5 Great Modern Body Horror Movies

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For those who wondered what the human body is capable of, whether there are limits to flesh and bone, and whether humanity can exist beyond its mortal cage, there's a subgenre for you. Body horror provides some of the most disgusting content ever put to film, and it does it with a strong message behind all the blood.

Body horror is best codified by the works of director David Cronenberg, whose name is now inseparable from the genre. Though he recently returned to the subgenre after a couple of decades away, there are plenty of other interesting and unique creators still keeping the internal nightmares alive.

5 Underrated Body Horror Films

Who else to carry the disgusting fleshy torch from David Cronenberg than his son Brandon? This 2020 body horror thriller has one of the best horror premises of recent memory and still manages to go above and beyond in execution. Andrea Riseborough stars as Tasya Vos, an assassin who carries out her grim work by forcefully taking over the mind of an innocent bystander and using their body to kill her target. The job takes a massive toll on her ability to maintain her own identity, as she struggles to keep her life and her victim's life separate. When she takes a big-name assignment that leaves her in someone else's head for too long, the walls start to break down and everyone involved becomes endangered. It's one of the most powerfully disturbing films released recently, with an approach to violence that makes the viewer's blood run cold. Possessor is a special film that sticks in its audience's head, whether they'd like it to or not.

Despite only having two features to her name so far, Julia Ducournau has established herself as one of the best filmmakers in the body horror genre. Her 2016