Society is a 1989 is a body horror film directed by Brain Yuzna. The film stars Billy a teenager in Beverly hills who begins to suspect that his wealthy parents are part of a gruesome cult made up of the social elite. Society is a satire and criticism of the higher class ruling the world and the political top one percent that controls society.
The film begins with protagonist Bill as he walks around his house scared hearing voices. He then talks to his shrink about his lie being a nightmare as he lives in fear of his parents, his sister, and the shrink, he feels there is evil coming to destroy the normality as symbolically shown with the apple Billy bits into contains worms. This showcases of the one percent is shown with Billy being a rich kid in a rich family living in a rich house with a rich family. There is shown to be a stalker hiding his sisters closet as Billy is adrift. Form the rest of his family as they are all together, but he is different, as shown with something moving inside of his sister Jenny her true form. Billy is presented as a stereotypical rich kid he is a jock his girlfriend is a cheerleader, and he is debate for class present he should be on the up on up, however Billy ends up getting controlled by the elites in human form through sexuality with is how elites control people in real life. He is worried about his family, as his shrink ominously says he deserves what will happen to him and that he will make a wonderful contribution to society meaning the elites will use him. he sees his sister washing naked but it’s the wrong way round her true form, as he meets people who are from the upper percent and gets shunned by them as the film criticises the elites ruling the world. His friend then shows him a recording with Jenny being indoctrinated into society like going into an elite club as his friend hides a hearing aid in her earring.
On the tape they hear an orgy linking to the sex party’s the elites go to as the parents find the microphone. Billy ends up giving the rerecording to his therapist without realising his in on it as the elites control all, they make Billy’s life spiral out of control as he tries to confide in his girlfriend about this, but she doesn’t care as the breakup, and she finds a shrunken head in her locker. Billy hears a different tape his psychologist plays him, as his parents made a fake tape and gave it to his phycologist. The films show how the elites control the world as Billy must follow society’s rules as normal people follow the rules and the elites make them. Blanchart ends up dying in a car crash before he can get the tape to Billy with was organised by society the elites and his parents and sister are indifferent to his death as they are just normal people. Bill meets Carissa at the party along with Ted who conforms Blachhart was killed, and his siter engaged in a sexual orgy as Bill leaves with Carissa. They have sex however its revealed that she is part of the mutants with her body on back to front, as he also sees her mum who is like a zombie coffing up hair. This shows the elites to be a different species running the world controlling people though sex, this is further shown as he finds a sex doll and a baby doll with his and Carissa’s names on them. they find out that Blachharts corpse is fake created by the elites. Bill agrees to meet Marvin his rival school president but when he gets there, he discovers his throat has been slit. He hears voices in the background and people running away as its clear someone staged his death. This shows the power of the elites and how they and control and manipulate the lives of common people.
Bill goes to Clarissa’s and tells her he found Martin’s throat slashed and uses her phone to ring the police, however then they get. There they discover the body is gone and replaced with a new car showing how the elites easily cover up their crimes. Bill states to the school that David was killed by the society and Martin was killed by them as well as Martin shows up alive showing how the elites use body doubles to control the world. Milies tells Bill he was the one who put the shrunken head in his locker and the sex doll in his jeep, but he conforms his fiend’s dead body has been taken away highlighting the conspiracy. Bill then arrives home as his family drug him and take him away as his fiend follows in pursuit as the nurse tells him he is dead as he finds his jeep showcasing how the elites manipulate and control everything. Bill ends up sedated hearing the notices of the elites throughout the film showcasing how they control everything which is further shown as when he sees people moving behind the curtain and looks, they are not there. Billy drives back home despite warnings from Milo and Carisa with milo in pursuit. He waits for his parents to arrive home as the lights turn on and Billy is captured by the elites who were all in on it. Billy was never the same race of them they are the elitist class born into society as the ruling elites are a different species controlling the world, and like a lot of real-life elites they engage in sex cult orgies. They bring in Blanchard and engage in a body horror orgy where they absorb him this symbolically shows how the rich suck and absorb the poor showing them as mutants.
This showcases how the rich engage in sex orgies as shown in a body horror way by sucking their essence to death as the people involved are in position of power like judges. As the Jude puts is fist up his arse and out his mouth absorbing him as people tape it. The elites show their mutant forms as the phycologist becomes a mutant with a hand for a head. He finds his mum being a mutant with her head on top and her sisters head on the bottom and his dad being an anus with legs with his face on the back of the anus. He is captured by the elites who engage in a body horror orgy all an absorbing each other showing the secret sex parties of the elite. At the climax of the film Billy makes Ted fight him as the elite’s cheer as he sucks him all is seemingly lost as Billy sticks is hand up his arse and up trough is body and out his mouth and eyes as he pulls him inside out. This showcases the way the elites make the normal people fight in a blood sport however it shows people have the power to defeat the elites. He punches his dad who tries to stop him from leaving as they drive away. They look at the rotten corpse and the judge says to Doctor Cleveland that he may have an opening in Washington next summer. This shows no matter how much damage is done to the elites they will always remain.
Society is a satire and criticism of how the elite’s rule and control society. It shows that no matter what disruption takes place the elites will always control the world.