nothing is more horrifying than watching
human flesh be mutilated and damaged
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
body horror movies for this list we
focused on horror movies that offer
scares and chills derived from the
explicit damage and deterioration of the
human body
number ten Tetsuo the iron man I know
that a bizarre film that explores the
relationship between technology and our
physical selves Tetsuo the iron man is
unlike anything you’ve seen before the
titular character becomes infected with
a strange disease that spreads metal
parts all over his body
this occurs after he runs over a man who
shares this disfiguring sickness
eventually leading to a weird brawl
between the two metallic men slash
watching these two piles of scrap go at
it is a visual trainwreck the viewer
can’t help but look away as their senses
are assaulted by the interaction between
metal and flesh in the cyberpunk flick
which launched director Shinya tsukamoto
into cult territory yes you are a smoker
so Stan said i zero some extent us dead
we’re to no more than you guys dad oh
god number nine Naked Lunch Mar book
yeah the one you’ve been calling Naked
Lunch when you think a giant bug is
instructing you to kill your wife it’s
probably time to stop doing drugs your
life is not really your life she is an
agent of Interzone incorporated you must
kill her in Naked Lunch William an
exterminator begins hallucinating
because of the chemicals in the
insecticide he uses job is it to kill
bugs what ensues is a mess of surrealist
and grotesque scenes of exposed
centipede guts being harvested giant
insect monsters known as Mugwumps
talking and giving out orders and don’t
leave out any of the tasty details and
typewriters turning into creatures and
engaging in sexual relations with the
characters
just another film and director David
Cronenberg’s eccentric filmography I
thought you were finished with doing
weird stuff I thought I was too but I
guess I’m not number eight
altered states he’s the last guy in the
world I should be screwing around if
anything is flakey is open states of
consciousness edward Jessup a university
professor studying different states of
consciousness conducts experiments by
locking himself in an isolation tank
while taking hallucinogenic drugs he
obtained during an excursion in Mexico
the professor devolves into a primitive
neanderthal at first but the results
prove more horrifying when he transforms
into a shapeless mass of gooey matter
with blasphemous religious
hallucinations of a goat-headed 7i Jesus
on the cross in addition to the devolved
states of inhumanity altered states
packs a visual punch of grotesque
imagery
number seven Dead Ringers let me
introduce myself I’m one of the mantle
tones twins are creepy the twins did it
tentacle tweeting director David
Cronenberg ups the ante with twin
Gynaecologists who share women in Dead
Ringers if we didn’t share women you
still be a virgin specializing in female
fertility problems twins Elliott and
Beverly take us down a tragic spiral of
drug addiction when one of their
patients begins a relationship with
Beverly what follows is less of a gory
mess and more of a psychological body
horror with botched gynecological
procedures I’m afraid I’m not familiar
with these instruments doctor disturbing
surgical instruments and even graphic
biting of a scar original and
spine-chilling this film will make your
skin crawl
cute number six reanimate er he’s dead
not anymore
bringing back the dead can only have
negative perverse consequences
INRI animator dr. Herbert West attempts
to do just that using a serum he’s
trying to perfect to reanimate the
deceased let us see my new serum at work
hm the dead corpses that do come back to
life end up being zombies incapable of
thought and reason gruesome in its
detail this sci-fi horror comedy
displays scenes of graphic violence such
as decapitation and dismemberment and
let’s not forget the infamous scene
where a headless body shoves it’s
bleeding detached head in between the
legs of a captured girl in order to
perform sexual acts disturbing number 5
Hellraiser
I’m Frank Frank cotton paid the price
upon opening a demonic puzzle box
when mutilated humanoid creatures known
as the Cenobites dragged him to their
dimension the Cenobites gave me an
experience beyond the limits Hellraiser
sees Frank’s brother Larry and his wife
Julia stay at the house Frank
disappeared in only for the deceased
brother to come back as a skinless
undead human Kirstie it’s
it’s uncle Franco you remember no come
to Daddy
cover me the bulk of the body horror
lies with the Cenobites themselves as
eyes are sewn shut
faces are peeled back with exposed teeth
and scars plagued their bodies
worst of all the Cenobites get off on
these mutilations number four video
Drome Videodrome
is dead exploring the themes of
television technology and the effects
they have on our minds and bodies
Videodrome is a bizarre surreal movie
with body horror at its center well the
new flesh the film follows a cable TV
programmer who becomes obsessed with a
strange signal broadcasting snuff films
something to do with the effects of
exposure to violence on the nervous
system it opens up receptors in the
brain and the spine and that allows the
Videodrome signal to sing
the programming eventually warps his
perception of reality
much like Cronenberg’s other body horror
films scanners the man becomes an
assassin for an evil corporation looking
to brainwash humans with organic video
cassette slots and stomachs tumors
gushing out of bullet holes and bodies
and living breathing seductive TV sets
it’s safe to say long live the new flesh
Bob left in the flesh number three alien
the first entry in this monumental film
