What is Body horror?
'''''Body horror''''' is a subgenre of [[horror]]. This genre shows disturbing changes to the [[human body]], like [[disease]], [[putrefaction|decay]], destruction, and [[mutation]]. The genre originates in [[Gothic fiction|gothic literature]], especially novel [[Frankenstein]] by English writer [[Mary Shelley]]. Famous representatives of this genre are movies of [[David Cronenberg]] ([[The Fly (1986 movie)|The Fly,]] Scanners, Shivers, Rabid, [[Videodrome]]), [[Saw (movie)|Saw]], [[The Thing (1982 movie)|The Thing]], [[Braindead (movie)|Braindead]], the [[Alien (movie)|Alien]] movie series, many [[Japanese horror]] movies (Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Ichi the Killer) and so on. {{stub}} [[Category:Horror movies]]