31 DAYS OF DREW - DAY 7: SOCIETY

Every horrorhound's favorite month is upon us, and to celebrate, I'll be dishing out a personal pick from the genre for every day in October. Some will be obvious and rather unoriginal (sorry that I like movies other people like), while some will be a little more oddball and off-the-wall. Some may even challenge your idea of what constitutes a "horror" movie. Regardless, I hope you enjoy the month with some good movies, even if they aren't ones I recommend!

Today's Pick: Society (1989)

If there's one thing I unabashedly love about genre films from the 80's, it's the abundance of off-the-wall practical effects that became so commonplace that you expected them in almost every horror film. Some films could even get away with being terrible but remain watchable as long as they splurged on the effects budget (a perfect example of this would be 1986's Spookies). Society certainly isn't terrible, but it also isn't spectacular when it comes to its narrative. However, its effects are so insane and extravagant that they more than make up for any other flaws the film has.