Tag Archives: Body Horror

A young couple is desperate for a child in award winning playwright Hamza Zaman’s directorial debut, The Institute. This microbudget feature utilizes relatable, pervasive unease and fears to endear its main characters to us. Most of the film’s 90ish minute runtime is a slow burn, but a handful of relatively …

Bugs of any kind give me a creepy, crawly feeling. Spiders are at the top of that list with their spindly legs and webbing. So, it goes without being said that The Boy with the Spider Face gave me the creepy crawlies. The first novella from AJ Franks presents the …

John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, James Gunn, and Stuart Gordon are the pivotal names that we imagine when we think about body horror films. They go above and beyond with this gross out horror genre that gets under our skin and terrifies us with the unknown. Although they have earned their …

With a special edition Blu-ray coming soon—April 12th, 2021—I thought I would take another look at the techno/splatterpunk and body horror film from Japanese directors Yudai Yamaguchi and Junichi Yamamoto, 2005’s Meatball Machine! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVBQedhFk0g Synopsis: Capable of making bio-mechanical weapons out of human flesh, alien parasites grotesquely invade the Earth, …

My ears always perk up every time a new title from DREAD is on the way. The label formerly known as Dread Central Presents has quickly become one of the most consistently solid teams around, dropping killer titles (Terrifier, Extremity, Slay Belles, Dry Blood, etc.) virtually every time. The latest …

In 1986, Jeff Goldblum graced our eyeballs with more than his hairy chest in The Fly, and let’s face it, the more Goldblum we can get the better all our lives will be. David Cronenberg (Rabid 1977) gave us this cult hit motion picture. Just three years later in 1989, …

Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a sucker for body horror films. There’s just something truly terrifying about your own body turning against you. No matter how fast you can run, there’s no escaping yourself. So when I heard that the 1993 Australian horror film, Body Melt, was getting …

How far would you go to save your child? Most parents would be willing to go to the ends of the earth, although arguably not as far as Leo, the protagonist of Luke Ramer’s indie horror film, The Taxidermist. Synopsis: Leo is a struggling artist, who falls upon hard times. …

There was a time when there were only three major TV channels – ABC, CBS, and NBC – and some really great, barely regulated minor UHF channels. That was the only option to see movies, other than catching them on their first run in the theatre. I used to try …

I’m a huge fan of Black Fawn Distribution, the Canadian powerhouse has undeniably become one of the most reliable companies on the planet. They are consistently delivering the horror goods, with killer must-see films like Horsehead (2014), Bite (2015 – our review here ), The Heretics (2017 – our coverage of poster and trailer …