Category:Film:BodyHorror

Films involving Body Horror: the corruption, distortion, twisting, mutilation, or mutation of flesh into grotesque, viscerally repulsive forms, shapes and appearances. Lovecraft probably didn't invent the genre, but seems to have enjoyed his part in popularizing it, with melting, crumbling human flesh, the twisted shapes of half-human hybrids, and so on making appearances in many of his stories. Since the 1980s, it seems that a "Lovecraftian" film is hardly complete without a hefty dose of surreal body horror of some sort....