Disease in horror movies

Bilde: Body Melt (1983)

(Photo: Body Melt (1993))

There seems to be no limit to the ways in which our bodies can malfunction.

Did you know you can get cancer in your teeth? 😕

The topic of disease has been widely explored in horror. Of course. Here, for your convenience, are some tips on horror involving bodily disfunction, decay and illness!

Tittel	År
Relic	2020
Mulberry St	2006
The Bewailing aka The Nest	2021
The Fly	1986
Feed	2005
Bug	2006
Thanatomorphose	2012
Afflicted	2013
Excision	2012
Grace	2009
Bite	2015
Shivers	1975
Contracted	2013
The eyes of my Mother	2016
Bad Biology	2008
Mørke Sjeler aka Dark Souls	2010
Brain Damage	1988
Writhing Tongue	1980
Kotoko	2011
Orphan	2009
Infection aka Kansen	2004
The Crazies	2010
Splinter	2008
Cabin Fever	2002
Sick Nurses	2007
Body Melt	1993
The Taking of Deborah Logan	2014

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Uplifting horror with merry violence!

Things rarely go well for people in the movies we like. Things mostly go straight to the black bowels of Hell. (If you know, you know...) So what do you do when you're really into horror movies on the more cheerful side of the spectrum? A little bit of merry violence? You head over to the Horror Rookie Academy and ask the rookies for movie tips! Below you'll find tips that came in response to the following questions: Hey! Does anyone have any tips for uplifting horror? I'd love to have a good dose of happy violence also. Tittel År IMDb Evil Dead 2 1987 7,7 Army of Darkness 1992 7,4 Bubba Ho Tep 2002 6,9 Brain Damage 1988 6,5 Evil Ed 1995 5,5 Return of the living Dead 1985 7,3 Tucker and Dale vs Evil 2010 7,5 The Cottage 2008 6,1 Sightseers 2012 6,5 Severance 2006 6,4 Bad Boy bubby 1993 7,3 Rubber 2010 5,7 Space Station 76 2014 4,9 Motivational Growth 2013 5,7 Teeth 2007 5,4 The Crazies 2010 6,5 Slither 2006 6,5 Deadstream 2022 6,4 Scouts guide to the Zombie apocalypse 20...

32 Liminal horror movies

Let's begin with the beginning: what in the world is "liminal" - and "liminal horror"? The word liminal itself is defined quite differently by different sources, but the essence is as follows: - a state/position at or on both sides of a threshold/border - a transition between states or the initial phase of a process of change As far as I understand, Liminal horror points to both this and at the same time to what is called liminal spaces , which are: - areas and architecture that lead you from something to something else, and which are not intended as anything more/other. Corridors, underpasses, aqueducts, airports, queues, waiting rooms... 'Non - destinational places', as my husband called it when I tried to explain it. Apt term! 😍 - Emotionally, liminal spaces are, for example, grief and growing up - Psychologically and socially, it's is 'nothing' between different feelings or states: the state of post partum and detox are two examp...

Feinschmecker giallo films!

It's really hard not to like giallo when you like horror movies. If you ask me. It has the seventies feel to it, it has slashing, practical effects, razors and negligees, black gloves and mansions. ...and the names of these movie, my goodness. "Aunt Martha does dreadful things", for example. 😍 One of our rookies is a regular cornucopia of knowledge of giallo, and he dug into his mind looking for the more obscure giallo movies. Enjoy! ✌ Murder Obsession (Riccardo Freda, 1980; Italian: Follia omicida) aka Fear, aka The Wailing, aka The Murder Syndrome The Secret of Seagull Island (Nestore Ungaro, 1981; Italian: L'isola del gabbiano) Madhouse (Ovidio Assonitis, 1981) aka There Was a Little Girl Tenebrae (Dario Argento, 1982) aka Unsane The Scorpion with Two Tails (Sergio Martino, 1982; Italian: Assassinio al cimitero etrusco / Murder in the Etruscan Cemetery) A Blade in the Dark (Lamberto Bava, 1982; Italian: La casa con la scala nel buio / The House with the Dar...

