10 Horror Movies That Purposefully Mess With Your Head

Re-Animator director Brian Yuzna’s iconic 1990 horror Society seems indecipherably shocking the first time the viewer witnesses its ending, where the otherwise relatively conventional teen horror takes a turn for the surreal.

The film's slow-burn start sees an adopted Beverly Hills teen have trouble fitting in amongst his uncomfortably close family and being plagued by creepy hallucinations, auditory and visual, of all sorts of eerie weirdness.

Is he paranoid? Or imagining all of this?

There's a pair of questions which are rendered irrelevant the second that the hero, and so the audience, walks in on the rich and powerful local elites “shunting”, a process which sees them melt into an incestuous flesh blob and shred their working class captives for fun and sustenance.

It's a gonzo sequence guaranteed to result in dropped jaws in the cinema aisles, but what does it all mean?

Well, a passing familiarity with leftist thought informs the viewer that the film is literalizing its depiction of the uber-wealthy overpowered one percent as a parasitic upper class feeding off the underpaid work of the poor, the working class, and the vanishingly small middle class.