Body horror!

A truly unsettling and fascinating subgenre indeed, body horror (also known as biological or organic horror) is a type of horror fiction where the primary source of terror comes from the grotesque or psychologically disturbing violation, transformation, degeneration, or destruction of the physical body.

It often plays on deep-seated anxieties about physical vulnerability and loss of control over one's own body.

A key element is that the body's violation is usually not the result of immediate or initial violence, but rather a loss of conscious control over the body due to mutation, invasion, decay or scientific interference.

The horror often centers on an individual watching their own body betray them, change, or collapse, rather than being hunted by an external creature.

Guillermo del Toro famously described body horror as the "betrayal of the flesh."

The genre intentionally invokes intense feelings of physical and psychological disgust, pushing the limits of what the audience can bear to watch.

 ...but enough with the chit chat. Below, you will find a cornucopia of movie recommendations on disgusting body horror films. 

Please enjoy! 💋

 

Nr	Tittel	År	IMDb
1	Les yeux sans visage	1960	7,8
2	The Incredible Shrinking Man	1957	7,7
3	The Fly	1986	7,5
4	Videodrome	1983	7,3
5	Little Otik	2000	7,2
6	Re-Animator	1985	7,2
7	ExistenZ	1999	6,8
8	Dumplings	2004	6,8
9	Tetsuo	1989	6,8
10	Altered States	1980	6,8
11	The came from within	1975	6,6
12	The company of wolves	1984	6,6
13	Fears of the dark	2007	6,6
14	Brain Damage	1988	6,5
15	Society	1989	6,4
16	Fire in the sky	1993	6,4
17	In my skin	2002	6,3
18	Crash	1996	6,3
19	Tetsuo 2	1992	6,2
20	Splinter	2008	6,1
21	Basket Case	1982	6
22	Bug	2006	6
23	Splice	2009	5,9
24	Slit mouthed woman	2007	5,8
25	It`s alive	1974	5,7
26	Teeth	2007	5,6
27	Mulberry Street	2006	5,6
28	Henge	2011	5,5
29	Mutants	2009	5,5
30	Feed	2005	5,3
31	Grace	2009	5,2
32	Body Melt	1993	4,7
33	The human Centipede	2009	4,6
34	The Facility	2012	4,5
35	Lord of Darkness	2012	4,5
36	Expiration	2011	4,3
37	Cell Count	2012	3,7