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Body horror, or biological horror, is horror fiction in which the horror is principally derived from a sense of physical "wrongness" with the body.^{citation needed}

Notable films

• Alien (1979)¹
• Altered States (1980)
• Possession (1981)
• The Thing (1982)¹
• Videodrome (1983)
• Guinea Pig (film series) (1985)
• Re-Animator (1985)
• The Fly (1986)
• Hellraiser (1987)
• Brain Damage (1988)
• Society (1989)
• Jacob's Ladder (1990)
• Body Melt (1993)

See also

• Horror as a genre
• Morphological freedom
• Biopunk, which can cross over into body horror
• New French Extremity
• Psychological horror

References

External links

• Inside Out: Body Horror

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