Following a plane crash a group of schoolboys find themselves on a deserted island. They appoint a leader and attempt to create an organized society for the sake of their survival. Democracy and order soon begin to crumble when a breakaway faction regresses to savagery with horrifying consequences.

The final, feral throes of Peter Brook’s allegorical classic may have lost none of their vicious power, but there’s as much horror to be found in the opening rituals transposed to the infernal isle. Lord of the Flies remains a terrifying, microcosmic study in social disintegration. “Kill the pig!”