
*This, mercifully, is an empty threat.