20 Cult Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die
16. Society (1989)
Bill is worried that he is "different" to his sister and parents: they mix with other "upper class" people while Bill is more down to earth. Even his girlfriend seems a bit odd. Naturally, all is revealed when Bill returns home to find a party in full swing.
Some films are immediately resonant and manage to be even more so as time goes by and people continue to properly contextualize them. Brian Yuzna’s directorial debut, Society, is one such film. When it was initially released, it was a clear reaction against '80s excess and yuppie culture; however, in the wake of twenty-plus years worth of unrest over wealth inequality and the Occupy movement, it’s tough to hear a film insist that “the rich have always fed on the poor” and not consider it not only eerily prescient but also delightful since it literalizes that insistence in an outrageously bizarre manner.
If you have a strong stomach and can tolerate a film where a group of rich Beverly Hills aristocrats mesh and bind into a pile of wet pulsating flesh (during a vile and repulsive, yet ultimately funny orgy), then give Society a spin. You will not be disappointed.