Body horror finds fear in the mirror: flesh changing, betraying, becoming other. This tag collects reviews of body horror films and essays on why transformation of the self remains the genre’s deepest nerve.
2000sSeptember 10, 2026
District 9 (2009) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A first-time director shot an alien occupation film in a real Soweto township for thirty million dollars, cast his friend who had never acted, and got a Best…
1990sJune 6, 2026
Guillermo del Toro reroutes the vampire myth through a clockwork device in his startling 1993 debut. The fascination with antique machinery.
2000sJune 6, 2026
Religious tragedy meets erotic horror, reviewed at Master of Worlds. Few directors would even attempt this combination.
2000sJune 6, 2026
The Spierig brothers imagined a near future where vampirism has won. It is a genuinely smart science-fiction idea, and for its first hour the film is a sharp dystopian satire.
1990sMay 19, 2026
Takashi Miike directs the story of a widower staging fake auditions to find a new wife, with consequences he could not anticipate. Audition is Takashi Miike's 1999 Japanese horror-thriller film depicting a Tokyo widower who stages fake film auditions to…
1980sMay 19, 2026
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…
1980sMay 19, 2026
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…
2000s
1970s
2000sMay 17, 2026
Aronofsky's 2000 addiction film. Four people destroyed in parallel tracks.
Body HorrorMay 16, 2026
Clive Barker source material. Doug Bradley's Pinhead became canonical horror cinema material.
2010sMay 16, 2026
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.
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