10 Best Self Aware Horror Movies

With a title like ‘I Blame Society’ you know that the movie is gonna have something to say about the world it exists in and the environment it grew from. This film manages to give us this commentary without the clumsy heavy-handedness we sometimes expect from ‘society-critiquing cinema’.

Following an aspiring filmmaker, Gillian (Gillian Wallace Horvat), who - to put it bluntly - just isn’t very good, I Blame Society sees her descent into apathy and delusion as she escalates her criminal status in the name of movie-making. In a world where Hollywood is more interested in buzzwords than the meaning behind them, Gillian wants her snuff-film to show complete authenticity and is willing to go to any length to achieve that.

Wallace Horvat is convincing and even a little bit endearing as the awkward, unhinged main girl, and the self-filmed style lends the film a feeling of reality and even intimacy in certain contexts. It’s a film that knows that the main character and her arc are ridiculous, but instead of half-heartedly hinting at lunacy it leans into it, and the result is definitely unique and interesting.

Slow-burning at points, the film is definitely worth seeing through to the end and its very fitting finale.