Recensioni de* critic*

With special effects courtesy of Japanese master "Screaming Mad George," you won't be able to dismiss Society's biting social commentary—or look away for a second.

As cheaply made and ramshackle as the film is, the brilliance of Society is that its vision of societal cannibalism is couched in the familiar and angsty perspective of children not quite understanding what their own parents are doing, loudly, behind closed doors. This universal anxiety doesn't eventually lead to a symbolic creature or force but to the workings of society itself.

Society is built on a bedrock of purposefully jokey flimsiness that's meant to scan as satire. This film abounds in presentational staging that's artfully un-artful, often involving blocking in which the subjects are placed in the center of the screen, usually facing us in a confrontational, deliberately obvious head-on manner, though Society lacks the scathing energy of those other movies or anything directed by Stuart Gordon, Yuzna's frequent collaborator.