Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
Bill Whitney is worried that he is different to his sister and parents. They mix with other upper-class people while Bill is more down to earth. Even his girlfriend seems a bit odd. All is revealed when Bill returns home to find a party in full swing.
Society is a genuinely singular piece of body-horror surrealism from Brian Yuzna. The plot is a slow-burn class satire that works moderately well but meanders in its middle section. Acting is serviceable B-movie fare — competent but rarely memorable. Cinematography is functional with some effectively lit set pieces. Where the film truly earns outlier scores is in Novelty and Ending: the climactic 'shunting' sequence is one of the most inventively grotesque and conceptually audacious practical-effects set pieces in horror history, delivering a gut-punch finale that is utterly unlike anything else in the genre. The film's class-warfare allegory rendered through literal bodily fusion is a one-of-a-kind conception that demands a top Novelty score.