Is there body horror?
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Does some sort of experimentation, mutations, or other event happen that warps the body. Graphic and disturbing depictions of physical bodies.
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TV Show • 2023 Report
Yes
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cetacn
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episode two: the infected exhibit hair loss, discoloured skin, lesions, and significant fungal growth encompassing their face and shoulders in particular. in the late stages of infection, the face has become mutilated due to the fungus, and the teeth are rotted.
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
125
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Bricoleur
There's an entire planet grown from flesh that gets cut, burned, and squashed in various gross ways. CG animals are cut open and have artificial limbs and other additions attached to their bodies.
Movie • 2019 Report
Yes
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No
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KamiSteele
This is an extremely gory movie. It's hard to pinpoint what specifically, but it includes an elderly couple jumping to their deaths and one having to be euthanized with a mallet, someone's skin being used as a mask ala Leatherface, and a depiction of blood eagle torture.
Movie Report
Yes
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coleWOOW
Oh boy
Movie • 2024 Report
Yes
105
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onlycallisto
Extensive, think 80s horror like The Fly or The Thing
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
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No
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RamonaRamone
If you stretch the definition of “body horror” a bit, one character who is hospitalized after a possession goes horribly wrong slowly looks sicker and worse and his skin is more mottled as the movie continues. One eye is puffed shut.
But compared to classic body horror movies such as The Fly (1986), Rabid, Contracted, Spring, Cabin Fever, Videodrome, Scanners and Afflicted, this film doesn’t really fit the definition of a “body horror” sub-genre. There a several violent and gruesome moments, though, and the audience in the theater I was in yelled “HOAH!” at a few shots, but it’s more gore than traditional body horror.
A character cracks his head on a porcelain side of a tub and hard floor, then licks up his own blood from the floor while laughing. But again, that’s more violence and gore than actual body horror.
But compared to classic body horror movies such as The Fly (1986), Rabid, Contracted, Spring, Cabin Fever, Videodrome, Scanners and Afflicted, this film doesn’t really fit the definition of a “body horror” sub-genre. There a several violent and gruesome moments, though, and the audience in the theater I was in yelled “HOAH!” at a few shots, but it’s more gore than traditional body horror.
A character cracks his head on a porcelain side of a tub and hard floor, then licks up his own blood from the floor while laughing. But again, that’s more violence and gore than actual body horror.
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
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TheGoodSandy
In the tradition of Evil Dead, there is significant body horror.
TV Show • 2020 Report
Yes
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No
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Anon4625
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A woman is disintegrated and shown in parts (organs etc.)
Movie • 2024 Report
Yes
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14
Standard Deadpool’s blood, plus magic hand being shoved into face and a whole bunch of magic hand-face magic body horror. It’s hard to explain but hands get stuck in faces
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
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No
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saste12
Holy crap yes.
Movie • 2024 Report
Yes
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jordanowen
very mild though-
in a campy tv show, two people have their hearts cut out off screen. the beating hearts are shown in a fridge, and one character is scene with a bloody wound in that area but this is not easy to see.
someone cuts open their chest with a boxcutter but this is surreal and there is no blood or gore.
in a campy tv show, two people have their hearts cut out off screen. the beating hearts are shown in a fridge, and one character is scene with a bloody wound in that area but this is not easy to see.
someone cuts open their chest with a boxcutter but this is surreal and there is no blood or gore.
Movie • 2018 Report
Yes
81
No
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KamiSteele
There is a shot of a child's rotting decapitated head sitting in the middle of the road, covered in swarming ants. We also see a rotting corpse hidden in an attic. One character decapitates themselves using a piano wire. A mummified severed head is used as part of a statue.
TV Show • 2024 Report
Yes
79
No
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Maeday
There are creatures known as "Ghouls" in the Fallout universe, who are old humans who have been exposed to extreme radiation. They have no noses, and their skin is very burnt.
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
79
No
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kawara
You see skin flaking off in a dramatic and disturbing fashion.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
76
No
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Cryptid_Crow
Minimal, but it's there.
TV Show • 2021 Report
Yes
73
No
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EricaMarieLady
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Images of 2 frozen bodies, one of which has an ear fall off and kept in another character's pocket
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
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There’s nothing that actually fits body horror. There are bodily injuries and harm but not actual body horror
Movie • 2016 Report
Yes
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TV Show • 2023 Report
Yes
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An entire warehouse of people are melted to death with some kind of acid or other corrosive substance. Roderick mentions that it's highly corrosive a medical byproduct of a "less than legal development process"
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
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RamonaRamone
It’d take several paragraphs to describe it all, but it includes, among other body horror scenes (spoiler alert space, see below to read)
-a woman’s face is horrible seared under a hot lamp, flesh bubbles up and sizzled
-someone has to saw open their own skull in order to reach in and pull out a large chunk of their own brain, very graphic
-a woman has to saw off her own leg at the upper thigh with a wire, then stick a tube in to suck out the bone marrow (someone in my theater got up, picked up their stuff and walked out on the movie after the scene concluded). Very graphic.
