Body horror is a subgenre ofhorror. This genre shows disturbing changes to thehuman body, likedisease,decay, destruction, andmutation. The genre originates ingothic literature, especially novelFrankenstein by English writerMary Shelley.
Famous representatives of this genre are movies ofDavid Cronenberg (The Fly, Scanners, Shivers, Rabid,Videodrome),Saw,The Thing,Braindead, theAlien movie series, manyJapanese horror movies (Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Ichi the Killer) and so on.
