10 Sci-Fi Horror Movies That Broke All The Rules
7. Society
Released to little acclaim in 1990 but revisited as a cult classic ever since, Society was Re-Animator director Brian Yuzna’s seminal sci fi horror story of a young man who discovers the horrific truth behind his upper crust adopted family's lifestyle in gruesome fashion.
The film's central mystery is a slice of fun and impressively uncompromising class based satire, but that had been established in the sci fi horror genre ever since Aliens mocked arm manufacturers and Robocop took aim at the militarisation of the US police.
What Society did to change up the sub genre was stretching the limitations of what practical effects work could achieve into daring, terrifying new places.
Pushing past even the earlier innovations of The Thing mastermind Rob Bottin, Screaming Mad George's incredible prosthetic effects work reimagined the scope of special effects shortly before CGI would come to replace many of his innovations via paltry, depthless imitations.