Our bodies are weird. And terrifying. And beautiful. And frustrating. It's not something that's usually considered typical conversation in everyday social situations, but why shouldn't it be? We're all grappling with the simultaneous strangeness and beauties of our bodies regularly. Why should we just cram all those thoughts beneath the surface?

When you think of body horror, David Cronenberg likely pops into mind. The director's earlier horror films cornered the market on gruesome, psychologically twisted transformations and breakdowns of the human body, after all. But body horror existed long before, with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein an earlier example, and the sub-genre has thrived and evolved long since [...]

For many trans people, it's the physical changes wrought by time that make you aware of the disconnect you feel from your own body, whether it's the onset of puberty, or gendered markers of aging like hair loss.

by Billie Anderson, Staff Writer Horror is the only genre in which disabled people are regularly represented at all, and as a result, cannot be ignored as a possible avenue for reimagining disability despite its often stereotypical and harmful representations.

When talk turns to the career of David Cronenberg, it turns almost immediately to body horror. The Canadian director, whose career has been so long and varied that it has involved a number of original scripts and several literary adaptations..

Director Mitchell Lichtenstein's , released in 2007, is an independent comedy-horror film about female oppression, bodily difference, and sexual agency. In Teeth, protagonist Dawn O'Keefe (played by Jess Weixler) is sexually assaulted and discovers she has a genital mutation - a toothed vagina.

Like its heroine, Mitchell Lichtenstein's indie horror-comedy Teeth is more than it appears at first glance. The poster shows a woman almost completely submerged in an opaque bubble bath and warns that the film is "the most alarming cautionary tale for men since Fatal Attraction ".

A version of this blog post was originally published on March 22, 2017 for Birth.Movies.Death. This revised version has been reprinted here with permission. At this very moment Matt Gaetz, a Florida Congressman, is being investigated for having sex with a 17-year-old girl and possible sex trafficking.

Some might define horror films by the amount of blood and guts shown. Or it might be how many times jump scares make viewers cover their faces in fear. Or watching "some stupid killer stalking some big-breasted girl who can't act who's always running up the stairs when she should be running out the front door," as Sidney Prescott complained about in Wes Craven's 1996 film Scream.

With the recent release of the film on Hulu, most of its attention has understandably gone down two avenues. One is its message about the fears women face in today's dating world. The other is that shocking twist that our heroine's new boyfriend is a cannibal who kidnaps women and sells their flesh.

is a horror-comedy for the online dating age, though its ending may take some explaining. Sebastian Stan stars as Steve, the seemingly charming new boyfriend of Noa, a chronically single young woman played by Daisy Edgar-Jones. Packed with sex, lies, and cannibalism, Fresh is a horror movie masquerading as a rom-com about the horrors of dating as a young woman in today's world.

As of roughly two weeks ago, I could have stated with some authority, as a life-long horror movie fan, that I'd seen just about every possible way a woman could be sliced and diced. But then Hulu's buzzy new body-horror film "Fresh" added to my, well, plate by introducing something even I had never seen before.

Out of all the films I've seen this year so far, Kindred has surprised me the most. It has some of the most assured direction I've witnessed this year, made all the more impressive by the fact that it's the feature debut of its co-writer/director, Joe Marcantonio.

I'm always relieved, if not excited, to encounter a horror film that isn't about anything supernatural. A lot of today's audiences wouldn't even consider that a horror film; if it doesn't goose you with effects or try for some version of the uncanny, it's just a drama.

Now that we finally find ourselves at the start of a new year, I want to take this opportunity to shine a light on some of the releases that might have gone under the radar in 2020. While 2020 was an...

"I think she was looking for order in a life she felt increasingly powerless in." Writer-director Carlo Mirabella-Davis speaking about his grandmother who, in the 1950s, was confined to a mental institution and subjected to electroshock therapy, insulin shock therapy, and a non-consensual lobotomy for being an "obsessive hand washer".

Suspiria. 2018. Directed by Luca Guadagnino. Screenplay by David Kajganich, based on characters created by Dario Argento & Daria Nicolodi. Starring Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Doris Hick, Malgorzata Bela, Chloë Grace Moretz, Angela Winkler, Vanda Capriolo, Alek Wek, Jessica Batut, Elena Fokina, Mia Goth, Clémentine Houdart, Ingrid Caven, Sylvie Testud, & Fabrizia Sacchi.

By Madison Brek · Published on November 20th, 2018 Warning: Spoilers for Suspiria (2018) Luca Gudagnino's , a remake of Dario Argento's 1977 horror classic, is, among many things, a welcome entry into the body horror subgenre. Plenty of the new film's scenes are guaranteed to rival even your favorite (or least favorite?)

"You won't get the baby. And you won't get me." - Cecilia Kass, The Invisible Man (2020) Content Warning: This piece discusses abuse, bodily autonomy, sexual assault, and abortion. Horror is a genre that inherently deals with themes of bodily autonomy-even if the theme of bodily autonomy is purely tangential.

In a smart update from the Invisible Man of H.G. Wells' novel, Leigh Whannell's reimagining is a harrowing story of domestic abuse. It follows a woman named Cecilia Kass (Elisabeth Moss) as she attempts to escape Adrian Griffin (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), her abusive and manipulative boyfriend after he acquires the ability to become invisible.