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body horror

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body horror
n
(Performing Arts) a horror film genre in which the main feature is the graphically depicted destruction or degeneration of a human body or bodies


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His stuff was called body horror because it was always things happening to people's insides, things erupting from inside the body.
Inspired by the pulpy blood-and-guts aesthetic of 1950s-era EC Comics titles, Burns inflects his hard-boiled genre tales with an operatic admixture of pop-cultural nostalgia, absurdist humor, and Cronenbergian body horror that engenders a perpetual disquiet.
David Cronenberg is far too serious for body horror these days - so someone's got to step into the breach.
 
 
 
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