i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

I don't remember much about society, but I do remember some strange and bizarre scenes including an absolutely surreal ending in which an entire bunch of 50 odd people indulge in a cannibalistic orgy! If it sounds strange watching it was even more so. The director and lead actors are all but forgotten today but this film stands the test of time- although not many people know about it. I suggest you give this one a change and see if you can like it.

I missed 'Society' when it was released in the eighties. Apparently, it's quite a cult classic (which is strange as I'm well up on my cult horror classics!) and, from watching it now, I can see why. However, I'm guessing I'll never fully appreciate it due to the fact that I'm watching it in 2017 through adult eyes who's become a bit jaded and cynical towards cinema in general. I can imagine it caused quite a stir on its release due to its weird subject matter and cliché-breaking narrative.We meet our hero Billy who's a young up and coming high school student. He's certainly not a nerd, as he's played by future 'Baywatch' star Billy Warlock and is well-liked, plays college football and has a popular and attractive girlfriend. However, despite seeming to have everything going for him, he starts to feel that the world is a slightly more scary place than he imagined when weird things start to happen. And, when I say 'weird' I kind of mean bizarre happenings concerning those closest to him. They start behaving oddly, sometimes violently and even appear to him in different forms. However, naturally, whenever he tries to prove any of this to anyone – seemingly – neutral, there's no proof to offer.In my opinion, the film has one major plus side and one major downside. I'll start with the negative and that's that the film is a little 'uneven.' Sometimes it seems to labour plot points that we actually 'get' quite quickly and it seems to repeat them over and over again to the point that we're really kind of bored and waiting for the story to progress. There's clearly something dark and intriguing happening and there's enough story here to make us want to know more. It just drags it out too much and we start to just want to fast forward to something new and more pertinent to the plot.But, on to the good… I've already mentioned that the film is interesting and you probably will want to know what's really going on. And, I have to say that the 'pay-off' is well worth the wait. Or rather it is if you have a strong stomach. The last act is certainly memorable and will stay with you for a long time to come. It's pretty intense and – hopefully this isn't a spoiler – the special effects really are special and it's great to see 'practical' effects being equally good as today's computer generated effects. Unfortunately though, the film's cursed uneven-pacing shows up again and even slows down what its arguably the best part of the film. Another plus point is that it really does subvert a few traditional traits of the genre. I won't go into which as a few things that happened really did surprise me when it came to characters and their overall role in the film.So, having finally watched this film, overall I'm glad I did. Yes, I'd probably enjoy it a little more if I'd already seen it back in the eighties and it ticked that nostalgia box with me, but I think the final act really does justify a watch for all horror fans. It has all the element of a 'Naked Lunch-style' David Cronenberg film that us cult-horror fans can't seem to get enough of. Just don't eat anything before you get to the last twenty minutes. Seriously, it's pretty intense!