franchise alien offers claustrophobia
and terror as the Nostromo space crew
lands on a planetoid where they discover
thousands of eggs ash can you see this
yes I can
I’ve never seen anything like it
paranoia and fear kick in when a
creature springs forth from one of the
eggs and attaches itself to one of the
crew members faces all hell breaks loose
when the seemingly recovered crewmember
starts convulsing and choking as his
chest explodes unleashing the alien from
within the notion of using the human
body as a means to birth aliens is a
horrifying thought number two the thing
you see what we’re talking about here is
an organism that imitates other life
forms and it imitates them perfectly
when this thing attacked our dogs have
tried to digest them a shape-shifting
alien has cornered scientists in a
research station where no one knows
who’s human and who’s alien in this
paranoia filled movie set in the
Antarctic
thousands of years ago it crashes and
this thing gets thrown out or crawls out
and it ends up freezing in the ice I
just cannot believe any of this voodoo
bullshit the thing offers gore aplenty
with graphic transformations dogs and
humans being ripped apart skin melting
off alien tentacles squirting and oozing
blood and slime and many other colorful
images
an iconic scene shows one of the
researchers trying to resuscitate a
fellow crew member
using a defibrillator but unbeknownst to
him the thing has taken over clear
this movie is the stuff of nightmares
before we reveal our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions shit Sam over
here uh keep away from the door wrong
with this guy’s he’s sicker and fake it
a want just love em now this is keep
growing chill on there
I just just have to get this point out
number one the fly no other film could
top a list of body horror movies then
one that has its main character
transformed into a gruesome humanoid fly
that’s not too terrible is it most
people will do anything to be turned
into something else talking to what well
you think a fly I’ll be going 185 pound
fly no be tell me something that never
existed before I’m becoming brundlefly
Seth Brundle is a scientist working on
transporting objects from one
teleportation device to another in a
jealous and drunken stupor he tests the
pod himself but little did he know that
a fly has also entered the same pod he
was in fusing its genes with grundles
what ensues is a slow transformation
into a fly human hybrid with body and
face slowly changing nails teeth and
ears falling off white corrosive vomit
melting limbs and of course the actual
transformation into a grotesque bulging
fly
the fly offers the viewer a body horror
masterpiece
do you agree with our list what body
horror movie do you think should have
made it for more horrific top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
I feel accelerated we almost died
human flesh be mutilated and damaged
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
body horror movies for this list we
focused on horror movies that offer
scares and chills derived from the
explicit damage and deterioration of the
human body
number ten Tetsuo the iron man I know
that a bizarre film that explores the
relationship between technology and our
physical selves Tetsuo the iron man is
unlike anything you’ve seen before the
titular character becomes infected with
a strange disease that spreads metal
parts all over his body
this occurs after he runs over a man who
shares this disfiguring sickness
eventually leading to a weird brawl
between the two metallic men slash
watching these two piles of scrap go at
it is a visual trainwreck the viewer
can’t help but look away as their senses
are assaulted by the interaction between
metal and flesh in the cyberpunk flick
which launched director Shinya tsukamoto
into cult territory yes you are a smoker
so Stan said i zero some extent us dead
we’re to no more than you guys dad oh
god number nine Naked Lunch Mar book
yeah the one you’ve been calling Naked
Lunch when you think a giant bug is
instructing you to kill your wife it’s
probably time to stop doing drugs your
life is not really your life she is an
agent of Interzone incorporated you must
kill her in Naked Lunch William an
exterminator begins hallucinating
because of the chemicals in the
insecticide he uses job is it to kill
bugs what ensues is a mess of surrealist
and grotesque scenes of exposed
centipede guts being harvested giant
insect monsters known as Mugwumps
talking and giving out orders and don’t
leave out any of the tasty details and
typewriters turning into creatures and
engaging in sexual relations with the
characters
just another film and director David
Cronenberg’s eccentric filmography I
thought you were finished with doing
weird stuff I thought I was too but I
guess I’m not number eight
altered states he’s the last guy in the
world I should be screwing around if
anything is flakey is open states of
consciousness edward Jessup a university
professor studying different states of
consciousness conducts experiments by
locking himself in an isolation tank
while taking hallucinogenic drugs he
obtained during an excursion in Mexico
the professor devolves into a primitive
neanderthal at first but the results
prove more horrifying when he transforms
into a shapeless mass of gooey matter
with blasphemous religious
hallucinations of a goat-headed 7i Jesus
on the cross in addition to the devolved
states of inhumanity altered states
packs a visual punch of grotesque
imagery
number seven Dead Ringers let me
introduce myself I’m one of the mantle
tones twins are creepy the twins did it
tentacle tweeting director David
Cronenberg ups the ante with twin
Gynaecologists who share women in Dead
