body horror

British  

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

Dave Franco and Alison Brie are married in real life, but in the body horror romance “Together,” they play an engaged couple named Tim and Millie who might be happier breaking up.

From Los Angeles Times

He also noted the body horror, especially in two “monstrous” birth sequences, providing an adequate scare, and there’s a “modicum of well-done fright effects.”

From Los Angeles Times

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