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body horror

noun

  1. a horror film genre in which the main feature is the graphically depicted destruction or degeneration of a human body or bodies
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The Vance edits are a vice presidential body horror, a dysmorphic smattering of ridicule seemingly from all sides of the Vance-loathing political spectrum.

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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.

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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.

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Demi Moore is nominated for best actress at the Oscars for her role in The Substance, a body horror which has revitalised her career.

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The Substance is the first body horror to be nominated for best picture, and only the seventh horror overall.

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