Watch Nick Jonas Play Raging Frat Boy in Goat Trailer

In the intense and brooding dramaGoat, set for release on September 23rd, Nick Jonas surprisingly wowed audiences at this years Sundance Film Festival with his conflicted portrayal of Brett, a young frat pledges defensive older brother.

But hes helpless to save his siblingBrad (Ben Schnetzer) when the merciless hazing from the elders of Phi Sig takes a series of increasingly dark turns. In the films newly released trailer, the mistreatment escalates from a little over the line to technically a war crime in short order.

The trailer highlights Goatproducer James Francos brief appearance on the other side of the camera as a long-since-graduated Phi Sig member who likes to visithis old stomping grounds and relive the glory days.

Though the music selection almost makes this slow-burning, carefully measured psychodrama look like aSpring Breakerssequel hulked out on testosterone, the trailer captures the frightening toxic masculinity that invigorates the movie. As a new round of freshmen start at colleges around America, the nightmare underbelly of higher educations most time-honored institution will be put on full display.