A guide to the woman-focused body horror revival
When Philip Brophy coined the term “body horror” in 1983, in the article ‘Horrality: The Textuality of the Contemporary Horror Film’, it was with concern to a then-palpable trend in horror cinema in which “the fear… [and] destruction of the body” was the primary source of terror. Body-assimilation masterwork The Thing (1982) and metamorphosishellip;