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DARKSIDE OF SOCIETY Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Prepare yourself for an exploration of one of the most contentious, influential, and groundbreaking horror satires to emerge from the 1980s. Brian Yuzna's mesmerizing creation, "SOCIETY," delved into the depths of surreality, fearlessly exposing the shocking and sexually explicit acts perpetrated by the affluent upon the less fortunate. However, what you may not have known is that this chilling tale drew inspiration from real events—the heinous satanic ritual abuse conducted by the Keith family, members of the esteemed Beverly Hills elite. Furthermore, a captivating twist awaits, as we unveil the transformation of Woody Keith, the son of this sinister dynasty, who later adopted the name Zeph E. Daniel and collaborated on the screenplay for "SOCIETY" in an attempt to exorcise the demons of his violent upbringing. Brace yourself as we delve into the sordid details of how Daniel's gripping autobiography evolved into a timeless and chilling masterpiece that continues to haunt audiences to this day.

Directed by Larry Wade Carrell, THE DARKSIDE OF SOCIETY features Julian Sands, Brian Yuzna, Screaming Mad George, Richard Stanley.
Transcript
00:00 [MUSIC]
00:10 Don't get too hot.
00:15 [MUSIC]
00:17 Society really, I guess, embodies that basic paranoid archetype.
00:23 The notion that the whole world, the conventional civilization, society is lying to us.
00:30 [MUSIC]
00:32 It is a microscope put onto an elite upper class.
00:37 A lot of today's horror filmmakers like Gary Astor and Jordan Peele,
00:41 you could just feel that they must have been watching this film on late night TV when they were growing up.
00:47 The upper class, hey, you're a different species from us.
00:52 The basic concept of this whole movie is paranoia.
00:57 The rich are truly different.
00:59 [MUSIC]
01:03 I wrote the screenplay and didn't know what I wrote.
01:07 In case you don't know this is real, it's real.
01:10 It happened.
01:11 When Woody Keith wrote the script for Society, he thought he was writing a piece of fiction.
01:16 It turns out, Woody was exercising demons.
01:19 This is an autobiography.
01:21 You subconsciously or unsubconsciously wrote Society not realizing that it was things that happened to you.
01:28 Literally.
01:29 [MUSIC]
01:30 Journey back through the rich history of California and you will find Keith there.
01:35 He wanted to please his parents.
01:37 He wanted everything to be fine.
01:39 He loved them.
01:41 Supposed to be a loving family and yet some really unloving things happened.
01:46 What I saw when I was a child was, yeah, there was satanic ritual abuse.
01:50 [MUSIC]
01:52 Involving children and adults being groomed for sex.
01:57 I thought I was going to die.
01:58 We're essentially being set up for sacrifice or abuses.
02:02 Fueled or breeding stocked by a privileged inhuman elite.
02:06 [MUSIC]
02:08 Well, in the words of some of these people, like in the words of my own mother, it was like, well, that happens to everybody.
02:13 If you've got so much money, so much time to waste, what are you going to do?
02:18 You're going to sort of like exercise probably the worst tastes and the worst sort of extremes that you're ever going to go through.
02:27 These people are everywhere.
02:29 [MUSIC]
02:38 Everyone knows that story is real.
02:40 Wow.
02:40 [BLANK_AUDIO]