Scorn's Body Horror Could Revamp The Horror Genre

gamerant.com:

Every once in a while, a new game will enter the scene that deviates so completely from the norm that it reinvents the rules, and Scorn looks like it's going to be one of those games. Despite a lengthy time spent in development and through Kickstarter funding, Scornwas once again seen at the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase this year and given an official release date.

Launching just in time for Halloween, Scorn has promised its fans and backers a macabre and morbid odyssey through a biomechanical hellscape that places its horror front and center. Unlike other horror games of its ilk, it is not just an alien world and its symbiotic creatures that will unsettle players, but the quintessential body horror experience that Scorn delivers, wherein the true horror is the perversion and corruption of the human form until it becomes so unrecognizable that it is more inhuman than anything else.

Sci-Fi, Horror Dominated Summer Game Fest 2022

Body horror has its earliest roots in Gothic literature through the aberration, mutilation, or corruption of the human body. To that end, it's always been one of the less seen subgenres of horror due to the graphic nature when depicted, making it difficult to market and «show» to audiences. But that hasn't stopped audiences' morbid fascination with it, and thanks to the likes of David Cronenberg's The Thing and The Fly popularizing it at the Hollywood level, a breadth of body horror movies thrive today. Since film and gaming share a hand-in-hand relationship when it comes to defining their genres, body horror made its way into the gaming scene.

Gaming thankfully has a far more relaxed and welcoming attitude when it comes to body horror, as some of gaming's biggest and most iconic franchises from