Boston Beatdown
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Boston Beatdown is a documentary movie series on the violence in the Boston hardcore culture.
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[edit] The Subjects
The Boston hardcore scene was at one point overrun by neo-Nazis, so a group of Boston hardcore fans created a group called Friends Stand United (FSU) who were credited for getting rid of them. Their methods were aggressive, and they would sometimes attack Nazi-Skinheads at concerts.
FSU members also went after the drunken jocks who would pour into the bars and clubs on Lansdowne Street just opposite of Fenway Park. FSU memebers have also been know to fight people that attend the shows drunk
[edit] The Documentary
This movie is based on some of the ideas and actions of FSU, as described in this article. The violent acts depicted in the film are recorded by members of that Boston hardcore crew. Their website claims that Boston beatdown is an independent film company – and only an independent film company. Boston Beatdown is not FSU and FSU is not Boston Beatdown.[1].
The film company claims that this is documentation of the FSU, and that the persons in the film were not acting or effected by the filming. [2]. As result of the violence depicted in the film, FSU T-shirts were banned from many venues in the Northeastern United States.