I'm probably one of the few fans of this movie that enjoys the whole buildup to the infamous ending more than the ending itself, although you really can't deny that it's absolutely due to that insane climactic sequence why this movie is even remembered and loved today, and it really ultimately makes it a worthwhile viewing experience, I just enjoy all of the movie though and not just the end of it. I love all the deliciously offbeat tense atmosphere as young Bill grows fearful of his own cold condescending family as he grows increasingly suspicious that something rotten lies at the heart of his affluent Beverly Hills lifestyle. I thought Billy Warlock was very good and charming, I can see why he got the part, it's like he's the only truly normal person out of most everyone that he encounters and you see the far out events from his outsider perspective. I like all of the strange edgy stuff with his family and acquaintances playing around with him and clearly lying right to his face and hiding something. The exaggerated bad apple at the prologue scene seems to suggest that Billy is already starting to lose it before he even starts seeing things, and they could've easily played the angle that you're not really sure if it's all in his head or not. I like the sitcom-esc schlocky veneer and all the weird little moments like the snails and the backwards shower that are really just icing on the cake, although I hate everything with his annoying vapid girlfriend, his totally pointless friend Milo, and the beastly walking tank of a woman who just grunts and has a fetish for hair! Don't know what they were thinking there, she was like a cartoon, way too goofy for me.. She was the Society member the others don't talk about.. To my way of thinking it's a horror film with depth to it. Rather than all the black comedy which is a lot of fun too, I like it best for its deeper more unsettling themes like the fear and paranoia that those around us who we trust may have dark ulterior motives towards us, what horrors await when the secretive polite masks come off, and the frightening notion of the wicked and deranged aristocracy living in decadent impunity and eating the helpless poor... It's creepy! As the plot progresses you can feel everything building up to the ghastly truth, that the elite of his world including who he always thought were his family are actually degenerate twisted life forms who may be less or more than human, who are able to morph and meld their bodies together as they leach off and consume alive very unfortunate chosen victims of what they consider the lesser/lower species of mankind in horrendous ritualistic orgies of gooey shapeless piles of intertwined devolved inhumanity that engage in hellish displays of vile hedonistic nightmare flesh that's ecstasy for them, but torture for the poor sap that's getting shunted! They're basically The Thing, if it had a kinky side and a whimsical sense of humour! At the end it really goes full-on loony toons, some of those gags like the giddy psychiatrist turning is head into a giant grinning hand, the hysterical legendary dad having his face where his asshole should be, and the truly frightening upside-down and back-to-front mom thing that has no arms, is walking on the dad's arms, and has the daughter's head pop out of her lower half are just insane, it really feels like anything goes! The judge has gotta be the scariest one for me though. Just the image of his sweaty fat old man face with the cigar in his mouth and when he sucks out the guy's beauty mark and shows it off like a prize - ugh, so revoltingly disturbing! The off-key music of the awesome sequence gives it a grand twisted circus-like feel that just made all that human amalgamated stew move so wonderfully... After all that insanity the movie ends on a most abrupt and weak note. Billy doesn't resolve anything, he just manages to kill the resident arrogant champ dick of Society and everybody is so stunned that he's able to drive away with his lame friend and new sexy mutant girlfriend! It's awfully open-ended. I love the big ending sequence though, it's completely disgusting, ridiculous and over the top, and it cemented this flick in my head forever. The first time I saw this as a kid alone late one night that part left me mesmerised and stunned, I'd never seen anything remotely like that sh*t before. You see the age of those special makeup effects now but they're still excellent, there's a real kind of artistic flair of perverse sexuality about it all, it's repulsive, yet weirdly appealing at the same time, it's beautifully grotesque. This was one hell of a film for Brian Yuzna to make his directorial debut with and he and Screaming Mad George really made some sick silly crazy horror magic together. I love horror movies like this that are proud to stand out as oddities, and I'm glad this has found new life and a place over the years as a quirky surrealistic body horror classic in its own right. To Society!

Parts Blue Velvet and Videodrome, parts Repo Man and Braindead, this thing rocks and is surely one of the cult classics from the decade that you just have to see (forget The Warriors).The 80's had a strange resonance. It seemed as though nothing was happening, nothing beyond spending and watching TV. It was morning again in America, but a kind of peculiarly false morning as though someone had reached out with a brush and painted false skies. You couldn't even trust it was day, much less anything else. So, something had to be happening that wasn't so clear at first sight, had to. It had to be ugly, since everything looked idyllic. It couldn't be that Watergate had been exposed and that was that.But it couldn't be a political cinema anymore either, not in a convincing manner, since the people seemed satisfied. So Taxi Driver transformed into Videodrome. Both films are about a helpless observer of a life awash with foulness, but in the second case, he's a corporate type, and he's watching a TV broadcast, a TV broadcast that reveals something malicious in the airwaves that transmit reality that is just gnarly and insane beyond belief. Both films perceptively suggest the damage is in the retina of the mind's eye, and that damage is not a simple madness: the images madden.This is much less strategic, of course. It was made near the end of the decade, so with enough hindsight to pass around buckets of paranoid blame. The satire is screamingly obvious, because who'd believe something so simple anyway, a conspiracy so pervasive, so blatantly evil, which is the clever little device used here: the film delivers subversive blows in the same channel as the people consumed reality on TV, the channel that played soap opera and assured life was something like it. Watching the rich and privileged for weeks on end engage with utmost seriousness in lachrimose trifles about sex and power, is rendered here as a kind of goofy, since it was a TV lifestyle, malevolent conspiracy for sex and power over the viewer. This alone would make the film required 80's viewing. It's a lot of fun, sunny, increasingly unhinged. It's strongly anchored on this end by having a famous TV star of the time in the role of the (paranoid) observer.The icing on the cake is the unforgettable finale that parodies its own soap-operatic parody: the sexual games mockingly turn into an actual orgy for power. You get to see an actual 'butthead', among other slimy things.