body horror

noun

1. a horror film genre in which the main feature is the graphically depicted destruction or degeneration of a human body or bodies

Example Sentences

The supernatural body horror film, written and directed by Australian Michael Shanks, follows a couple who move to the countryside and find themselves encountering a mysterious force that impacts their bodies, lives and relationship.

From BBC

“Alien: Earth” is darker — or, I should say, more relentlessly dark — than either of those series, and a sensitive viewer might want to consider the wear and tear eight hours of body horror and rarely relieved tension might have on a human.

From Los Angeles Times

There’s an animalism to “Together” that is so forgiving and realistic that, occasionally, the film feels genuinely shocking in a way a body horror hasn’t in some time — and that’s saying something coming less than a year after “The Substance.”

From Salon

A fusion of body horror and couples therapy, it centers on a sunken cave with a pool of water that, when sipped, makes cells thirst to meld with the nearest mammal.

From Los Angeles Times

So this idea about humanity and the terrible things that we do to each other, it really opened my mind as to the types of horror that would populate the show — not just body horror or creature horror, but also the moral horror of what people do.”

From Salon