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You ever feel like maybe you just didn’t belong? Like maybe you were adopted, and that your family was actually incestuous, semi-lovecraftian, goop monsters who secretly run the world when they’re not fusing their bodies together in a gelatinous goop orgry? Well then do we have the movie for you: this week’s Rotten Horror Picture Show subject, 1989’s Society!.
In Society, A Beverly Hills teen (Billy Warlock) discovers his parents are part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite. Don’t let that fairly bland summary fool you though, Society is a gem of the last days of 80’s horror that breaks up the “80’s high school” formula with a level of strangeness that will keep you squirming in your seat all the way up to The Grand Shunting – a final sequence that I guarantee is unlike anything you’ve seen before!
Join Clay and Amanda as get pliable with literal buttheads, inappropriate boob placement, the Rotten Horror Picture Show mother of the year, literal family bonding, BLANCHARD, implied incest, explicit incest, extreme fisting, dangling plot threads, middleaged-writer understandings of what teenagers like to do for fun, tea with some pee, and parenting so questionable it’s straight up BAD.
The directorial debut of Brian Yuzna, producer of Stuart Gordon’s ReAnimator, Society is a film that’s half cliche, half completely original, and a whole lot weird. Riding on the back of the unbelievable special make up effects of Screaming Mad George, Society is a film so unique, you’ll need to have your friends watch it just so you have someone to talk to about it who knows what a Grand Shunting is. So twist your boobs on backwards, gaslight your closest friend, cough up a big ball of hair, and grease yourself up for a hell of a shunt…if you DARE!