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
181
No
6
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Mommagranate
S1
E1
Low/expectable level of cordyceps based body horror
Movie • 2024 Report
Yes
180
No
0
36
onlycallisto
Extensive, think 80s horror like The Fly or The Thing
Movie • 2019 Report
Yes
131
No
3
11
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 • 2023 Report
Yes
125
No
0
13
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 Report
Yes
109
No
1
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coleWOOW
Oh boy
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
106
No
5
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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.
TV Show • 2021 Report
Yes
105
No
1
5
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
TV Show • 2021 Report
Yes
105
No
7
1
EricaMarieLady
S2
E2
Images of 2 frozen bodies, one of which has an ear fall off and kept in another character's pocket
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
101
No
0
9
TheGoodSandy
In the tradition of Evil Dead, there is significant body horror.
Movie • 2024 Report
Yes
100
No
0
21
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.
TV Show • 2020 Report
Yes
98
No
1
3
Anon4625
S1
E1
A woman is disintegrated and shown in parts (organs etc.)
Movie • 2024 Report
Yes
93
No
0
16
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 • 2018 Report
Yes
92
No
4
16
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.
Movie • 2024 Report
Yes
88
No
0
11
snackmmspickles
Very grotesque rotting vampires and a plague that causes people to vomit blood.
Also violent possession scenes if that counts
Also violent possession scenes if that counts
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
88
No
1
14
saste12
Holy crap yes.
TV Show • 2024 Report
Yes
81
No
3
4
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
81
No
8
8
kawara
You see skin flaking off in a dramatic and disturbing fashion.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
78
No
4
4
Cryptid_Crow
Minimal, but it's there.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
76
No
56
20
There’s nothing that actually fits body horror. There are bodily injuries and harm but not actual body horror
Movie • 2016 Report
Yes
75
No
3
1
cor_cat1242
The whole movie franchise is known for its extremely explicit and graphic body horror. This movie is only for hardcore horror movie fans, or people who can definitely handle their stomachs.
TV Show • 2011 Report
Yes
74
No
43
3
Shrine
There is a transformation sequence. It's not gory in the bloody way but it could be disturbing especially if bone cracking sounds are alarming to you.
Movie • 2024 Report
Yes
73
No
3
22
Carz
It’s on monkeys, but definitely horrific. No blood though
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
72
No
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9
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
TV Show • 2023 Report
Yes
71
No
2
15
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 • 2024 Report
Yes
71
No
0
7
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!
Video Game • 2024 Report
Yes
71
No
0
10
SuzieBelle
one of the main characters becomes severely mutilated after an accident and you frequently visit them.
the opening scene involves the main character hallucinating a horse mascot statue slowly gain more and more limbs, eyes, heads, etc.
another hallucination involves the mascot as a huge, hulking monster with an impossibly long, bent neck, stalking and watching the player as they travel through a maze.
another hallucination involves the mascot as a long, centipede-like monster, reminiscent of how it looked during the first hallucination, stalking you through vents and crawling along the ceiling.
the opening scene involves the main character hallucinating a horse mascot statue slowly gain more and more limbs, eyes, heads, etc.
another hallucination involves the mascot as a huge, hulking monster with an impossibly long, bent neck, stalking and watching the player as they travel through a maze.
another hallucination involves the mascot as a long, centipede-like monster, reminiscent of how it looked during the first hallucination, stalking you through vents and crawling along the ceiling.
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
68
No
5
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howdywrites
If this is a big no for you, I would skip this movie. Lots of gore too
Movie • 2024 Report
Yes
66
No
0
10
mistersandman
[SPOILERS] Similar to the original Alien movie, there’s a scene in Romulus where a newborn Xenomorph bursts through a person’s chest. Near the end of the film, a woman gives birth to a giant egg, which hatches a giant, terrifying humanoid creature.
TV Show • 1993 Report
Yes
65
No
32
1
Goatsipstea
S2
E2
The entire episode is heavily centered around body horror- not for the faint of heart
TV Show • 2005 Report
Yes
64
No
18
0
Sebastian_Barton
Maybe not specifically body horror but the corpses are often incredibly mutilated, or decomposed to the point of becoming soup.