Body Horror Fans Should Check Out The Short-Lived Swamp Thing Series

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Before HBO Max became the streaming platform it is today, there was the short-lived DC Universe. The platform promised a catalog of DC Comics, movies, and television shows for comic book fans. Titans, Doom Patrol, Stargirl, and Swamp Thing all debuted on DC Universe before they got new homes on HBO Max or the CW. Swamp Thing, however, didn’t make it beyond its initial episode order to find a home on another platform. While it initially had a 13 episode order, DC Universe cut it back to 10, and then canceled the series completely.

Thanks to deals with other streaming services and the CW, however, fans all over the world have now been able to watch Swamp Thing. The CW brought edited versions of the episodes to the screen after the cancelation, and made the series available on their streaming app as well. The series draws inspiration from different DC comic book runs, but its short first season is really a love letter to horror — specifically, body horror.

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When many movie fans think of horror, they think of the suspense and the jump scares of the slasher films made famous by Halloween and Friday The 13th. Horror as a genre, however, has many subgenres. Slasher flicks just encompass one aspect of the genre.

The body horror subgenre stems out of horror classics like The Blob and The Fly. In fact, David Cronenberg’s remake of The Fly is often considered one of the best body horror films to exist. Even more than 30 years later, the movie is still considered the gold standard.

Body horror uses the human body to make the audience uncomfortable. It’s the body itself, and its transformations (or its treatment), that is used to create the suspense, the anxiety, and the need