Horror comes in many forms, from monsters and ghosts to psychotic killers and crazy cults. But there`s nothing quite like body horror to separate the hardcore fright fan from the more casual viewer. The phrase `body horror` was first coined in the British academic journal Screen in 1986, and it loosely describes movies where the terror comes from the human body itself, whether it`s melting, mutating, or perhaps hosting some terrifying parasite.1986 was also the year that David Cronenberg`s classic The Fly brought the sub-genre to a wide mainstream audience, and since then many of most disturbing moments in cinema have been focused on flesh-based shocks. So here`s some of the gloopiest, goriest, and most gruesome body horror scenes of all time.... 12. Brain Damage (1988)Frank Henenlotter directed the 1982 classic Basket Case, the wonderfully sleazy tale of a young man who keeps his horrifically misshapen brother in a basket. But it was his second movie, Brain Damage, that really delivered the body horror goods. The movie is a drug analogy, in which an evil leech-like brain-eating parasite called Aylmer forces his hosts to bring him victims by getting them hooked on a hallucinogenic drug that he secretes directly into their brains. The highlight is an amazingly gruesome scene in which our hero Brian hallucinates that he is slowly pulling his entire brain out through his ear. 11. From Beyond (1986)Director Stuart Gordon followed his classic 1985 zombie comedy Re-Animator with the darker, weirder From Beyond. Based once more on a story by HP Lovecraft, it focuses on two rival scientists who are attempting to see beyond our normal reality using a machine known as the Resonator. Of course, the machine does more than that, and it ends up physically changing the doctors, providing plenty of opportunity for gloopy body horror. In particular, the villainous Dr. Pretorius goes through some wonderfully strange transformations, including the one pictured above. 1 ...
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