Review of Society (1989) by Jason J — 04 Jun 2011
Society is a great movie about paranoia and those paranoias coming true. It works well as a satire on the Beverly Hills rich too. Essentially a different refreshing horror film.
The first half of the movie is a brillant parody of a Beverly Hills 90210 world, with a menacing current underneath. Later on the movie gets stranger and more surreal with a wicked vein of black humour running through it. The 20-minute climax, in which our disbelieving hero is presented to the rich folks as the latest addition to their flesh fondue (the 'Shunting'), remains one of the most startling, shocking, and frankly exhilarating endings in the genre, let alone one of the kinkiest uses of latex in any medium - an excellent example of the rich "sucking" the poor dry!!
The cast is spot on in their performances, the best being young star Billy Warlock as our perplexed and horrified hero. Society is one of those unique genre oddities that must be seen to be fully realized. It's one very wild trip that's well deserving of a cult status.
This review of Society (1989) was written by Jason J on 04 Jun 2011.
Society has generally received positive reviews.
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