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Dark Society

Originaltitel: Society
  • 1989
  • 16
  • 1 Std. 39 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,5/10
23.921
IHRE BEWERTUNG
Dark Society (1989)
An ordinary teenage boy discovers his family is part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.
trailer wiedergeben2:08
1 Video
99+ Fotos
Body-HorrorSatireSchwarze KomödieHorrorKomödie

Ein gewöhnlicher Teenager entdeckt, dass seine Familie Teil eines grausamen Orgiekults für die soziale Elite ist.Ein gewöhnlicher Teenager entdeckt, dass seine Familie Teil eines grausamen Orgiekults für die soziale Elite ist.Ein gewöhnlicher Teenager entdeckt, dass seine Familie Teil eines grausamen Orgiekults für die soziale Elite ist.

  • Regie
    • Brian Yuzna
  • Drehbuch
    • Zeph E. Daniel
    • Rick Fry
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Billy Warlock
    • Concetta D'Agnese
    • Ben Slack
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    6,5/10
    23.921
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Brian Yuzna
    • Drehbuch
      • Zeph E. Daniel
      • Rick Fry
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Billy Warlock
      • Concetta D'Agnese
      • Ben Slack
    • 157Benutzerrezensionen
    • 166Kritische Rezensionen
    • 50Metascore
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
    • Auszeichnungen
      • 1 Gewinn & 2 Nominierungen insgesamt

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    Billy Warlock
    Billy Warlock
    • Bill Whitney
    Concetta D'Agnese
    • Nan
    • (as Connie Danese)
    Ben Slack
    • Dr. Cleveland
    Evan Richards
    Evan Richards
    • Milo
    Patrice Jennings
    Patrice Jennings
    • Jenny Whitney
    Tim Bartell
    Tim Bartell
    • David Blanchard
    Charles Lucia
    Charles Lucia
    • Jim Whitney
    Heidi Kozak Haddad
    Heidi Kozak Haddad
    • Shauna
    • (as Heidi Kozak)
    Brian Bremer
    Brian Bremer
    • Petrie
    Ben Meyerson
    Ben Meyerson
    • Ferguson
    Devin DeVasquez
    Devin DeVasquez
    • Clarissa Carlyn
    Maria Claire
    • Sally
    Conan Yuzna
    • Jason
    Jason Williams
    Jason Williams
    • Jason's Friend
    Pamela Matheson
    • Mrs. Carlyn
    Rohni Lee
    • Ferguson's Gang
    Michael Schipper
    • Ferguson's Gang
    Chris Claridge
    • Ferguson's Gang
    • Regie
      • Brian Yuzna
    • Drehbuch
      • Zeph E. Daniel
      • Rick Fry
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    Cujo108

    Anything for Society!

    Beverly Hills teen Bill Whitney (Baywatch's Billy Warlock) is good at sports and popular at his high school, but he feels alienated from his upper crust family. His parents are indifferent towards him while lavishing favor upon his sister. Sometimes he even feels like they're conspiring against him, but is he just paranoid?

    This was Brian Yuzna's first film as director, and it's still his best. My love for this thing knows no boundaries. It's such a wonderfully unique mixture of social commentary, the 90210 lifestyle and incredibly warped horror. Oh, is the horror in Society ever warped! It's always fun showing this to first-timers and seeing their reactions to what unfolds on the screen. Horror aside, the film also works as both a joke on the rich and a scathing indictment regarding their tendency to leech off of the have-nots.

    Even though it's pretty clear right from the start that things aren't what they seem, there's a great sense of paranoia present in Society. Is Bill's rich family plotting against him? Are they even human? You wouldn't expect a former Baywatch star to be an alienated sort, but in the context of the film, it works. The pitch black humor works too, though there are a few more juvenile attempts at comedy (the kids on the beach) that are admittedly lame. In a way, however, they do add to the film's bizarre tone. I used to see the weirdo mother character as another pointless attempt at low-brow humor, but the more I've thought about it, she's likely there to represent a mishap through the shunt. Former Playboy centerfold, Devin Devasquez, plays her quirky daughter, Clarissa Carlyn. She's very appealing in the role, and it's refreshing to see a rich beauty portrayed as something other than an evil vixen for a change.

    The climactic scenes involving the big shunt are really something to behold. Words cannot do justice to the madness of this sequence. Spectacular, glorious madness! Nope, even those words don't do it justice. The very idea is quite perverse, and the special effects by Screaming Mad George are jaw-dropping. I'd be hard-pressed to come up with another horror film that comes close to rivaling Society's climax.

    I also can't go without mentioning the sinister reworking of the "Eton Boating Song" which plays over the film's opening credits. It's pure gold, and since the Anchor Bay DVD's menu has it playing on a loop, I like to leave it on the menu for a bit after I've finished the film.

    Society has a never-ending charm that's impossible for me to tire of. I'd probably rank it somewhere among my top ten personal favorite horror films if I were to make such a list. I remember trekking all over the metroplex just to find a copy back on the DVD's release date (the same day Near Dark hit DVD from what I remember). Good times!
    chaos-rampant

    Tele-vision

    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.
    Katatonia

    Classic 80's horror!!!

