Is there body horror?
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Does some sort of experimentation, mutations, or other event happen that warps the body (ex: Dr. Who’s “Of Love and Monsters, Parayte (manga), Akira (anime)).
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TV Show • 2023 Report
Yes
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cetacn
S1
E1
episode two: the infected exhibit hair loss, discoloured skin, lesions, and significant fungal growth encompassing their face and shoulders in particular. in the late stages of infection, the face has become mutilated due to the fungus, and the teeth are rotted.
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
122
No
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Bricoleur
There's an entire planet grown from flesh that gets cut, burned, and squashed in various gross ways. CG animals are cut open and have artificial limbs and other additions attached to their bodies.
Movie Report
Yes
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Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
70
No
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kawara
You see skin flaking off in a dramatic and disturbing fashion.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
69
No
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Cryptid_Crow
Minimal, but it's there.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
65
No
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16
There’s nothing that actually fits body horror. There are bodily injuries and harm but not actual body horror
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
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2
If you stretch the definition of “body horror” a bit, one character who is hospitalized after a possession goes horribly wrong slowly looks sicker and worse and his skin is more mottled as the movie continues. One eye is puffed shut.
But compared to classic body horror movies such as The Fly (1986), Rabid, Contracted, Spring, Cabin Fever, Videodrome, Scanners and Afflicted, this film doesn’t really fit the definition of a “body horror” sub-genre. There a several violent and gruesome moments, though, and the audience in the theater I was in yelled “HOAH!” at a few shots, but it’s more gore than traditional body horror.
A character cracks his head on a porcelain side of a tub and hard floor, then licks up his own blood from the floor while laughing. But again, that’s more violence and gore than actual body horror.
But compared to classic body horror movies such as The Fly (1986), Rabid, Contracted, Spring, Cabin Fever, Videodrome, Scanners and Afflicted, this film doesn’t really fit the definition of a “body horror” sub-genre. There a several violent and gruesome moments, though, and the audience in the theater I was in yelled “HOAH!” at a few shots, but it’s more gore than traditional body horror.
A character cracks his head on a porcelain side of a tub and hard floor, then licks up his own blood from the floor while laughing. But again, that’s more violence and gore than actual body horror.
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
64
No
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TheGoodSandy
In the tradition of Evil Dead, there is significant body horror.
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
60
No
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howdywrites
If this is a big no for you, I would skip this movie. Lots of gore too
Movie • 2019 Report
Yes
57
No
2
2
KamiSteele
This is an extremely gory movie. It's hard to pinpoint what specifically, but it includes an elderly couple jumping to their deaths and one having to be euthanized with a mallet, someone's skin being used as a mask ala Leatherface, and a depiction of blood eagle torture.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
57
No
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saste12
Holy crap yes.
Movie • 2018 Report
Yes
48
No
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KamiSteele
There is a shot of a child's rotting decapitated head sitting in the middle of the road, covered in swarming ants. We also see a rotting corpse hidden in an attic. One character decapitates themselves using a piano wire. A mummified severed head is used as part of a statue.
TV Show • 2011 Report
Yes
40
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21
TV Show • 1993 Report
Yes
39
No
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0
Goatsipstea
S2
E2
The entire episode is heavily centered around body horror- not for the faint of heart
TV Show • 2021 Report
Yes
37
No
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megdoesmost
S2
E2
[SPOILER] cut off ear shown throughout the episode and alluded to being eaten at the end of the ep
Movie Report
Yes
35
No
3
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itsmeemomo
Beau discovers a gigantic penis monster in his attic, complete with tendrils and a mouth.
Movie Report
Yes
35
No
3
1
Seenit
Kaylee (sister, child) has no mouth or eyes, Kevin (brother, child) stand himself in the eye and is murdered just barely off screen. A considerable amount of blood is shown.
Video Game • 2017 Report
Yes
34
No
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FawnOverBrawn
The eyes sometimes go realistic, Natsuki glitches into death. It's mildly disturbing
TV Show • 2005 Report
Yes
32
No
24
1
Viomma
S4
E4
**Spoiler warning for planet of the Ood** we watch a human become an Ood and its nasty. To skip, about 40 minutes in when The Doctor says "Oh they've been preparing you for a long time" to Halpen skip ahead by about one minute.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
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2
Mutations seen in mother, aberrant sex adjacent acts with nursing
TV Show • 2020 Report
Yes
30
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3
RomanLanslide
Emperor Belos, the man antagonist of the series, has a condition that causes him to turn into what is essentially a gooey rotting corpse. It's not bloody or super gory on accounts of the art style, but it's still pretty horrifying and not fun to look at.
TV Show • 2022 Report
Yes
29
No
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Midgardmartyr
A humanoid monster antagonist has very exaggerated and frightening features
TV Show • 2019 Report
Yes
28
No
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3
S2
E2
In episode 3 there are multiple mutilated bodies and corpses, basically the whole episode is about that
TV Show • 2010 Report
Yes
28
No
2
0
Pantalones
Many of the walkers demonstrate body horror. They are in various states of decay, some have parts of their bodies missing, some of them have rotted to the point they are almost fused with the earth. I'd also say the way Negan kills a certain character is so brutal and graphic it could count as body horror.
TV Show • 2008 Report
Yes
28
No
2
2
Pantalones
A character suffers grotesque facial injuries in an explosion. To a lesser degree, extreme meth use causes severe bodily damage to a few characters. They are shown as skinny, with "meth mouth" and sores from picking their skin.
Movie • 2021 Report
Yes
28
No
3
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Abby789101112
Somebody’s bones break. Two of the children hide in a cave and are holding matches to see. You see a character screaming on the ground and when the match goes on you see her arms and legs all mangled. (No blood in this scene)
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
27
No
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Veritasrose
There is gore and a pretty a few pretty intense death scenes, but all the bodies stay within the realm of reality. There is a disfigured character but it is a disability based on reality. Not body horror.
TV Show • 2013 Report
Yes
27
No
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Pantalones
Several episodes feature grotesque abuses of the human body. Many of them are on corpses but not all. A woman's body is cut into segments. Someone is impaled on antlers. Human bodies are turned into beehives. A cannibal makes fancy food out of people.
TV Show • 2016 Report
Yes
27
No
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Fenris
S4
E4
If Body Horror is triggering for you, Season 4 might be very difficult to watch safely or even watch at all
Movie • 2016 Report
Yes
26
No
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