10 Hidden Gem Body Horror Movies

E. Elias Merhige's Begotten sets its stall out early by having a mysterious robed figure - referred to in the film's credits as God Killing Himself - take a razor and disembowel himself.

Having removed some of his own organs, this now-dead person has a strange run in with a character dubbed Mother Earth. Despite the lack of life in "God", Mother Earth manages to, err, arouse him and use his sperm to impregnate herself.

Yep, there are certain sentences your writer here never expected to be writing when making that first coffee of the day this morning. Still, it's tough to do such a list and not include Begotten for its sheer grim insanity.

With Mother Earth pregnant, she gives birth to the twisted, convulsing Son of Earth before then abandoning her offspring.

To think, all of this is merely the setup work for Begotten, with the meat of the picture following Son of Earth as he throws up pieces of organs, gets burned alive, is then resurrected, has to witness the rape and murder of his mother, and is then once again killed.

Begotten is certainly something.