10 Best Body Horrors That Make You Squirm
These twisted tales will have you struggling to hold onto your lunch.
There is no genre quite like the horror genre. Complete with an extremely passionate fan base and some smart and creative filmmakers, the world of horror is one littered with so many subgenres and styles - and it's a world where some truly disturbing and twisted tales can be told.
One form of horror that has so many fans out there, is the body horror subgenre.
To pull a definition from the ether of the internet - aka Wikipedia - body horror is pegged as "a subgenre of horror that intentionally showcases graphic of psychologically disturbing violations of the human body".
Whether it's mutilations, mutations, disease, or even zombification, the notion of body horror is one that offers up some stomach-turning proposals for filmmakers. Some of those filmmakers may merely use the body horror subgenre to do some messed up sh*t that's designed solely to shock audiences, while other filmmakers can take a body horror idea and craft it into something special.
Here then, are ten body horror movies that are guaranteed to make even the most ardent of horror hounds squirm in their seats.
10. American Mary
Jen and Sylvia Soska have most recently tackled another body horror in the shape of last year's reimagining of David Cronenberg's Rabid. And while the Twisted Twins did a fine job in giving a classic of yesteryear a new lick of paint, many still view their finest achievement as being 2012's American Mary.
Katharine Isabelle's Mary Mason is a desperate medical student who becomes embroiled in the underhand world of body modification. Of course, Mary is nicely compensated in a financial sense for her work, yet this story sees more and more deplorable acts being put before our protagonist.
Rather than necessarily being the victim of body modification, American Mary's central character is the person solely responsible for some truly gnarly modifications. And you don't get the nickname of Bloody Mary for nothing.
Like such similar tales, things don't turn out well for Mary Mason, with her work coming back to haunt her in a way that sees her dying in her own operating room. But still, Mary had created and crafted some true works of art by the time all was said and done in American Mary.
Most striking about this movie, is the realisation that people like Mary Mason are out there in the real world, performing similar acts at a price for some nefarious sorts.