-the flesh on part of a woman’s face is damaged by a deadly nerve gas, it almost looks rotted off
-someone’s eyes literally sucked out of their sockets by a strong vacuum
If you don’t want to see any body horror because it bothers/sickens you, I advise you to avoid the movie
-a woman’s face is horrible seared under a hot lamp, flesh bubbles up and sizzled
-someone has to saw open their own skull in order to reach in and pull out a large chunk of their own brain, very graphic
-a woman has to saw off her own leg at the upper thigh with a wire, then stick a tube in to suck out the bone marrow (someone in my theater got up, picked up their stuff and walked out on the movie after the scene concluded). Very graphic.
-the flesh on part of a woman’s face is damaged by a deadly nerve gas, it almost looks rotted off
-someone’s eyes literally sucked out of their sockets by a strong vacuum
If you don’t want to see any body horror because it bothers/sickens you, I advise you to avoid the movie
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
68
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howdywrites
If this is a big no for you, I would skip this movie. Lots of gore too
TV Show • 2005 Report
Yes
62
No
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Sebastian_Barton
Maybe not specifically body horror but the corpses are often incredibly mutilated, or decomposed to the point of becoming soup.
Video Game • 2017 Report
Yes
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FawnOverBrawn
The eyes sometimes go realistic, Natsuki glitches into death. It's mildly disturbing
TV Show • 2021 Report
Yes
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someone’s arm is blown off, no blood just a silhouette; many times throughout the show people drink or inject a purple liquid called shimmer which gives them very abnormal functions; surgery is performed on someone and their veins are very pronounced while this happens
Movie • 2024 Report
Yes
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RamonaRamone
All kinds! SPOILER WARNING FOR EXAMPLES
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One killer had her face eaten off but lived through it.(shown in Terrifier 2016) It was reconstructed over a year in the hospital but she still frightens small children. So she goes insane and homicidal and creeps around with no lips, teeth exposed, one eye missing, the other eye looking inhuman, and it does not look like a human face anymore.
Later the same character gets a shard of broken glass, put it under her skirt between her legs, and, uh, “touches herself” with it. We see blood pouring down the inside of her legs. We don’t see the glass actually make contact as she does it under her skirt, but ouch.
A woman has live rats forced down her throat and there’s a shot of her lower neck bulging and twisting as the rats got down that low. Her throat is cut and the bloody but live rats burst through.
Some of the worst is in a scene where a man is tied to a chair and blasted with liquid nitrogen, Art does his lower legs first, then hits them with a hammer until they shatter. At the end he blasts the guy’s face and shatters a large section of his face, very gory, his nose is gone. The final shot shows his one remaining eye darting around, meaning he was still alive and Art left him to die later. Now THAT is body horror!
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One killer had her face eaten off but lived through it.(shown in Terrifier 2016) It was reconstructed over a year in the hospital but she still frightens small children. So she goes insane and homicidal and creeps around with no lips, teeth exposed, one eye missing, the other eye looking inhuman, and it does not look like a human face anymore.
Later the same character gets a shard of broken glass, put it under her skirt between her legs, and, uh, “touches herself” with it. We see blood pouring down the inside of her legs. We don’t see the glass actually make contact as she does it under her skirt, but ouch.
A woman has live rats forced down her throat and there’s a shot of her lower neck bulging and twisting as the rats got down that low. Her throat is cut and the bloody but live rats burst through.
Some of the worst is in a scene where a man is tied to a chair and blasted with liquid nitrogen, Art does his lower legs first, then hits them with a hammer until they shatter. At the end he blasts the guy’s face and shatters a large section of his face, very gory, his nose is gone. The final shot shows his one remaining eye darting around, meaning he was still alive and Art left him to die later. Now THAT is body horror!
TV Show • 2005 Report
Yes
57
No
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Viomma
**Spoiler warning for planet of the Ood** we watch a human become an Ood and its nasty. To skip, about 40 minutes in when The Doctor says "Oh they've been preparing you for a long time" to Halpen skip ahead by about one minute.
Movie • 2024 Report
Yes
56
No
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There is also the noises of muscle flexing and straining and it is quite visceral
TV Show • 1993 Report
Yes
55
No
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AndieOCD
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Very severe
Podcast Report
Yes
55
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Anonymous
It is very prominent
TV Show • 2013 Report
Yes
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Pantalones
Several episodes feature grotesque abuses of the human body. Many of them are on corpses but not all. A woman's body is cut into segments. Someone is impaled on antlers. Human bodies are turned into beehives. A cannibal makes fancy food out of people.