5 Underrated Body Horror Films
Horror cinema encompasses the widest variety of content and quality, leaving room for some of the most disposable garbage and the most incredible art in the medium. It's also one of the most prolific genres of cinema, so there's a ton of good stuff that can get buried by bigger names.
Body horror eschews the incomprehensible threats of cosmic horror or the unkillable murderers of slasher films for something a bit simpler. Instead, body horror focuses on the inherent unpleasantness of the blood and skin mankind walks around inside. Between transforming into an inhuman shape to being ripped apart from within, body horror is the kind of thing that doesn't appeal to everyone but really appeals to a chosen few.
New Crimes Of The Future Poster Teases David Cronenberg's Gruesome Vision
James Gunn is perhaps the most sought-after director in the world of both blockbusters and independent cinema right now, but in 2006, he was a more obscure figure. Gunn's masterful contributions to both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Extended Universe are hugely popular, but his first film only attained success from a cult audience. Slither stars Nathan Fillion as a small-town cop who is faced with an alien invasion. Elizabeth Banks plays opposite him as the first person in town to discover the problem. The parasitic aliens infest the bodies of their victims, turning them into tentacled monstrosities. The first victim is Michael Rooker, in a stellar role as a horrific host. In the time-honored style of James Gunn, the film plays this nightmarish situation into a pitch-black comedy alongside its horror elements.
No list of body horror films could ever be complete without the work of David Cronenberg. From his genre-defining Scanners in 1981
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