Body horror draws its scares from the body turning against its owner, whether through disease, parasites, surgery or a change no doctor can explain. Cronenberg called it "the new flesh." That phrase still holds. Curated body horror covers transformation, mutation, and the deeply unsettling idea that the body you're living in isn't entirely yours. These films get under the skin, sometimes literally.
Cameron Vale has spent his life hearing everyone else's thoughts and it's driven him to the street. A shadowy corporation wants to weaponize what's wrong with him, and someone else's head is about to pay the price for the demonstration.
A parasite escapes containment inside a luxury apartment building and spreads from resident to resident, stripping away every social inhibition it finds.
Gary's Carpet Value: open the shop, flip the sign, keep things clean. People trust Gary, but there's been talk about what's really woven into those carpets.
Dr. Rose Cotter encounters a patient mid-psychotic episode involving a smiling figure and after the patient's suicide, the same experience transfers to her.
Days before her comeback world tour, pop star Skye Riley witnesses a shocking death, and the smiling curse moves on to her. Now she can't tell what's real in front of a crowd that never stops watching.
A medical simulation horror game where you perform operations on sedated patients to fix their defects and make them HAPPY. The imperfect don't stay that way for long.
Bill Whitney is a popular, wealthy Beverly Hills teenager who grows more uneasy about his family by the day. The more he looks, the more wrong things get.
A Pittsburgh woman with no religious faith suffers the wounds of the crucifixion. A Vatican investigator arrives to find out why.
A family driving through rural Texas encounters Leatherface on a remote property.
Maggie Gyllenhaal directs The Bride with an interest in the female monster's own experience of being created, giving the story a perspective neither Shelley's novel nor the 1935 film fully occupied.
Dr. Alan Feinstone has built a precise, controlled life and one morning's discovery destabilizes all of it, sending him to see rot and contamination everywhere, including in his patients.
A handful of outsiders at Herrington High start comparing notes on their teachers' behavior and arrive at an explanation that sounds impossible and turns out to be accurate.
Seth Brundle has built a working teleporter and decides to test it on himself. The machine doesn't account for a passenger.
Seth Brundle's son was born already changing, raised inside a Bartok Industries lab that has very specific plans for what he's becoming.
A German surgeon connects several people surgically into a continuous human chain. The film's concept is its primary content.
Martin has watched the original Human Centipede so many times he's decided to build his own. He's not a surgeon, and that's very much the point.
Dr. Angelo turns a mentally disabled gardener into his test subject for a virtual reality intelligence experiment. Jobe gets smarter than intended, and a lot less interested in staying inside the simulation.
Osgood Perkins adapts Stephen King's The Monkey with the dark comedy register fully engaged. Brothers discover a childhood toy with a deadly connection.
Soldier of fortune Nick Morton accidentally frees Ahmanet, an ancient Egyptian princess sealed in a tomb in Iraq. She has plans for him, and Dr. Henry Jekyll's monster-hunting society has plans for them both.
Twelve-year-old Ben just wants to fit in at a boys' water polo camp, but the popular kids have a cruel game: one quiet camper with a skin rash is said to carry a contagious plague.
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