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Alpha (2025 film)
Alpha (2025) is Julia Ducournau's third feature, a France-Belgium body-horror drama about a 13-year-old girl whose tattoo sparks fears of a marble-inducing blood-borne disease; an AIDS allegory that premiered in Cannes 2025 competition.
American Mary
American Mary (2012) is a Canadian body-horror film by twin directors Jen and Sylvia Soska, starring Katharine Isabelle as med student Mary Mason, who funds her studies through underground body-modification surgery and revenge on her rapist professor.
Antibirth
Antibirth is a 2016 body-horror comedy, Danny Perez's debut feature, starring Natasha Lyonne as Lou, a drug user with a mysterious abnormal pregnancy; premiered at Sundance, released by IFC Midnight, 68% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Antiviral (film)
Antiviral (2012) is Brandon Cronenberg's debut Canadian sci-fi body horror film, screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, starring Caleb Landry Jones as a clinic employee selling celebrity viruses who becomes infected with the disease that kills star Hannah Geist.
Appendage (film)
Appendage is a 2023 American horror comedy film written and directed by Anna Zlokovic, her feature debut, expanded from her 2021 Hulu Bite Size Halloween short. Hadley Robinson plays Hannah, a fashion designer whose self-doubt manifests as a monstrous growth; it premiered at SXSW and streamed on Hulu from October 2, 2023.
Basket Case (film)
Basket Case (1982) is Frank Henenlotter's $35,000 16mm horror comedy about Duane Bradley and his basket-dwelling deformed twin Belial seeking revenge on the doctors who separated them; a midnight movie hit that spawned two sequels.
Boxing Helena
Boxing Helena is a 1993 American erotic thriller, the directorial debut of Jennifer Chambers Lynch, starring Julian Sands as a surgeon who keeps an amputated woman captive.
Breeder (film)
Breeder (2026) horror comedy, Alex Goyette's feature debut, starring Daniel Doheny, Dot-Marie Jones, and Maddie Phillips; Tribeca premiere June 6, 2026, IFC/Shudder US release October 28, 2026; distinct from the 2020 Danish film of the same name.
Cabin Fever (2016 film)
Cabin Fever (2016) is a horror remake of Eli Roth's 2002 film, directed by Travis Zariwny using Roth and Randy Pearlstein's original script, released by IFC Films on February 12, 2016, with 0% on Rotten Tomatoes and $114,835 worldwide gross.
Clayface (film)
Clayface is a 2026 American body horror film directed by James Watkins, starring Tom Rhys Harries as an actor whose experimental treatment turns him into living clay.
Contracted: Phase II
Contracted: Phase II (2015) is a body-horror sequel to Contracted, directed by Josh Forbes, written by Craig Walendziak, starring Matt Mercer as infected Riley; IFC Midnight release, 42% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Control Freak (film)
Control Freak (2025) is a Hulu body-horror film written and directed by Shal Ngo, based on his short Control; Kelly Marie Tran plays a motivational speaker infected by a parasitic demon, Sanshi. Distinct from Barry Williams' 2025 thriller of the same name.
Crimes of the Future (2022 film)
Crimes of the Future (2022) is David Cronenberg's body-horror sci-fi film starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, and Kristen Stewart, about humans mutating new organs in a plastic-polluted future; premiered at Cannes 2022, released by Neon.
Dumplings (饺子)
Dumplings (餃子, Gaau ji) is a 2004 Hong Kong horror film by Fruit Chan, expanded from a Three... Extremes segment, starring Miriam Yeung, Bai Ling, and Tony Leung Ka-fai as customers of youth-restoring dumplings made from aborted fetuses.
Eraserhead
Eraserhead is David Lynch's 1977 black-and-white debut feature, starring Jack Nance as Henry Spencer. Shot 1971-1976 at AFI stables, it became a midnight-movie cult classic with Alan Splet's industrial sound design.
