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- 1992
- R
- Zecca Films
- 1 h 39 m
- 1992
- R
- Zecca Films
- 1 h 39 m
Summary An ordinary teenage boy discovers his family is part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.
Directed By: Brian Yuzna
Written By: Zeph E. Daniel, Rick Fry
- 1992
- R
- Zecca Films
- 1 h 39 m
- 1992
- R
- Zecca Films
- 1 h 39 m
Society
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Summary An ordinary teenage boy discovers his family is part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.
Directed By: Brian Yuzna
Written By: Zeph E. Daniel, Rick Fry
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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30% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
50% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
20% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
50
30% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
50% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
20% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Way ahead of its time, this is a balls-out satire on the disgraceful layers that can lurk just beneath the Avon surface. This is anti-Ferris Bueller and fiendishly funny.
The first two-thirds of Brian Yuzna's Society are admittedly lackluster. Starring Billy Warlock as Bill Whitney, the Beverly Hills-set tale of a rich kid beginning to distrust the world he grew up in takes more than an hour to figure out its footing. But once that happens, Society assumes an unshakable vise-grip that's nearly impossible to look away from.
More ambitious than the usual low-budget horror item, SOCIETY doesn't develop its provocative idea--when the rich feed off the lower classes, they do so literally--to the fullest, but has its share of intriguing and chilly moments along the way.
No one who sees the last half-hour of this movie will ever forget it--though quite a few may want to.
Society never entirely decides whether it’s a plot-centric horror-mystery or an imagistic fantasy; the film’s self-conscious emptiness drains the incestuous conceit of its shock value, defanging a nervy gross-out.
Society is an extremely pretentious, obnoxious horror film that unsuccessfully attempts to introduce kinky sexual elements into extravagant makeup effects.
It comes across as yet another in a long line of poorly produced horror/paranoia bloodbaths, short on everything except cheesy effects.
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Awards
Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film (BIFFF)
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 1 Nomination
