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22 films tagged body horror

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  • 2018 · Science fiction

    A biologist joins an all-woman expedition into a stretch of coastline sealed off behind a shimmering wall, where the plants and animals have gone strange. It moves slowly and gets stranger the further in they walk.

    • Clearly heavy
    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Annihilation

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2025 · Horror

    Cinderella from the stepsister's side: a mother with no money puts her eldest through crude, painful surgery to make her fit to win the prince at the ball. The body horror is close up and does not look away.

    • Strongly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Ugly Stepsister

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2025 · Horror

    A man takes his wife and daughter to the remote Oregon house he grew up in, and something in the woods attacks him on the way. He starts to change, and most of the film is the three of them shut in that house.

    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Wolf Man

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • The Home

    Little-known

    2025 · Horror

    A graffiti artist works off a vandalism charge as caretaker of a retirement home, and is told to stay off the fourth floor. The residents start behaving strangely, and he goes up anyway.

    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Home

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2026 · Horror

    Sent to live with his grandfather Geppetto after his parents die, a fourteen-year-old is given a wooden friend built never to leave him. The puppet decides to rid the world of bad things, and takes that literally.

    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Pinocchio: Unstrung

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Nightborn

    Little-known

    2026 · Horror

    A couple do up a derelict house in the Finnish forest to raise a family in, and the baby that arrives is silent, covered in dark hair and hurts to feed. Everyone but the mother says he is fine.

    • Strongly intimate
    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Nightborn

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2012 · Science fiction

    Scientists follow a set of matching cave paintings to a distant moon, on a ship paid for by a dying billionaire who wants to meet whoever left them. Big empty landscapes first, then a lot of running.

    • Strongly fantastic
    • Clearly epic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Prometheus

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Raw

    Little-known

    2016 · Horror

    A lifelong vegetarian starts at the veterinary school where her older sister is already a student, and hazing week makes her eat raw meat. Bloody, funny in places, and hard to watch in others.

    • Strongly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Raw

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 1979 · Horror

    The crew of a commercial towing ship is woken early to investigate a signal from a nearby moon, and brings something back aboard. Long stretches of corridor and waiting.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Strongly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Alien

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2016 · Horror

    A father and son who run a small-town morgue take in an unidentified body late at night and start the autopsy, and the basement gets stranger with every step. Two men, one building, most of one night.

    • Strongly intimate
    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Autopsy of Jane Doe

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2011 · Thriller

    A plastic surgeon works alone at his country estate on a new kind of skin, watching the woman he keeps locked upstairs on a screen. Cold and controlled, and it jumps back in time about halfway.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Skin I Live In

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2024 · Horror

    A fitness-show host dropped by television on her fiftieth birthday takes a black-market drug that promises a younger version of herself. It gets very graphic, and the last stretch does not hold back.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Substance

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2021 · Horror

    A woman with a metal plate in her skull from a childhood car crash dances at motor shows, then goes on the run under someone else's name. Extremely violent and strange, and it explains very little.

    • Strongly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Titane

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2013 · Horror

    A woman drives a van around Glasgow picking up men, and she is not from here. Very slow, almost no dialogue, and long stretches of black space and noise.

    • Strongly slow
    • Strongly heavy
    • Clearly fantastic
    • Clearly complicated

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Under the Skin

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 1999 · Horror

    A widower's friend helps him hold a fake film audition to find a new wife, and he picks a quiet former dancer. It plays as a gentle romance for a long time.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Audition

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2010 · Thriller

    A ballerina gets the lead in Swan Lake and has to find a wildness in herself that her mother and her training removed. It stays very close to her as the pressure builds.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Strongly character-driven
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Black Swan

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2008 · Horror

    A woman who escaped a childhood of captivity goes to settle it twenty years later, with her only friend helping. It goes to extremes and then changes shape entirely.

    • Strongly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Martyrs

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Possessor

    Little-known

    2020 · Science fiction

    An assassin does her work by piloting other people's bodies, and the latest job will not let her back out. Very bloody, and the identity slips both ways.

    • Strongly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Possessor

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 1986 · Horror

    A scientist who has built a working teleportation booth tests it on himself with a fly in the chamber. Mostly two people in a loft, and it gets very physical.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Clearly fantastic
    • Clearly intimate
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Fly

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 1982 · Horror

    An Antarctic research team takes in a dog from the Norwegian camp, and then nobody can be sure who is still themselves. Cold, paranoid, and the effects are all practical.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Thing

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2025 · Horror

    A couple move to the countryside to save a relationship neither of them will end, and something in a cave under the woods obliges. Body horror as a break-up film.

    • Clearly intimate
    • Clearly heavy
    • Clearly fantastic
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Together

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 1983 · Horror

    The head of a small cable channel goes looking for the source of a pirate signal showing torture, and starts hallucinating. Very physical effects, and reality gives way.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Clearly complicated
    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Videodrome

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.