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body horror
noun
- a horror film genre in which the main feature is the graphically depicted destruction or degeneration of a human body or bodies
Example Sentences
The Vance edits are a vice presidential body horror, a dysmorphic smattering of ridicule seemingly from all sides of the Vance-loathing political spectrum.
There’s no nominated film this year as original as “The Substance,” and despite the film occasionally veering on a pastiche of other body horror commentaries, Fargeat’s confident screenplay sets the film apart from any comparison.
While part of me would love to see the criminally under-nominated “A Different Man” win in its one eligible category, “The Substance” deserves the award for its brilliant and imaginative take on body horror.
Demi Moore is nominated for best actress at the Oscars for her role in The Substance, a body horror which has revitalised her career.
The Substance is the first body horror to be nominated for best picture, and only the seventh horror overall.
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