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The Stuff
Why this pick
Like Society, it turns affluent consumer normality into gleefully grotesque social satire, escalating from nagging suspicion to exuberant practical-effects body horror.
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MOVIE1989 1h 40m USA
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Parents
Why this pick
Its polished 1950s suburban surface hides a child’s mounting unease about his picture-perfect family, matching Society’s paranoid, darkly comic attack on respectable domestic life.
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The 'Burbs
Why this pick
A funny, increasingly unhinged suburbia nightmare in which everyday neighborly manners conceal menace; it shares Society’s suspicious protagonist and cartoonishly heightened social discomfort.
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They Live
Why this pick
Carpenter’s muscular, deadpan conspiracy horror similarly makes class hierarchy and consumer culture literal monsters, balancing pulpy thrills, satire, and a hero awakening to an obscene hidden order.
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The People Under the Stairs
Why this pick
A young outsider enters an apparently respectable wealthy household and discovers an exaggerated nightmare of cruelty and privilege, with Society’s mix of class rage, horror, and wicked humor.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Bill Whitney seems to have it all. His family is wealthy and he lives in a mansion in Beverly Hills, California. He's popular at his high school, looks to be a shoo-in for class president, has a cute cheerleader girlfriend and owns a new Jeep Wrangler to drive around in. Despite this, he tells his therapist that he does not trust or fit in with his high-society family. When his sister's ex-boyfriend Blanchard gives him a surreptitiously recorded tape of what sounds like his family engaged in a vile, murderous orgy, Bill begins to suspect that his feelings are justified.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Billy Warlock
Bill Whitney
Connie Danese
Nan
Ben Slack
Dr. Cleveland
Evan Richards
Milo
Patrice Jennings
Jenny Whitney
Charles Lucia
Jim Whitney
Heidi Kozak
Shauna
Brian Bremer
Petrie