Welcome to the lovely land of Body Horror. Simply put, this is any form of Horror or squickiness involving body parts, parasitism, disfigurement, mutation, ... PlayingWith / Body Horror · Best Quotes for Body Horror · Transformation Horror

A page for describing BodyHorror: Film. Works with their own pages: The DCU Marvel Universe Beowulf (2007): Grendel has patches of golden skin, but …

People get their skin ripped off, cosmetic surgery goes horribly, horribly wrong, a guy gets a body made out of eyeballs, the list goes on and on.

Transformation Horror is a subtrope of Body Horror involving graphic and unsettling transformation sequences (not the trope) or continuous random mutation.

The Necromorphs of Dead Space are alien parasites that infect dead bodies. The infected corpses reanimate and start growing all sorts of disgusting appendages.

The Talking Heads' "Seen and Not Seen" is one of the subtlest examples of body horror on this list, especially since it is delivered in a near monotone. It ...

This is any form of Horror that is based primarily on the body visibly mutating and developing in out-of-control, hideous ways.

Itchy skin, inflamed and peeling. Mouldering scabs, decaying, dribbling. That was how it started. Then bouquets of angry boils swelled tender and ripe.

The changes include finger nails, toenails and skin becoming brittle and growing at an increased rate, skin cancer, skin, hair and mouths growing in random ...

Most of William S. Burroughs' novels are filled with body horror. Stephen King uses this trope a lot in his work.