Horror movies and literature reflect people's anxieties by taking them to gory extremes. Body horror taps into the very human fear of how unpredictable, and even uncontrollable, our bodies can be.

New female-focused "body horror" movies have tackled everything from unrealistic beauty standards to modern clampdowns on reproductive rights, but some cinemagoers are finding it way too much.

Few horror subgenres are as viscerally discomforting as body horror. These are the films that get "creative" with their bloodshed, twisting the human body to its absolute limit (sometimes ...

A mountainous horror film reminiscent of The Shining — albeit with far more overt body horror — it follows ... the biology and sociology of specific birds, but the peculiar screeching that ...

The satirical body horror was nominated for Best Director, Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, and Best Actress for lead Demi Moore. That it may be the campiest ...