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Saccharine review – eating disorder body horror offers plenty to chew over

Australian director Natalie Erika James demonstrates the power of movies as vessels for cultural commentary in this intoxicatingly creepy productionThe body horror genre has been a...

‘Saccharine’ Director and Star Break Down Their Accidentally Timely Body Horror Film

Filmmaker Natalie Erika James and lead Midori Francis unpack why horror is the perfect genre to address the topics of disordered eating, addiction and obsession: “Horror is amazing...

Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle

The protagonist of Fabulous Bodies, Poppy, appears on the scene as a horrible person who has survived a horrible childhood. Early on, she meets someone who says, “I’m not a bad guy...

I Love Horror, But Nothing Prepared Me For Body Horror From Martin Scorsese

I didn't know Scorsese had it in him.

‘Saccharine’ Star Midori Francis Thinks Horror Was the ‘Perfect Vehicle’ to Talk About Eating Disorders

Filmmaker Natalie Erika James adds she wanted to ask "big questions" with her body horror movie from IFC and Shudder The post ‘Saccharine’ Star Midori Francis Thinks Horror Was th...

The Substance and The Ugly Stepsister Expose the Horror of Toxic Beauty Standards

We are currently in a new era of feminist thought. With the dawn of the realization that many of the beauty standards... The post The Substance and The Ugly Stepsister Expose the H...

How Sara Priorelli distorts bodies to laugh off the awkwardness of having one

The self-taught animator on collage, control and why fingers, hair and breasts are the most expressive things to draw and make move. Most of us spend a lifetime trying to feel at...

The Zombie Has Never Been Just a Dead Body

Start with the older fear, the one that has nothing to do with appetite. A person dies. That is bad, but it is not the worst of it. The body gets up again, not because it is hungry...

Peeing in the dark: Gender dysphoria, shame & the body I couldn’t bear to see

The following is an excerpt from the new book "Ugly: A Letter to My Daughter" by Steph Fairyington and available now from Pantheon Books.

Explicit Bodies, Hidden Bodies Exhibition / Vão

The body is the first trench of existence, state the curators of "Corpos explícitos, corpos ocultos" (Explicit Bodies, Hidden Bodies). By evoking the image of a border and precedin...

Accepting a Changing Body

It is natural for bodies to change over time. Yet, we often expect our bodies to stay the same, which can lead to insecurity and feeling unworthy in the face of a changing body.

Memes About The Body You Wish Were NSFW

Disability Pride Month and Horror’s Favorite Lazy Shortcut

July is Disability Pride Month, so it is a good time to admit something about the genre I love. Horror has spent about a hundred years teaching audiences that a wrong body is a war...

De ongemakkelijke waarheid is dat controle over je lichaam een illusie is

Kitty Herweijer schrijft drie keer per week over wat haar bezighoudt.

Arab Strap’s “Glamour Magick” video is body horror worthy of ‘The Substance’

Arab Strap’s new album ‘Half Told Tales’ is out September 4.

CLAYFACE Test Screening Reactions Reveal an Absolutely Gnarly Body Horror Scene

The Sickness, Volume 1

by Dr. Javier A Suarez The Sickness is disgusting and scary. A trite observation based on the cover, but one that extends into the themes of the work beyond its initial oozing hook...

De ongemakkelijke waarheid is dat controle over je lichaam een illusie is

Kitty Herweijer schrijft drie keer per week over wat haar bezighoudt.

Obsession/Backrooms: The Horror of Ideas Instead of Monsters

For decades, horror films relied on familiar threats. Audiences expected haunted houses, serial killers, supernatural entities, or creatures lurking in The post Obsession/Backrooms...

Heteropessimist Horror

Obsession, the box-office sensation directed by 26-year-old Curry Barker, is a sign that the economics of Hollywood are changing, with internet-incubated stories overtaking superan...

The Cost Of Being A Spectacle: Growing Up In An Architecture Of Shaming

As global fashion trends increasingly romanticise a singular physique, the pressure to conform becomes a burden for girls who do not see their proportions reflected in stores or me...

This neurological condition makes people deny their own limbs

Somatoparaphrenia is a rare delusion in which a person denies that one of their limbs, or an entire side of their body, belongs to them — even when shown direct proof. Patients don...

‘The Unknown’ Review: Léa Seydoux Anchors Arthur Harari’s Shattering, Existential Body-Swap Drama

There have been and likely will always be body-swap movies. No matter how they go about exploring their respective takes on the well-worn premise, there’s always something potentia...

Touch Me Review: Alien Horror-Comedy Is Bizarre, Kinky Fun

An amorous pansexual alien charms the pants off two best friends in Addison Heimann's audaciously offbeat horror-comedy Touch Me. The post Touch Me Review: Alien Horror-Comedy Is B...