Body Horror and Cronenberg

Body Horror is a subgenre based on disturbing and grotesque mutilations, diseases, infections, and transformations or changes in the human body. The dreadful feeling does not come from within yet it avokes from the corruption of the human form.

The most prominent themes are mutation, body decay, technology, and loss of control. As the physical distortion begins, the character's soul starts to loosen and lose control gradually. Showing the fragility of human form, Body Horror movies generally disturb the audience by reminding them how vulnerable and fragile humans deeply are.

Tetsuo the Iron Man, The Fly, Videodrome, Audition, Titane, and Hellraiser are some of the greatest and well-known body horror movies, often ranking at the top of the lists of this genre.

Cronenberg as a director is known as the master of body horror. He skillfully blends psychological horror with physical decay along with using tools as identity, technology, human psyche, and machinery. In his movies, this physical decay is used as a metaphor for the corrupted psyche as this bodily corruption is the symbol of inside fears and anxieties of humans regarding themselves, their surroundings, technology and future.

Some of his signature works include Videodrome, Rabid, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Crash, Crimes of the Future and The Brood.

This picture above is from The Fly; a movie that explores the period of time after a teleportation experiment goes wrong. Great movie, you have to watch it, immediately.

This one above is the most normal picture from Videodrome. The lines between real and surreal blurs, a TV executive becomes entangled in media's body distortion. What a movie, what a movie!!!

As I leave you to watch these films; thank you for reading, have fun watching these films. See you next time!