At Flashbak, I tally five horror films that raged against the Yuppie value system during the actual Yuppie Heyday of the 1980s and 1990s.
Here's a snippet and the url: (http://flashbak.com/die-yuppie-scum-five-horror-movies-that-raged-against-the-eighties-28864/ )
"The
term “yuppie” came into fashion in America in the early 1980s to describe “young, upwardly mobile professionals.”
But
in less formal sounding terms, yuppies were soon widely characterized in the
pop culture by a powerful love of two things: extreme wealth, and themselves.
Newsweek
Magazine proclaimed 1984 the “year” of the Yuppie, but that was
probably the high point for the movement.
Ever since the 1990s, the term yuppie has widely been considered a term
of derision, and an explicit reminder of the worst Gordon Gekko-like excesses
of the Eighties.
Although
modern horror films such as American Psycho (2000) also dissect the
Age of the Yuppie in wicked terms, a number of horror films actually took on
Yuppies much earlier than that..
Here
are five horror films that observed the worst qualities of Yuppies and their
world view and took them on…in their heyday."
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