I am totally in love with indie flick Socket, a kind of body horror/scifi tale of people who get addicted to electricity and mod their bodies to suck up current better. Apparently when you get struck with lightning (at least in this movie) you are left with a hunger for more. Unfortunately, the most pure and complete feeling of voltage satisfaction comes only when you get that electricity while making a circuit with another person. The rules of the game change when Bill, a surgeon, gets struck with lightning and gets hooked on sockets. He and his intern boy toy start implanting plugs in their bodies (as you can see in this clip), while their group of wirehead friends start doing the same thing and having giant electroshock orgies. It wouldn't be the weekend without a little plugging in and getting off, would it? [Socket]

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