Society (1989 film)
Society (1989 film), AKA The Shunting and Dark Society
Summary
"Society: it is a matter of good breeding, really." An ordinary teenage boy discovers his family is part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.
Details
- Release Date: 1989
- Country/Language: USA, English
- Genres/Technical: Horror (Body Horror), Comedy (black comedy), Thriller
- Setting: Modern
- Runtime: 1 hr 39 min
- Starring: Billy Warlock, Devin DeVasquez, Evan Richards
- Director: Brian Yuzna
- Writer: Rick Fry, Woody Keith
- Producer/Production Co: Society Productions Inc., Wild Street Pictures
- View Trailer: (link)
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- IMDB Page: (link)
Ratings
MPAA Ratings
- Rated: R (Violence, Profanity, Adult Content, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
The film, its plot, and special effects run on bizarre violence, bizarre sex, and especially bizarre violent sex, and probably would not suitable for children even with heavy editing.
Tentacle Ratings
A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
- SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; vaguely similar in tone, could be a very loose adaptation)
Basically explores all of the same ground as such Lovecraft miscegenation-horror standards as "The Rats in the Walls (fiction)", "Shadow Over Innsmouth (fiction)", "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (fiction)", "The Outsider (fiction)", "Pickman's Model (fiction)", etc., without actually being based on any particular Lovecraft story or creation.
Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.
Reviews
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Synopsis (SPOILERS)
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Comments, Trivia, Dedication
Associated Mythos Elements
- fiction: compare to "The Rats in the Walls (fiction)", "Shadow Over Innsmouth (fiction)", and "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (fiction)", and to a lesser extent "The Outsider (fiction)" and "Pickman's Model (fiction)"
- race: slug/worm monsters; compare to Deep Ones or Ghouls
Keeper Notes
- A young socialite enlists the investigators' help when he discovers that he is the heir to the sinister secret of his family's wealth, power, and influence: his parents are part of an ancient secret society of hideous slug-like alien parasites that feed on the poor!
