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Young Billy, who had been adopted by a wealthy Beverly Hills family when he was still a child, is assaulted by strange and hallucinatory visions involving his own relatives. He is convinced that they are a kind of mutant monsters that merge through rituals and orgiastic practices... A fierce and no-holds-barred critique of the snobbery of certain American bourgeoisie (the key line in this sense is undoubtedly "The rich have always eaten the poor's shit!"). A particular horror (but perhaps defining it in a genre would be reductive) politically engaged film that could be called almost "revolutionary", directed by one of the most inventive genre directors still in circulation. The opening credits already show that we are not dealing with an ordinary film. Yuzna has the brilliant idea of anticipating the climax orgy, without the audience naturally being able to understand what it is about! The film has a rather slow central part - but absolutely functional to the rest of the film - in which Yuzna manages to create an atmosphere of unease, describing the family, the quintessential American institution, as a place of unhealthy perversions and disturbing visions. But it is in the final half hour that the film redeems itself, with the staging of a kind of orgy of the flesh: fusions, bodies that dissolve, contort, and recompose, all thanks to the marvelous special effects of Screaming "Mad" George. An absolute must-see cult film!