SOCIETY body horror inspired by THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

I’ve been enjoying the second season of Eli Roth’s History of Horror on AMC, and in the episode of Body Horror an interesting and unexpected statement was shared in the commentary. Brian Yuzna, the director of a film that had escaped me previously, Society (1989), was talking about the influences on him that led to the creation of that particular piece of horror. To my great surprise he mentioned watching The Ten Commandments as a child with its scenes of a staff being turned into a snake, the death of the firstborn through divine green mist, and an idolatrous orgy in the climax. The latter scene he said was particularly influential on the final scene of Society which ends in the rich consuming the poor in a cannibalistic orgy. I’ll have to track Society down. Although I’m not a big body horror fan, I’m fascinated by the influences and commentary, and that someone else has read the Bible as horror.