Tag: Body Horror
Is there a job that’s actually worth dying for? Director Jake Myers takes on the modern grind culture with this darkly humorous body horror about a mind-altering drink that makes employees work themselves to death. Early on in the film, a young woman is seen working overtime at a mysterious office when she gets a
Director Kenichi Ugana is profoundly interested in exploring societal outcasts and obsessives in his work, whilst maintaining a distinct punk and transgressive style. With titles such as Visitors: Complete Edition (2023), Extraneous Matter: Complete Edition (2021), and The Curse (2025), to name a few, the young director’s vast number of films feature elements from all
Equal parts camp and shlock horror, Brooke H. Cellars‘s The Cramps: A Period Piece (2025) takes the humour and queer authenticity of a John Waters film and merges it into a gory creature feature that’ll get a standing ‘ovulation’ from period-havers in the audience! Agnes (played by Lauren Kitchen) is a beautiful apple-cheeked young woman
When you think of your home town you may find yourself fondly reminiscing about the idiosyncratic characters and stories only your community knows about: the derelict building at the end of the street known to house horrors beyond comprehension; the subterranean tunnel no one dares frequent at night lest the creatures of the sewers consume
Aimee Kuge’s directorial debut feature, Cannibal Mukbang, dares to ask, “How far would you go for love?” This unsettling yet darkly compelling film explores some of society’s most intimate, and often destructive, relationships: with food, with sexuality, and with one another. Through the visceral lens of performative social media and the primal taboo of cannibalism,
Director Oz Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Gretel & Hansel) has carved a niche for himself as a purveyor of slow, dreamlike horror steeped in dread. Longlegs, his latest film, promises to be his most ambitious project yet: a serial killer procedural dripping with Satanic overtones, shot through a grainy 90s lens, and headlined by a
The Ugly Stepsister (2025) is Norwegian writer and director Emilie Blichfeldt’s debut feature that combines a reworked fairytale with stomach-churning body horror while satirising the appalling steps women must take when gaining a wealthy husband is the highest aspiration a woman could have. This Cinderella tale is shown from the point of view of Elvira
Chuck Wendig’s novel Black River Orchard (2023) is a truly modern, small-town horror, evoking the best of Stephen King while summoning dark, twisted, and disturbing imagery that makes this story genuinely terrifying to read. Set in Harrow, Pennsylvania, the Black River Orchard mostly follows the father-and-daughter team of Dan and Calla Paxson. Obsessed with restoring
2 Girls 1 Gut is a 2024 extreme horror short written and directed by Guy. A British ex-pat filmmaker based in Osaka, Japan, Guy has made a name for himself in the J-horror genre with titles such as Difficulty Breathing (2020), The Sound of Summer (2022), and the found footage horror The Unsolved Love Hotel
While anthologies can be slightly hit or miss at times, Rampo Noir (2005) seems determined to set itself apart. A lush and stylistic horror film with challenging eroticisms and unhinged humor, it presents four powerful segments from four directors with distinct cinematic styles, showcasing how Edogawa Ranpo’s masterful literature continues to inspire modern filmmakers. The