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Body horror television programs


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    • Biological horror television programs

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    • found: Work cat.: Bpdy bags, ©1993(Originally produced as a made-for-TV film in 1993; contents: The gas station / director, John Carpenter -- Hair / director, John Carpenter -- The eye / director, Tobe Hooper; summary: A horror film composed of three tales, the first about a serial killer, the second about a hair transplant that goes wrong and the third about a baseball player)
    • found: Most popular body horror movies and TV shows, via IMDb website, May 8, 2020(Body Bags (1993 TV Movie); Three short stories in the horror genre: the first about a serial killer, the second about a hair transplant gone wrong, and the third about a baseball player)
    • 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)
    • found: Body horror, via TV tropes website, May 6, 2020(any form of horror or squickiness involving body parts, parasitism, disfigurement, mutation, or unsettling bodily configuration, not induced by immediate violence)
    • 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)

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    • 2020-05-08: new
    • 2020-07-15: revised

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