Ringers if we didn’t share women you
still be a virgin specializing in female
fertility problems twins Elliott and
Beverly take us down a tragic spiral of
drug addiction when one of their
patients begins a relationship with
Beverly what follows is less of a gory
mess and more of a psychological body
horror with botched gynecological
procedures I’m afraid I’m not familiar
with these instruments doctor disturbing
surgical instruments and even graphic
biting of a scar original and
spine-chilling this film will make your
skin crawl
cute number six reanimate er he’s dead
not anymore
bringing back the dead can only have
negative perverse consequences
INRI animator dr. Herbert West attempts
to do just that using a serum he’s
trying to perfect to reanimate the
deceased let us see my new serum at work
hm the dead corpses that do come back to
life end up being zombies incapable of
thought and reason gruesome in its
detail this sci-fi horror comedy
displays scenes of graphic violence such
as decapitation and dismemberment and
let’s not forget the infamous scene
where a headless body shoves it’s
bleeding detached head in between the
legs of a captured girl in order to
perform sexual acts disturbing number 5
Hellraiser
I’m Frank Frank cotton paid the price
upon opening a demonic puzzle box
when mutilated humanoid creatures known
as the Cenobites dragged him to their
dimension the Cenobites gave me an
experience beyond the limits Hellraiser
sees Frank’s brother Larry and his wife
Julia stay at the house Frank
disappeared in only for the deceased
brother to come back as a skinless
undead human Kirstie it’s
it’s uncle Franco you remember no come
to Daddy
cover me the bulk of the body horror
lies with the Cenobites themselves as
eyes are sewn shut
faces are peeled back with exposed teeth
and scars plagued their bodies
worst of all the Cenobites get off on
these mutilations number four video
Drome Videodrome
is dead exploring the themes of
television technology and the effects
they have on our minds and bodies
Videodrome is a bizarre surreal movie
with body horror at its center well the
new flesh the film follows a cable TV
programmer who becomes obsessed with a
strange signal broadcasting snuff films
something to do with the effects of
exposure to violence on the nervous
system it opens up receptors in the
brain and the spine and that allows the
Videodrome signal to sing
the programming eventually warps his
perception of reality
much like Cronenberg’s other body horror
films scanners the man becomes an
assassin for an evil corporation looking
to brainwash humans with organic video
cassette slots and stomachs tumors
gushing out of bullet holes and bodies
and living breathing seductive TV sets
it’s safe to say long live the new flesh
Bob left in the flesh number three alien
the first entry in this monumental film
franchise alien offers claustrophobia
and terror as the Nostromo space crew
lands on a planetoid where they discover
thousands of eggs ash can you see this
yes I can
I’ve never seen anything like it
paranoia and fear kick in when a
creature springs forth from one of the
eggs and attaches itself to one of the
crew members faces all hell breaks loose
when the seemingly recovered crewmember
starts convulsing and choking as his
chest explodes unleashing the alien from
within the notion of using the human
body as a means to birth aliens is a
horrifying thought number two the thing
you see what we’re talking about here is
an organism that imitates other life
forms and it imitates them perfectly
when this thing attacked our dogs have
tried to digest them a shape-shifting
alien has cornered scientists in a
research station where no one knows
who’s human and who’s alien in this
paranoia filled movie set in the
Antarctic
thousands of years ago it crashes and
this thing gets thrown out or crawls out
and it ends up freezing in the ice I
just cannot believe any of this voodoo
bullshit the thing offers gore aplenty
with graphic transformations dogs and
humans being ripped apart skin melting
off alien tentacles squirting and oozing
blood and slime and many other colorful
images
an iconic scene shows one of the
researchers trying to resuscitate a
fellow crew member
using a defibrillator but unbeknownst to
him the thing has taken over clear
this movie is the stuff of nightmares
before we reveal our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions shit Sam over
here uh keep away from the door wrong
with this guy’s he’s sicker and fake it
a want just love em now this is keep
growing chill on there
I just just have to get this point out
number one the fly no other film could
top a list of body horror movies then
one that has its main character
transformed into a gruesome humanoid fly
that’s not too terrible is it most
people will do anything to be turned
into something else talking to what well
you think a fly I’ll be going 185 pound
fly no be tell me something that never
existed before I’m becoming brundlefly
Seth Brundle is a scientist working on
transporting objects from one
teleportation device to another in a
jealous and drunken stupor he tests the
pod himself but little did he know that
a fly has also entered the same pod he
was in fusing its genes with grundles
what ensues is a slow transformation
into a fly human hybrid with body and
face slowly changing nails teeth and
ears falling off white corrosive vomit
melting limbs and of course the actual
transformation into a grotesque bulging
fly
the fly offers the viewer a body horror
masterpiece
do you agree with our list what body
horror movie do you think should have
made it for more horrific top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
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