    I remember first seeing this film about the time it was released in the late 80's, and it immediately struck me as intensely disturbing. That's a good thing for a horror film because not too many really disturb me. It has become one of my favorite horror films, and the reason for this is that it has such an original story, memorable characters, and it doesn't care who it grosses out! From the few people who hated this movie, they're obviously weak-stomached or perhaps even members of "Society"???

    If you can't stand bizarre horror movies in the vein of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Deranged, Hellraiser 1 and 2, Motel Hell, etc... then you probably will not enjoy this film...especially the last half hour. This is not for every audience and clearly doesn't pretend to be.

    I've owned the video for years and recently also bought the Unrated DVD, i must say it is great finally having a very clear picture and sound...in it's uncut form! They just don't make many shockingly good horror flicks like this anymore...
    7Gafke

    What the...?

    This is one of the weirdest movies I have ever seen, somewhat akin to watching a Lovecraft tale as told by John Waters. I think I liked it. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I did...I guess.

    Billy (Bill Warlock of soap opera fame) is nearly 18, and has spent his youth living a life of privilege with his wealthy family in Beverly Hills. However, he senses that something is wrong. He does not look like his mother, father or sister, and indeed, they treat him as though he were an outsider. Oh, they're always very pleasant and polite, but they're somewhat distant and rather cold, displaying no real emotions towards him or anyone else. Tragic news is met with blank expressions and vacant smiles. Billy's girlfriend is too busy obsessing about parties to care about Billy's mounting concerns, and his psychiatrist dismisses his worries with prescriptions. When Billy hears an audio tape recorded by his sisters' most recent dumpee, his worst fears are confirmed: something unnatural is happening, something incestuous and profane. But the dumpee disappears, the tape recording alters itself, and Billy finds himself being slowly and deliberately cornered by The Society.

    For all that this film is a dark comment on the soullessness of the upper classes, it never really takes itself seriously. Indeed, if it had, this movie would have died a quick death and taken up residence in the discount PVT bin at Blockbuster Video, cursed as it is with all the hideousness of the 1980s, denim and synth music and helmets of bleached hair everywhere. But this movie is so odd and freaky with the most morbid sense of humor running all the way through it that it works, and works pretty good. The special effects look a bit dated, but they're so hilarious that you won't care. (insert "butthead" scene here.) The "shunting" scene is still difficult to watch for people like me who have a low tolerance for sadism and gore, but I've seen gorier and the concept was so innovative that I had to appreciate it.

    If you ever wanted to see one of those sappy teen movies from the 80s, (preferably the ones that starred Michael J. Fox or Molly Ringwald) tortured, dismembered and publicly humiliated, then this might just be the film for you.
    9kevin_robbins

    The ending is a lot

    Society (1989) is a movie that I recently watched on Shudder. The storyline follows a young man who notices his family and siblings are odd, more odd than usual. He also feels his girlfriend is acting peculiar and is obsessed with attending a socially elite party. As events of the upcoming weekend unfold the young man investigates the party where he finds his parents, his girlfriend and so many others he grew up with have a strange secret that may mean the end of his existence.

    This movie is directed by Brian Yuzna (Beyond Reanimator) and stars Billy Warlock (Halloween II), Evan Richards (Twilight Zone: The Movie), Patrice Jennings (Growing Pains), Brian Bremer (Pumpkinhead) and Heidi Kozak Haddad (Slumber Party Massacre).

    There's a lot to like about this movie...and most of it is at the very end. The apple opening was a bit gross. The acting and writing is average to above average until the final sequence. Then the special effects, concept and circumstances come full circle and it's a mix of shocking, tremendous gore and unreal circumstances you could never imagine. There's some classic 80s nudity and the "There's no business like show business" line always cracks me up. I may have said this already...but the ending is a lot. 😂

    Overall, this is an underrated classic within the horror genre that is an absolutely must see. I would score this an 8.5-9/10 and strongly recommend it.

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    • Wissenswertes
      The scene where Billy sees Jenny's body distort in the shower was added during the production because director Brian Yuzna felt another shocking scene was needed earlier in the film.
    • Patzer
      When Billy brings Blanchard's tape to his psychiatrist's home (24 minutes, 58 seconds into the film), the shadow of the boom mic is clearly visible moving across the edge of the open door.
    • Zitate

      Clarissa Carlyn: How do you like your tea? Cream, sugar... or do you want me to pee in it?

      Bill Whitney: [after being speechless for a few seconds] You are a class act, Clarissa.

    • Alternative Versionen
      Although listed as 99 minutes, the Republic Pictures Home Video version released in the U.S. and Canada (through Malofilm) is actually only 95, deleting many of Screaming Mad George's special effects to get an "R" rating.
    • Verbindungen
      Featured in Fear in the Dark (1991)
    • Soundtracks
      Blue Danube
      by Johann Strauss

      Arranged by Mark Ryder & Phil Davies

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 3. März 1990 (Japan)
    • Herkunftsländer
      • Vereinigte Staaten
      • Japan
    • Sprache
      • Englisch
    • Auch bekannt als
      • Sociedad de mutantes
    • Drehorte
      • Wrigley Mansion - 391 S. Orange Grove Boulevard, Pasadena, Kalifornien, USA(exterior: mansion)
    • Produktionsfirmen
      • Wild Street Pictures
      • Society Productions
      • Screaming Mad George
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      • 2.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
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      • 118 $
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      • 1 Std. 39 Min.(99 min)
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