All articles tagged with #body horror
At Toronto, Jonathan Schey’s debut Everybody Wants to F— Me swings from rom‑com charm to body-horror farce as Taron Egerton’s smooth London playboy finds his one-night-stand routine unraveling into a supernatural, gender-war satire; the film is stylish, sharp, and entertaining, powered by Egerton’s canny performance, though its provocative politics can feel shoehorned and its leap into darker territory may divide audiences.
DC Studios released the first Clayface teaser for a Batman-centric body-horror film, showing Matt Hagen (Tom Rhys Harries) in a hospital bed before morphing into a clay-like, eyes/nose/mouth-free form in gruesome, rapid transformations. Naomi Ackie co-stars; the project is directed by James Watkins, with a screenplay by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini, and produced by Matt Reeves alongside James Gunn and Peter Safran. Originally dated for early September, the film now targets October 23, 2026, following a CinemaCon reveal, continuing DC Studios’ lineup of Batman-related projects.
The Hollywood Reporter previews a Clayface teaser for DC Studios’ R-rated body-horror origin story in the DC Universe, with Tom Rhys Harries as a disfigured actor transformed into clay by Naomi Ackie. Directed by James Watkins from a script by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini, the film aims for a grounded, psychological horror tone and is slated for an Oct. 23 release, following DC’s Supergirl (June 26) in Gunn and Safran’s second wave of projects.
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is more an exorcism-infused horror than a traditional mummy epic, delivering a relentless 133 minutes of grotesque shocks at the expense of depth or emotional stakes. While Laia Costa and May Calamawy carve out intensity amid a plot about a demon inhabiting a kidnapped girl and a family torn apart, the script never probes its premise or characters meaningfully, favoring a constant barrage of gross-out set pieces over substantive storytelling. The result feels like a church-basement haunted house rather than a millennia-spanning saga, making it a gore-heavy experience that wears thin quickly for most viewers.
DC Studios unveiled a body-horror origin for Batman villain Clayface at CinemaCon, with Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen whose disfigurement and a chemical transformation turn him into a clay-bodied foe; the trailer hints at further mutations, including a faceless moment and a mace-like clay fist, and the movie, directed by James Watkins, arrives in theaters on Oct 23, 2026 as part of DC’s universe relaunch.
On its 30-year anniversary, the piece argues that Resident Evil fuses peril with an eroticized focus on the body, centering handsome leads like Leon Kennedy whose injuries, transformations, and death sequences turn danger into a kinetic, fetishized experience. Through RE4 and beyond, camera work and relentless hits emphasize vulnerability over pure machine-like action, while zombies symbolize degraded humanity. The series also leans on homoerotic subtext (e.g., Krauser) and male peril remains a throughline even as women appear; RE9 extends this gaze by letting players watch Leon through a Grace/third-person lens, keeping the body at the center of horror.
Australian-born writer-director Amy Wang's Slanted uses a cosmetic-clinic twist to turn people of color white, turning the dream of an all-American ideal into a nightmare that probes immigrant families, identity, and the pressure to belong; a satirical yet visceral body-horror coming-of-age story that won the 2025 SXSW narrative feature grand jury prize.
Ryan Murphy's The Beauty is a maximalist, gore-soaked TV ride that gleefully leans into over-the-top transformations and sharp performances. It dazzles with prosthetics and shocking twists, but its social commentary on beauty standards can feel heavy-handed. The first three episodes premiere Jan. 21 on FX and Hulu, with the series continuing to escalate in its wildest, most entertaining moments.
Ryan Murphy’s FX series The Beauty, adapted from a comic, fuses fashion-world spectacle with body-horror as a virus turns people into the most perfect version of themselves. Following a Paris runway incident, FBI agents investigate a shadowy corporation and a drug-driven epidemic that shifts identity and power. The 11-episode first season, now streaming with the first three episodes on Hulu/FX and the rest released weekly, sports a star-studded cast (Peters, Hall, Kutcher, Ramos, Pope, Hadid) and sharp visuals, but it’s uneven in pacing and criticizes beauty as capital with a race-related misstep noted by reviewers. Still, it remains an entertaining, largely stylish watch that invites debate about aesthetics, greed, and governance in a biotech age.
The article discusses the body horror elements in 'Welcome to Derry,' highlighting its focus on disturbing portrayals of women's bodies, pregnancy, and childbirth as sources of horror, intertwined with Stephen King's themes of body treachery and fear.
'The Cut' initially appears as a standard boxing film but shifts into a disturbing body horror story, focusing on a boxer's extreme weight loss efforts for a comeback, with a strong performance from Orlando Bloom but a weak screenplay that fails to develop its characters or story effectively.
Together, a horror film by Michael Shanks starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, cleverly redefines the overused 'it was all a dream' trope by integrating terrifying and meaningful dream sequences that enhance the narrative. The movie explores themes of trauma, mental illness, and the fear of commitment through visceral horror and effective visual storytelling, balancing dread with humor. It emphasizes clear signaling of dreams to avoid deception, making the nightmares impactful and integral to the story, ultimately delivering a fresh and unsettling take on horror clichés.
Alison Brie and Dave Franco discuss their horror film 'Together', their interest in body horror inspired by a Cronenberg deep dive during the pandemic, and their experience portraying a troubled couple, highlighting the creative process behind their project.
The article lists 21 Wikipedia pages related to body horror, covering topics like rare diseases, unethical experiments, and bizarre medical conditions, highlighting the dark and often disturbing aspects of medical history and science.
The horror game ILL, developed by Team Clout and published by Mundfish, has gained online attention for its realistic physics, visceral dismemberment, and body horror themes, but overall it seems to lack a compelling concept despite impressive visuals and gore. It was announced some time ago and has been in development hell, with mixed reactions to its gameplay and concept.