Lamplight Drivel

Possible Spoilers I recalled Brian Yuzna's name from the credits of RE-ANIMATOR , one of my favorite horror films.  By the time his directorial debut SOCIETY opened in theaters (shot in '89 but not released until '92) I had kinda moved on from watching grade B horror on my own.  A little later I did have friends who were into those Full Moon video titles and coerced me into watching them.  I don't remember this one playing in West Palm Beach, and in the early '90s I did not have cable.  It was a few years back that the title was popping up on Letterboxd with favorable notices.  Then the Criterion Channel included in it its October lineup under "80s Horror".   I dove in...and that really is the way to describe this grotesque littler chiller.  By the much discussed finale, I felt as if I was plunged into the muck, not necessarily emerging any wiser or necessarily enlightened, despite Yuza and screenwriters Woody Keith and Rick Fry must've hoped and ...