Hellraiser Franchise (1987-1996)
Clive Barker source material. Doug Bradley's Pinhead became canonical horror cinema material.
Tag: Body Horror (Page 2)
2010sUpgrade (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.
American DecayRoboCop (1987, 1990, 1993, 2014)
RoboCop is the satirical action franchise that established the cybernetic-cop subgenre and one of the most accomplished critiques of late-1980s corporate. Paul Verhoeven directed the 1987 original.
1980sRoboCop (1987) Review
RoboCop is a better film than its premise suggests and a more subversive one than its marketing implied. Paul Verhoeven made a corporate satire inside a violent action film, and the two registers enhance each other instead of competing.
1990sStar Trek: First Contact (1996) Review
First Contact is the best Star Trek film after Wrath of Khan, and that's a significant statement given how many entries the franchise has produced. What separates it from the rest is a structural decision that most franchise filmmaking refuses…
1980sThe 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…
1970sAlien (1979) Review
Experiencing it blind, in a dark theater, with an audience that had no idea what was coming, that was specific and unrepeatable. The 8 reflects both what the film achieved and what watching it now is like, which are different…
1990seXistenZ (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…
Body HorrorCrimson Hunger
A 237-year-old vampire who hasn't fed in nine days walks into a Paris bar and meets a hematologist who knows what she is, offers his blood, and asks to study her in return.