From Beyond (film)
From Beyond (1986) is Stuart Gordon's sci-fi body horror film, loosely adapted from H.P. Lovecraft's short story, starring Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, and Ken Foree; a Resonator machine stimulates the pineal gland to reveal a hostile parallel dimension.
Grafted (film)
Grafted (2024) is a New Zealand body horror film and the feature debut of director Sasha Rainbow, starring Joyena Sun, Jess Hong, and Eden Hart. It premiered at NZIFF in August 2024 and streams on Shudder from January 24, 2025.
Hatching (film)
Hatching (Pahanhautoja) is a 2022 Finnish body-horror film, Hanna Bergholm's debut, in which gymnast Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) hatches a doppelgänger creature; Sundance 2022, IFC Midnight release, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Lice (film)
Lice is an upcoming horror-comedy film directed by Jonathan Bensimon, starring Emile Hirsch, Justin Long, and Kevin Connolly, about a weaponized lice outbreak at a 1980s Long Island high school under military lockdown, releasing in 2027.
Nightbitch (film)
Nightbitch (2024) is a dark comedy film written and directed by Marielle Heller, adapted from Rachel Yoder's 2021 novel, starring Amy Adams as a stay-at-home mother apparently transforming into a dog. Searchlight released it December 6, 2024; Metascore 56, Rotten Tomatoes 59%.
Rabid (1977 film)
Rabid (1977) is David Cronenberg's Canadian body-horror film starring Marilyn Chambers as Rose, whose experimental plastic surgery leaves her with an armpit stinger and bloodlust, spreading a rabies-like epidemic through Montreal; it cost $530,000 and grossed $7 million.
Raw (film)
Raw (film) is a 2016 French-Belgian horror drama, directed by Julia Ducournau. It follows Justine, a student who transforms after hazings force her to eat raw meat.
Santa Sangre
Santa Sangre (Holy Blood) is Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1989 Italian-Mexican surrealist horror film about Fenix, a circus performer who becomes his armless mother's arms in a murder spree; shown at Cannes 1989, based on killer Goyo Cardenas.
Shell (2024 film)
Shell (2024 film), also called Shell: Jeunesse éternelle, is Max Minghella's body-horror dark comedy starring Elisabeth Moss and Kate Hudson; it premiered at TIFF 2024, was released October 3, 2025, and earned 63% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Slanted
Slanted is a 2025 satirical body horror film and feature debut of Chinese-Australian director Amy Wang, in which Chinese-American teen Joan Huang undergoes Ethnos clinic surgery to become white for prom queen; SXSW 2025 Grand Jury winner, Bleecker Street release.
Society (film)
Society (1989) is Brian Yuzna's directorial debut, a body horror satire starring Billy Warlock as a Beverly Hills teen whose elite family are parasitic monsters; famous for the Screaming Mad George shunting finale, it flopped in the US but became a cult classic in the UK.
Sssssss
Sssssss (1973) is an American body horror film directed by Bernard L. Kowalski, starring Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, and Heather Menzies, about a herpetologist who secretly transforms his lab assistant into a snake.
Stuffed (film)
Stuffed (2026) is a British musical comedy-drama by Theo Rhys, expanded from his 2021 SXSW-winning short, starring Jodie Comer as taxidermist Araminta and Harry Melling as Bernie, who volunteers to be her human specimen; premiered at TIFF 2026, 117 minutes, 75% on Rotten Tomatoes. Distinct from the 2019 Erin Derham taxidermy documentary of the same name.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (鉄男)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (鉄男) is Shinya Tsukamoto's 1989 Japanese black-and-white 16mm body horror feature debut, based on The Phantom of Regular Size, about a salaryman whose flesh turns to metal; it won the 1989 Rome Fantafestival Grand Prix.
The Brood
The Brood is a 1979 Canadian body-horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, and Art Hindle, in which psychoplasmic therapy turns a divorcing woman's rage into killer offspring; inspired by Cronenberg's own divorce.