10 Body Horror Movies That Went Too Far

Frank Henenlotter is a cult favourite filmmaker with a major penchant for body horror. Henenlotter himself may have described his style as exploitation cinema rather than horror, but it's hard to argue against the body horror tag when your filmography includes the likes of Brain Damage, Frankenhooker and the twisted madness of the Basket Case trilogy.

To single out the New Yorker's 1988 Brain Damage, it's a picture based around a brain-consuming parasite that charms its hosts into bringing them fresh victims - all by corrupting those potential victims with a mind-altering hallucinogenic drug.

In terms of the most haunting scene of this Henenlotter offering, it has to be seeing Rick Heart's Brian trying to pull his own brain out of his head through his ear - with poor Brian yanking on his grey matter like it was a pulley rope.

Frankenhooker still stands up as Frank Henenlotter's finest hour, yet Brain Damage similarly holds up as the director's most demented and gruesome film to date. Then again, the Basket Case trilogy does have some utterly bizarre shenanigans at play, too...