Body Horror Archives

As expected and hoped, the Korean version leans into the body horror and looks even more action-packed than the Japanese adaptations. "Parasyte: The Grey" poster art: Netflix Parasyte: The Grey – More Action, Bigger Set Pieces The six-part K-drama series deviates from the plot of the original manga but keeps the same premise as Parasytes invade South Korea[...]

It feels like it could take place in the same universe as Succession, the gory, body horror corner of it, and even more nastily funny You can imagine the Logans going around in this New York City, that Shiv could end up a client at the Mantles' birthing center. This remake more than earns its place[...]

We're still waiting for the new anime adaptation of his classic Lovecraftian horror series Uzumaki (translation: "Spiral") to hit this year, and he is the reigning Master of Body Horror since David Cronenberg has been less prolific in the last decade. Panel from "Uzumaki" by Junji Ito, Viz Media So his US publisher Viz Media decides to[...]

The alien in The Seed looks like it could be the monstrous fetus from Eraserhead, now grown up and out looking for dates, possessing mind-control powers to coerce women into having trippy Body Horror sex so it can impregnate them It doesn't have anything to say other than a slow, plodding trek towards psychedelic and[...]

The show was a heady combination of medical drama, soap opera, gothic horror, social satire, ghost story, political commentary, satanic horror, Lovecraftian cosmic horror, and all-out Cronenbergian body horror Von Trier had always been upfront about being influenced by David Lynch's Twin Peaks in the creation of the show. Still from "The Kingdom", Zentropa The cult show,[...]

They were written in the era of AIDS and fear of sex, and themes of gender, body horror and sexual anxiety drove much of the horror fiction at the time They were also amongst the few horror stories to deal with homosexuality and subtexts of sex work and BDSM Several stories were considered seminal and[...]

It's not his first or earliest work, but it was the perfect entry point for his themes of cosmic horror, paranoia, madness and squishy, slimy body horror. Cartoon Network's Adult Swim has announced that it would be co-producing a new 4-part anime adaptation with Production I.G in Japan The series will premiere in the US on[...]

Body Horror is a recurring theme and imagery in the stories: people are mutilated, warped, distorted and changed Ito's people recoil in terror, their eyes wide in disbelief, mouths agape at the rational world falling away from them to reveal a yawning existential chasm of horror that's the true face of the world they live[...]

Chinese news network ECNS reports that a recent South Korean on-line horror manwha Beauty Water has gone viral in China. And that millions of new readers