PPH: om Post Production Hell

Det ringer inn til det som mye mulig er siste time i Back to school weekend. Tema: POST PRODUCTION HELL! Dette er et uttrykk som filmgeeks gjerne slenger om seg med; her går tante Grusom i dybden og forklarer litt nærmere hva dette innebærer. Post production hell -eller Development hell / Development limbo- er et begrep som brukes om filmer og spill som "fanges" i etterproduksjon. Disse prosjektene kan bli forsinket med mange herrens år - eller de ender opp med aldri å komme ut. "Independence Day 2" var et eksempel på en film som holdes i postprod limbo; der befant den seg siden 1997 og fram til utgivelse i 2018. World War Z er nok en annen film som har vært en snartur innom postprod hell for en kjapp skjending og refokusering. Urk! Hvordan ender så enkelte filmer opp i denne tilstanden? Årsakene kan være mange: 1. Skaperen av åndsverket har solgt rettighetene til et studio med sine regissører og produsenter; infrastrukturelle endringer i filmverdene...

15 years of Academy headers!

A good header is a great thing ! Since 2011, the Horror Rookie Academy has focused quite a bit on page headers. The header constitutes the graphic profile of the Academy. It is what first meets the eye, what gives the first impression, and it sets the tone. Design- wise, we have kept the headers simple and symmetric -and a bit classy. We present to you: 15 years of Academy headers! (Laget av skrekkrutt Sørbø.) (Artwork: Kim Holm)

The Rookies love Stephen King!

The calendar reads september 21st, and it's Stephen King's birthday! Just hearing or seing his name invokes strong feelings in the minds of those prone to horror. And those prone to books, of course. The bibliophiles that walk among us. The rookies, many of them confessing to both the love of books and of horror, are no exception: in fact, they love Stephen King so much that they dedicated an entire week to exploring his books and the films originating from them! One can say a lot about the film adaptions of Stephen King. Many of these film adaptations were made in the nineties, a time when... well, let's say the film industry was still finding its way into the "new" world. Some of these are brilliant, others are... well, effects, glitter and crap in a blissful mix. Several of these adaptations reside on the lower half of the IDMb scale. However, they all have in common this... thing about them, then. This King thing. A coming of age, cosy, creepy and often sli...

Everyone loves Sci-fi!

(Foto: 2001: a space oddesey (1968) Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that explores futuristic scientific concepts and their impact on society or individuals, featuring elements such as advanced technology, space travel, extraterrestrial life, time travel, and parallel universes. Stories often revolve around imagined scientific or technological advancements, exploring potential futures, alternative histories, or entirely new worlds and life forms. ...and pew pew! Without further adue: here are a bunch of sci-fi movie tips! Tittel År The Silent Sea 2021 The Blob 1988 Apollo 18 2011 Starcrash 1978 The Fourth Kind 2009 The Wandering Earth 2019 Terra Formars 2017 Geo-disaster 2017 Enemy Mine 1985 Videodrome 1983 Arrival 2016 Firerfly 2002 Attack the Block 2011 SCP: Overlord 2020 Beyond the black rainbow 2010 The Signal 2007 Splice 2009 Trailer War 2012 Nightflyers 2018 Annihilation 2018 Cargo 2009 Event Horizon 1997 Kung Fury (short) 2015 Invasion of the Bo...

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...

Lucio Fulci films you need to watch!

Lucio Fulci (1927-1996) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor. With his sharp tongue and a dark sense of humor, his career spanned from comedy via giallo to splatter films of the 1970s and 1980s he became particulary well known and loved for. Fulci made his international breakthrough with Zombi 2 in 1979 (a nominal sequel to George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead, which was called Zombi in Italy). The film featured bold cinematography, tangible atmosphere and a lot(!) of blood and gore. Zombi 2 gave him a reputation as a veritable master of horror, and he followed up Zombie 2 with several other horror films that led to him being compared to Italy's other horror master, Dario Argento. The two never worked together, and Fulci also became known for constantly slamming Argento and his work. An ever so toxic bromance straight out of Hell, I guess. I love you but I hate you but I love you but I hate you, sort of. One dark and stormy evening, an evening of u...

Queer roles in horror

At the Horror Rookie Academy , a very interesting exchange of opinions emerged in the spring of 2022 on the topic of queer roles in horror . In the following, I will explain why I think it is both okay and important to lift queer roles in horror films. The text represents the author's opinion. In the wake of a really interesting analysis done by Dread Central (a must-read!), it was suggested that queer roles may take the focus away from the horror in horror films. This got me thinking. Thinking real good. Could it be that queer roles, roles protraying people like me, among the majority may be perceived as unnecessary to the plot in horror films? As something forced? Queer people are very used to seeing a different type of love than our own being central to the films we watch. One of the things that makes me love films in general, and horror in particular, is that you get to enter situations where you are sort of exempt from constantly having to connect your own situat...

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