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Body horror films


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    • Biological horror films
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    • found: Work cat.: Fly (Motion picture : 1986). The fly, ©2005(summary: Seth Brundle develops a system to transport objects in a matter of seconds, but when he tries it on himself, Seth's genes and molecules are accidentally fused with those of a fly. Seth's excitement over his new physical abilities turns into a nightmare as his insect half begins to take over)
    • found: Re-animator (Motion picture : 1985). H.P. Lovecraft's Re-animator, ©2007(summary: Herbert West has a very good head on his shoulders ... and another one in a dish on his desk!)
    • found: López, D. Films by genre, ©1993(under Horror films: Body Horror (Body-Horror Films); relies on the destruction of the body for shock effect. In this kind of horror, bodies or parts of the body explode, ooze, are crushed, or melt away on-screen. Otherwise, the body may be made to burst open so as to allow some supernatural form or an alien's offspring to shoot out or crawl nauseatingly into view, or the body may be subjected to some vile and gory surgical experiment. Examples: Carne per Frankenstein (1973); The Manitou (1977); The Evil Dead (1980); The Beast Within (1981); Re-Animator (1985); The Fly (1986); The Fly II (1989))
    • found: Wikipedia, May 6, 2020:Body horror (Body horror or biological horror is a subgenre of horror that intentionally showcases graphic or psychologically disturbing violations of the human body. These violations may manifest through aberrant sex, mutations, mutilation, zombification, gratuitous violence, disease, or unnatural movements of the body. Body horror was a description originally applied to an emerging subgenre of North American horror films; Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg is considered a principal originator of body horror through early films such as Shivers and Rabid, and his remake of The Fly. The body horror genre is widely represented throughout Japanese horror and within contemporary media, such as anime)
    • found: Sharf, Z. The 10 Best Body Horror Movies Ever Made, From "The Fly" to "Teeth", via IndieWire website, Oct 25, 2019, viewed May 6, 2020(Body horror movies might make up one of cinema's more disgusting film genres, but they've unquestionably given cinema some of its most wholly original masters. For instance, where would David Cronenberg and David Lynch be without their breakthrough body horror entries?; Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1978); Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989); Teeth (Mitchell Lichtenstein, 2007); Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983); Slither (James Gunn, 2008); The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986); Raw (Julia Ducournau, 2016); Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon, 1985); The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982); The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979))
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    • 2020-05-06: new
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