10 Body Horror Movies That Went Too Far

10. The Brood

For full disclosure, it's pretty difficult to not just give in and dedicate this entire list to the movies of David Cronenberg.

Few, if any, have ever done body horror as well as Cronenberg, with the Canadian filmmaker having a masterful eye for what is likely to make an audience wince. And if you're looking for an exemplary, extreme body horror from this legend of the game, look no further than 1979's The Brood.

Written in the aftermath of the director's own divorce, this picture centres on Samantha Eggar's Nola as she goes through a divorce while battling her own mental health problems - all as a slew of mysterious murders take place across the city.

In typical Cronenberg fashion, The Brood reveals how a group of dwarf children have been responsible for these murders, and that Nola had given birth to said children via an external womb that was driven by shock treatment and her own memories of abuse and abandonment from her childhood.

When the big reveal of all of this comes, with Nola going as far as to lick clean one of her newborns, it was David Cronenberg at his absolute David Cronenberg best.