The Brotherhood (2001)

Touches You

Redundant and unnecessary.

Load of rubbish!!

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Following the minor success of all-girl teen witch flick THE CRAFT, David DeCoteau made his own Z-grade spin on the franchise in THE BROTHEROOD. These are gay-friendly horror flicks in which female cast members barely feature. DeCoteau is too busy shooting his young male models lounging around in their boxer shorts or getting up to some mischievous hijinks as part of a longevity cult. The British title of the film is I'VE BEEN WATCHING YOU and it sounds like something DeCoteau might have said to his male cast members during audition.Needless to say that this is a surprising production in that it manages to be sleazy and tame at the same time. Certainly the constant ogling of the young male bodies is off-putting although vaguely enlightening given the amount of films that chronicle female flesh. Sadly, the homoerotic stuff is the only real content this movie has, as nobody was really interested in telling a proper story.As usual, the acting is horrible from these planks of wood masquerading as breakout stars, and the script is dumb beyond belief. Every dialogue scene rings hollow and there's a general feeling of falsity in the air. Add in an almost entire lack of story and incident and you have a bomb of a film. Incredibly, no less than five sequels followed this mess.

OK, so i was told to watch this movie cause it has lots of hot guys in their underwear. This is a bit misleading. There are a few hot guys...but rarely are they in their underwear. actually, they are only in their underwear in one scene and this hottest of them all (in my opinion) is already dead. Boo boo boo. They is a slight hint at homoeroticism, but they don't follow through. it's better to just rent some gay porn. There is also a very poor story line, which kinda doesn't make sense. i would be able to look past the crappy story line if there were more hot guys in their underwear. Does anyone know if Brotherhood II or II is any better?

I made myself sit through this BS straight-to-video for what reason again? Boy...well, 1st off, I have no problem with the gay communities throughout the world, but god...some other user had it penned correctly as a homoerotic flic disguised as a horror film. I mean, there's nothing very scary about it.THIS MOVIE NEEDS TO BE SPOILED! Therefore, basically GQ models who form a fraternity try to get the new hot stud on campus into there lair of bloodsucking...but they're not vampires. (?) whatever...they are led into the frat parties they hold by some annoying actress (whose disinterest in her role comes through in her delivery) and later reveal that the other brothers are in the fraternity to act as catalysts for the main guy's spirit to live in after his time on earth is through. gaw...This movie gets a 2/10 from me because the later Brotherhood sequels are pure 0/10. Even this one has a better-looking evil lead. That gives it the 2 points...and the original musical score that is reused in the sequels first got played here. Good god, throw it away and damage every copy in your neighborhood video store!

I do like this film. Honestly, I wouldn't watch it otherwise, listening to it on the other hand is a different matter thanks to you shoddy lip synching that went on. It's a traditional good guys versus vampires type flick that I feel hasn't been done justice. Given a decent script, less wooden actors (Barring the guys who play Devon and Chris' roomie) and a slight hint of homosexuality, this film would become a classic instead of a b-movie. This film sits among greats on my shelf, Devon is a great vampire, he is both charismatic and deadly at the same time. The actor brings a great deal of mystery and seductive power to the character. Devon and the Roomie (who's name I can't remember) burn like fire on an otherwise wet film. To be honest I think that it IS a must see, but whether it is a must keep is up to taste.