10 Most Messed Up Horror Movie Monsters

What body horror does best is, instead of letting us scare ourselves with our imagination, it fully confronts us with slime, flesh, vile appendages and general anatomical perversion.

So, over to the master of body horror with David Cronenberd’s The Fly and a creature that is as heartbreaking as it is disgusting.

There is a slow tragedy to Seth Brundle’s (Jeff Goldblum) metamorphosis into a half-man-half-fly, as his body and mind gradually begin to change. Despite the obvious body horror elements, more disturbing is the way Brundle’s behaviour becomes manic and violent. Brundle’s newfound hyper-virility is another squeamish element as, like with most body horror, Cronenberg turns the sexual act into something perverse and horrifying.

All of this culminates with the eruptive birth of the Brundlefly monster from Seth’s human skin-shell. Slow, human decay is violently replaced by monstrous horror. How can Veronica (Geena Davis) mourn the loss of Seth when she is instantly confronted by a creature so nightmarish and repulsive?

Veronica must endure one final heartbreak as the monster, now fused with the teleporter itself, begs for her to kill it. So sad. And so gross.