Leviathan (1989) Review
Leviathan (1989) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. An underwater Alien with a good cast and a wrecked Soviet ship. One of three deep-sea monster films released in 1989, and the middle one.
Genre: Body Horror
Films where the terror comes from within: transformation, infection, and flesh that stops obeying. Body horror reviews for viewers who can handle what the mirror shows.
Body HorrorThe Fly (1986)
David Cronenberg's body horror about a scientist whose teleportation experiment merges his DNA with a housefly. The Fly is David Cronenberg's 1986 American body-horror film, a substantial remake of the 1958 Kurt Neumann original, depicting a scientist whose teleportation experiment…
Body HorrorRe-Animator (1985)
Lovecraft's 'Herbert West, Re-Animator' serial about a Miskatonic University medical student who develops a serum that revives the recently deceased with violent and unpredictable results. Re-Animator is one of the most successful Lovecraft adaptations ever produced and one of the…
ActionUpgrade (2018)
Upgrade is the rare science fiction film that does substantial work on a small budget and delivers a complete vision without studio compromise. Leigh Whannell wrote and directed.
Body HorrorThe Thing (1982) Review
The Thing earns its 9.5 primarily through Rob Bottin's practical effects work, which remains the gold standard for creature design in horror cinema more than forty years later. Carpenter built something rare: a film where the monster is original, the…
Body HorroreXistenZ (1999) Review
eXistenZ is Cronenberg doing what Cronenberg does: making the body the site of horror and the technology that interfaces with it the vector of corruption. The bio-ports, the organic game consoles connecting directly to the spine, the game-meat assembled from…