10 More Body Horror Fates Worse Than Death
6. The Beast Within - Being Sexually Assaulted By A Monster
From director Philippe Mora, 1982's The Beast Within isn't a particularly great movie, yet, like many body horrors, it is a picture that offers up some pretty impressive, gnarly special effects work.
To this day, the transformation sequences of the film still stand up pretty darn well, with said transformations seeing the titular beast literally appear from within poor Michael MacCleary (Paul Clemens) and force him to carry out murder and cannibalism.
Arguably the worst fate of this entire movie, though, is that of Bibi Besch's Caroline MacCleary, the mother of Michael.
As The Beast Within opens, Caroline and her husband Eli break down in the middle of nowhere. While Eli goes to seek help, a twisted creature starts to stalk Caroline.
Not content with 'merely' murdering her, this beast attacks Caroline, pulls open her shirt, then rapes her. It's all as disturbing as it sounds, and this is made all the more troubling when Besch's character gives birth nine months later to the product of this sexual assault.
For Caroline, not only did she have to undergo such a horrific ordeal, she then had to watch her son later pick up where his biological father left off - as Michael becomes his own beastly being 16 years later.