This film screens in the Cult strand at BFI Southbank and can also be seen on 19th July. You can find all the details here.
Time Out review of Society:
'A
bizarre fable that starts like a TV soap but soon darkens into a
disturbing thriller about an idyllic Beverly Hills community where
something is subtly skewed. Handsome teenager Bill (Billy Warlock) feels
uncomfortable with his affluent peers. But the usual teen insecurities
take on a more sinister aspect when his sister's ex-boyfriend Blanchard
plays him a clandestine recording of her 'coming out' party which
suggests perverse, incestuous sexual initiation; but when Bill's shrink
later plays the tape back to him, he hears only innocuous conversation.
How does this connect with rich kid Ted's exclusive teen clique, or
Blanchard's death in a road accident? Is there a dark conspiracy, or is
Bill losing his marbles? First-time director Yuzna is happier with the
sly humour and clever plot shifts than with the appropriately iconic but
sometimes dramatically unconvincing cast. He nevertheless generates a
compelling sense of paranoid unease, and shifts into F/X overdrive for
an unforgettable horror finale. Suffice it to say that the 'surrealistic
make-up designs' by Screaming Mad George (who did the cockroach
sequence in Nightmare on Elm Street 4) will stretch even the most
inelastic mind.'
Nigel Floyd
Here (and above) is the trailer.
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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