Body Horror

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Alien

A haunted house film in space, and the crew are contractors arguing about bonuses.

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Alien: Romulus

Fede Alvarez taking the franchise back to basics: young colonists, a derelict station, and one very bad idea.

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Basket Case

A young man carries his surgically-separated deformed twin in a wicker basket, and they are taking revenge.

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Birth/Rebirth

A morgue technician and a grieving mother reinventing Frankenstein without any of the theatrics.

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Bug

William Friedkin directing a two-hander in a motel room about shared delusion, and it is not what the trailer sold.

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Cam

A camgirl finds an identical copy of herself has taken over her account and locked her out.

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Contamination

An Alien knock-off with exploding chests and a Goblin score doing heavy lifting throughout.

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Cronos

Del Toro's first film, and the vampire is a grandfather trying to stay with his granddaughter.

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Dead Ringers

Jeremy Irons plays twin gynaecologists who share everything, and Cronenberg's coldest, saddest film.

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Dumplings

An ageing actress buys rejuvenating dumplings from a woman in a housing estate. You know what is in them.

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Eraserhead

Five years of weekend shooting, and it is about being a father and being terrified of it.

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Event Horizon

A haunted house film in space, hated on release, and the studio destroyed roughly thirty minutes of it.

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Eyes Without a Face

A surgeon steals faces for his disfigured daughter. Filmed with a tenderness that makes it far worse.

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Flesh for Frankenstein

Shot in 3D with Udo Kier and a spleen. Warhol's name on it, Paul Morrissey's film.

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Frankenstein

Karloff in Jack Pierce's makeup, and the flat head is a copyrighted design rather than anything from the novel.

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Freaks

Tod Browning cast real sideshow performers, MGM cut a third of it, and it ended his career.

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From Beyond

Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs reunite after Re-Animator for a Lovecraft story about a machine that reveals what is always there.

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Get Out

Won the screenplay Oscar, which horror never does. The sunken place is the best new image in the genre this century.

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Hatching

A Finnish girl raises a monster from an egg, and it is about a mother's Instagram-perfect lie.

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Hellraiser

Clive Barker adapting his own novella, and the Cenobites are on screen for about eight minutes.

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Huesera: The Bone Woman

Mexican, and the best pregnancy horror since Rosemary's Baby. The joint-cracking sound design is the thing.

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Infinity Pool

Brandon Cronenberg again. Wealthy tourists, a legal loophole and Mia Goth having a wonderful time.

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Inside

The most extreme film on this site. A pregnant woman, her house, and a woman with scissors.

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Malignant

James Wan spending studio money on something deranged. The third act is one of the great swerves.

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Matango

Toho's mushroom people, made by the Godzilla team, and it is far bleaker than its reputation.

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May

A lonely young woman decides that if she cannot find a whole person to love, she will assemble one.

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Men

Alex Garland being about as subtle as a church door. The final sequence is remarkable regardless.

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Night of the Bloody Apes

A luchadora, a heart transplant from a gorilla, and real open-heart surgery footage spliced in.

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Overlord

Nazi zombies with a real budget and a unusually good first act. Better than the premise deserves.

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Possession

A divorce film with a tentacle in it. Adjani's U-Bahn scene is the most extreme acting on this site.

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Possessor

Brandon Cronenberg working the family seam without embarrassment. The practical effects are appalling in the right way.

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Possum

A disgraced puppeteer returns to his childhood home carrying a bag he cannot get rid of.

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Rabid

Cronenberg's second feature, with an experimental skin graft, a stinger in an armpit, and a plague across Montreal.

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Raw

A vegetarian vet student develops an appetite. Julia Ducournau's debut and a genuine coming-of-age film.

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Re-Animator

The funniest Lovecraft adaptation ever made, which is not what anybody expected.

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Scanners

Everybody remembers the head. The film underneath is about a pharmaceutical company and a custody dispute.

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Society

A Beverly Hills teenager suspects his family are not human. The last twenty minutes prove it, wetly.

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Spring

A love story that happens to involve an immortal woman whose body is not stable. Benson and Moorhead again.

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Suspiria

Not a remake so much as an argument with the original. Colder, longer, and about postwar German guilt.

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The Autopsy of Jane Doe

Two coroners, one body, one basement. A masterclass in escalating a single location.

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The Curse of Frankenstein

The film that made Hammer, made in colour, with blood that looks like blood.

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The Perfection

Swerves three times and mostly earns them. Best watched knowing nothing at all.

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The Skin I Live In

Almodóvar's only horror film, and it is a revenge story disguised as a mad-scientist melodrama.

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The Stuff

A white dessert oozing from the ground becomes a national craze, and it is eating the people who eat it.

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The Substance

Body horror about how the industry treats women over fifty, with Demi Moore doing the bravest work of her career.

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The Thing

Flopped, was called empty and disgusting, and is now the most imitated horror film of its decade.

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The Untamed

A Mexican film in which a creature from a crashed meteorite provides pleasure and death in equal measure.

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The Void

Practical effects made on Kickstarter money, doing an unembarrassed Carpenter impression.

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Titane

Won the Palme d'Or. A film about a woman, a car and a grieving fireman, and it is not a comedy.

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Trouble Every Day

Claire Denis made a vampire film with no vampires, and it was booed at Cannes.

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Uzumaki

A town becomes obsessed with spirals. Junji Ito adapted before his manga had finished.

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Xtro

A British alien-abduction film so incoherent and disturbing it has never been fully explained, by anyone, including its director.