Sat, Aug 20 / 7pm
Dir. Brian Yuzna
1989, USA, 99 min
After producing Re-Animator, Brian Yuzna turned his hand to directing with Society, and gave birth to one of the ickiest, most original body horror shockers of all time. Teenager Bill Whitney has always felt like the odd one out in his wealthy, upper-class Beverly Hills family. But his sense of alienation takes a sinister turn when he hears an audio recording of his sister’s coming-out party, which seems to implicate his family and others in a bizarre, ritualistic orgy. Packing stomach-churning gore courtesy of Screaming Mad George (A Nightmare on Elm Street 4) and thought-provoking social commentary in equal measure, Society is a biting satire that culminates in the most gag-inducing “climax” in all of horror history.
Join us for a post-screening discussion with Olivia Norquay and Jill Groening of Bikini Drive-in, a semi-monthly podcast discussing horror films through an intersectional feminist lens.
