Body Horror

Body Horror

8 Episodes

Transformation, infection, contagion, and mutation run rampant in these fleshy nightmares that render the human form unstable, uncanny, and sublimely grotesque. While David Cronenberg established himself as the reigning king of body horror with gloriously gooey, thematically provocative cult favorites like THE BROOD and THE FLY, master directors ranging from Ken Russell (ALTERED STATES) to Claire Denis (TROUBLE EVERY DAY) to William Friedkin (BUG) have each put their own stamp on a genre that posits the body as a site of trauma, desire, and uncontrollable change.

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Body Horror

8 Episodes

  • Possession
    2:04:27
    Possession
    Episode 1

    Possession

    Episode 1

    Directed by Andrzej Żuławski • 1981 • France, West Germany
    Starring Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent

    Andrzej Żuławski’s stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an experience unlike any other. Professional spy Mark (Sam Neill) returns to his West Berlin home to fin...

  • Eyes Without a Face
    1:30:30
    Eyes Without a Face
    Episode 2

    Eyes Without a Face

    Episode 2

    Directed by Georges Franju • 1960 • France
    Starring Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, François Guérin

    At his secluded chateau in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor (Pierre Brasseur) attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of his daughter’s disfigured countenance—a...

  • Matango
    1:29:50
    Matango
    Episode 3

    Matango

    Episode 3

    Directed by Ishiro Honda • 1963 • Japan
    Starring Hiroshi Koizumi, Kumi Mizuno, Kenji Sahara

    Leaving behind the kaiju genre for which he was best known, Ishiro Honda took a detour into hallucinogenic science fiction with this disturbing psychological survival thriller that stands as perhaps the d...

  • The Face of Another
    2:01:59
    The Face of Another
    Episode 4

    The Face of Another

    Episode 4

    Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara • 1966 • Japan
    Starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Machiko Kyo, Mikijiro Hira

    A staggering work of existential science fiction, THE FACE OF ANOTHER dissects identity with the sure hand of a surgeon. Okuyama (YOJIMBO’s Tatsuya Nakadai), after being burned and disfigured in a...

  • Eraserhead
    1:29:17
    Eraserhead
    Episode 5

    Eraserhead

    Episode 5

    Directed by David Lynch • 1977 • United States
    Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Judith Anna Roberts

    David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, ERASERHEAD, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by Frederick El...

  • The Brood
    1:32:26
    The Brood
    Episode 6

    The Brood

    Episode 6

    Directed by David Cronenberg • 1979 • Canada
    Starring Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle

    A disturbed woman is receiving a radical form of psychotherapy at a remote, mysterious institute. Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter, under the care of her estranged husband, is being terrorized by a...

  • Scanners
    1:43:14
    Scanners
    Episode 7

    Scanners

    Episode 7

    Directed by David Cronenberg • 1981 • Canada
    Starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O’Neill, Michael Ironside

    With SCANNERS, David Cronenberg plunges us into one of his most terrifying and thrilling sci-fi worlds. After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabb...

  • Trouble Every Day
    1:41:07
    Trouble Every Day
    Episode 8

    Trouble Every Day

    Episode 8

    Directed by Claire Denis • 2001 • France
    Starring Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Béatrice Dalle

    Claire Denis’s poetic take on the body-horror genre is an atmospheric reverie of blood and lust that lays bare the filmmaker’s core artistic concerns around power, desire, and delirium. Newlyweds Shane...

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