10 Films That Stick It To The Man
6. Society
“The rich have always fed off the poor,” explains the poster for Brian Yuzna’s satire. You don’t know the half of it.
Not only are the rich different from the rest of us, they’re descended from an alternate species that survives by sucking the nutrients from the bodies of the less fortunate, and once you’ve uncovered their secret you’re next on the menu. The secret to fitting in lies in remaining on the sidelines and allowing the rich to have their way.
Such a story could only be set in Beverly Hills, where nobody’s too weird or too rich and every perversion is justified. Anything goes in a restricted neighbourhood, and anyone who disagrees clearly isn’t “one of us.”
The theme of fitting in runs throughout the film but when hero Bill Whitney (Billy Warlock) discovers the reason he’s always felt like an outsider, he has no problem beating a hasty retreat....but first he stops to pull a creature’s head out of its own ass. Every movie should have a scene like that.