Tag: Body Horror
New Group is a 2025 Japanese body horror film written and directed by Yuta Shimotsu. After beginning his film career with the 2022 short film Best Wishes to All, Shimotsu expanded it in 2023 into a feature-length version with the same name. Outside of film, Shimotsu has recently directed the upcoming TV series Strange: Junji
The Sky Has Fallen is a 2009 American body horror film written and directed by Doug Roos. Beginning his career writing and directing short films such as In the Shadows (2006) and Hunted (2007), Doug would go on to break into feature-length films with this film, and would go on to film the horror films
The V/H/S film series is well known at this point, at least within the horror community. The franchise includes eight main films, two spin-offs (SiREN and Kids vs. Aliens), as well as a Snapchat miniseries titled V/H/S: Video Horror Shorts. It would be remiss of me not to point all of this out, as the
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man is a 2009 Japanese cyberpunk body horror film written and directed by Shin’ya Tsukamoto, with additional writing from Hisakatsu Kuroki. Known for his writing, directing, and acting skills, Shin’ya Tsukamoto is notable for creating films such as Hiruko the Goblin (1991), Haze (2005), and Nightmare Detective (2006), along with this film’s
I was initially taken aback by the title of this film—I assumed that Lee Cronin was some prolific filmmaker that I had yet to familiarize myself with, but a quick Google search revealed that he’s a relatively new arrival to the mainstream. He stepped into the spotlight fairly recently by directing Evil Dead Rise back
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,