{"id":44832,"date":"2024-08-13T09:18:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T13:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=44832"},"modified":"2024-08-13T09:20:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T13:20:16","slug":"the-darkside-of-society-2024-popcorn-frights-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/13\/the-darkside-of-society-2024-popcorn-frights-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The Darkside of Society (2024) [Popcorn Frights 2024]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DarksideOfSociety.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DarksideOfSociety.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DarksideOfSociety.jpg 641w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DarksideOfSociety-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DarksideOfSociety-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/a>There\u2019s nothing I love more than a documentary about the conception of one of the most notorious cult classics ever made. Brian Yuzna\u2019s 1989 horror satire is a gross, vile look at the amorality of the affluent. What I don\u2019t like is a documentary that paints itself as a look at the making of a movie and is in reality conspiracy claptrap garbage sexual abuse, ritual child abuse, and sexual violence that has about two percent to do with Brian Yuzna\u2019s movie.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Watching \u201cThe Darkside of Society\u201d is almost like sitting down to talk with someone about the creation of \u201cTroll 2\u201d only for the topic to quickly devolve in to discussions about sex slavery, snuff films and red rooms. It\u2019s vile, disturbing, and it\u2019s the basis for easily <em><strong>the worst documentary I have ever seen<\/strong><\/em>. Larry Wade Carrell\u2019s movie is barely eighty minutes of rapid fire nonsense that is all baseless, speculative, and intended to fire up a certain crowd (they\u2019re between the P and R subsect) rather than touch on actual issues.<\/p>\n<p>The director doesn\u2019t seem all that interested in celebrating or talking about \u201cSociety,\u201d only spending about ten minutes of the movie on the pretty excellently conducted scenes of body deformation in \u201cSociety.\u201d Then without any preamble the main topic Zeph E. Daniel begins muttering \u201cIt\u2019s real. This really happened! It\u2019s all real. This happened to children.\u201d Obviously he doesn\u2019t mean this literally, but he empathically charges in head first in to endless conspiracy theories, and rumors, and ideas about sexual sacrifices, and horrendous sexual violence involving children.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all absolutely painful, pointless, and dreadfully dull. Rather than commit to actual change, \u201cThe Darkside of Society\u201d is about as performative and exploitative as Werner Herzog.<\/p>\n<p>It will most likely infuriate fans of Brian Yuzna\u2019s movie that have followed it and stuck by it from its origins as a reviled genre film in to itsa evolution in to a bonafide cult classic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This year Popcorn Frights is held virtually and in person from August 8<sup>th<\/sup> through August 18<sup>th<\/sup> at Savor Cinema Fort Lauderdale, Florida.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s nothing I love more than a documentary about the conception of one of the most notorious cult classics ever made. Brian Yuzna\u2019s 1989 horror satire is a gross, vile look at the amorality of the affluent. What I don\u2019t like is a documentary that paints itself as a look at the making of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1284,12],"tags":[138,3442,292,359,477,501],"class_list":["post-44832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festivalsevents","category-movie-reviews","tag-biography","tag-brian-yuzna","tag-documentary","tag-filmmaking","tag-horror","tag-indie-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44832"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44836,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44832\/revisions\/44836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}