History YMMV / Society

* CrossesTheLineTwice: All over the place in the climactic "shunt" party where the imagery and dialogue constantly swings back between "hilarious" and "terrifying":

** After the genuinely tense and brutal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Ted delivers to Billy, Billy manages to pick himself up after Ted is interrupted and spitefully winds him up by goading "c'mon, WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}!"

* [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids What Do You Mean It's Not For Anyone Under 18?]]: The Amazon Prime video somehow only got a 13+ rating. Considering that this film has copious gore, nudity and incomprehensibly disgusting and psychosexual BodyHorror, you think they might check first.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: ''Society'' was received tepidly in North America where audiences were almost universally put off by the gross imagery and over-the-top writing, but the ''British'' ate it up and droves where ''Society'' performed extremely well. Yuzna remarked the British seemed to understand the film's commentary on the upper-class better, which makes perfect sense; the British were fresh off the rule of [[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher the "Iron Lady."]]

*** [[BigBad Judge Carter]] is the most powerful member of the nebulous upper-class Society, a "different race" from humanity that for centuries has [[KillThePoor feasted upon the lower class]]. Routinely organizing grotesque "shunts", Carter and the other members of Society of Beverly Hills regularly devour victims in horrific BodyHorror orgy-feasts that end with their victims tortuously devoured, always meticulously covering up their deaths as unrelated disappearances. Carter demonstrates the shunt in its full visceral horror by devouring a teenager who finds out too much for his own good, even momentarily pausing the shunt to allow one of the Society's members to beat the hero Bill to a bloody pulp before intending to devour him as well.

* NightmareFuel: Sweet Christmas, you'd better believe it. [[NightmareFuel/{{Society}} Now has its own page]].

*** All of them seem more grossed out by Ted "congealing" and dying than they do over Billy's escape or the loss of one of their own. Even the Judge seems more annoyed at having to find someone else to fill an internship.

*** [[AbusiveParents Jim and Nan]], seemingly the idyllic, wealthy parents of hero Bill Whitney, are in actuality a ravenous couple who engage in [[VillainousIncest incestuous orgies]] with their daughter Jenny and participate in the shunts with the same frequency as the other members of Society. Jim and Nan adopted Bill for the sole purpose of fattening him up to devour him, {{gaslighting}} and even drugging Billy for seventeen straight years before finally revealing their true colors and taunting him about the fate they've prepared for him, intent on making him the pièce de résistance in the latest shunt.

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: There's a reason Screaming Mad George is held in such high esteem among practical FX artists.

** After the genuinely tense and brutal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Ted delivers to Billy, Billy manages to pick himself up after Ted is interrupted and spitefully winds him up by goading him "c'mon, WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}!"

* MoralEventHorizon: No member of Society is by any stretch a good person (except [[TokenHeroicOrc Clarissa and her mom]]), but Billy's own adoptive parents rank among the worst of them and fly across the line when it's revealed they aren't Billy's parents at ''all'', having adopted him and raised him from the time he was a baby for seventeen years, all for the sake of using him in the shunt.

* MoralEventHorizon: No member of Society is by any stretch a good person, but Billy's own parents rank among the worst of them and fly across the line when it's revealed they aren't Billy's parents at ''all'', having adopted him and raised him from the time he was a baby for seventeen years, all for the sake of using him in the shunt.