History BodyHorror / Film

* One devoted scene per IndianaJones movie. In ''Raiders'' [[spoiler:the Wrath of God scene - Toht's face melts, Dietrich's head shrivels up, and Belloq's head explodes.]] In ''Temple of Doom'' [[spoiler:the still-beating heart scene.]] ''Last Crusade'' has [[spoiler:Donovan drinking from the fake Holy Grail, suddenly aging, and his corpse shattering on the ground.]] Finally in ''Crystal Skull'' [[spoiler:Spalko's "gift" from the aliens overloads her brain, and fire spews out of her face.]]

* In the first ''Film/FantasticFour'' movie, Doom gets a shard of metal stuck in him, which causes his entire body to eventually turn into metal.

* In ''TheMachinist'', ChristianBale plays an anorexic insomniac who works heavy machinery. The BodyHorror starts with Bale's unrecognizably skeletal body, as he actually went and ''gave himself anorexia'' to play the part. Then, working at the factory, he accidentally makes a machine rip somebody's arm off. And ''then'', he [[spoiler: hallucinates about a man who has an equally mutilated hand, with his thumb replaced by a toe]].

* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWGKWkpC6ng Poultrygeist]]'' ({{NSFW}}) and its demon chicken egg breasts. There was a man with eggs where his nipples should be with demon chickens hatching from them. This is on top of normal zombie movie body horrors (only with chicken human zombie hybrids).

* {{Dagon}} (2001): The denizens of the town Imboca have overthrown Christianity in favour of the fish god Dagon, who has brought them wealth from the sea in the form of fish and gold. Since that time, they have mutated into fish-like forms and are obedient to the beautiful, mermaid-like Uxía.
* {{Sssssss}} have a man slowly turning into a snake.

* The ''Basket Case'' films, particularly the second, played this for squicky laughs.

* Neil Jordan's ''The Company of Wolves'' had some fairly gruesome [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Werewolf]] transformations, though the end results weren't monstrous.

* The ''{{Hellraiser}}'' Cenobites. Just because they get off on it, it doesn't mean it's any less body horror.

* ''{{Batman and Robin}}'' featured a painful transformation scene of the villain Bane, who grows ungodly huge muscles by having "Gatorade" pumped directly into his skull. This was intended as a family-friendly film, but was NightmareFuel for many children at the time.

* ''The Hunger'' has DavidBowie play a vampire who starts losing his immortality and starts aging during the middle of the film. [[spoiler:He doesn't lose his ''immortality'', just his ''youth''. Catherine Deneuve has a dozen former vampire lovers tucked away in coffins in one room of her apartment, all of them extremely old and [[AndIMustScream doomed to live as withered ancients forever.]] And a flashback suggests at least one of them has been that way since ''ancient Egypt.'' Gulp.]]

* [[FanNickname Burning Godzilla]] in the film ''{{Godzilla}} VS Destroyah''. His body is overheating from going into a meltdown from nuclear overload to the point where his flesh is now melting off of his body.

** It's also parodied in ''{{Spaceballs}}'' (which has John Hurt making an appearance as his character from ''Alien'' in it) in the scene at the diner where Lonestar and his chubby half-human/half-canine best pal/sidekick Barf are, Kane from ''Alien'' and some buddies are joking around when Kane suddenly feels ill ("Somebody give this guy some water! Water my ass, give him some Pepto Bismol!") and the same alien from the movie bursts out of his chest, but unlike in the movie ''Alien'', the chestburster alien puts on a straw hat, holds up a cane and starts singing ''Hello My Baby'' like Michigan J. Frog from ''LooneyTunes'' (even the voice).

* ''{{Underworld}}'' also pays homage to ''AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon''. The werewolf transformation is a direct reference to that movie.

* ''Nightbreed'' featured a litany of {{Body Horror}}s among the "monster" community, extreme enough to make Boone's excruciating transformation seem mild. Not directed by David Cronenberg, but he played the perfectly normal yet perfectly creepy villain, fighting the relatively sympathetic monsters.

** The scene where the Troll falls to the ground, rolls into a ball, has tentacles tear its pelt off, revealing pink pulsating muscle, and then two little dragon heads emerge is rather... gruesome.

* In DarioArgento's movie ''{{Phenomena}}'', the SerialKiller turns out to be [[spoiler:[[MadwomanInTheAttic a little boy (the son of the school's headmistress)]] with a hideously deformed face, who apparently likes to take out his anger at the world by killing people]].

* Some of PeterJackson's earlier movies like ''{{Braindead}}'', ''TheFrighteners'', ''BadTaste'' and ''MeetTheFeebles''.

* ''Film/CabinFever'' centers around a group of friends who go camping and contract necrotizing fasciitis... also known as ''flesh-eating bacteria''. Bloodiness certainly ensues. Its sequel, of course, takes this several steps further into ''HappyTreeFriends'' territory.

* The scarab beetles from ''[[TheMummyTrilogy The Mummy]]'' were NightmareFuel for this reason.

* John Carpenter's version of ''Film/TheThing'' is famous for having some of the most gruesome and disturbing transformation scenes in cinematic history. Being a horror movie this is its general intention, but it sometimes worked a little too well. Bonus: ParanoiaFuel.

* ''The Hunger'' has DavidBowie play a vampire who starts losing his immortality and starts aging during the middle of the film. [[spoiler:He doesn't lose his ''immortality'', just his ''youth''. Catherine Deneuve has a dozen former vampire lovers tucked away in coffins in one room of her apartment, all of them OlderThanDirt and [[AndIMustScream doomed to live as withered ancients forever.]] And a flashback suggests at least one of them has been that way since ''ancient Egypt.'' Gulp.]]

* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWGKWkpC6ng Poultrygeist]]'' ({{NSFW}}) and its demon chicken egg breasts. There was a man with egg where his nipples should be with demon chickens hatching from them. This is on top of normal zombie movie body horrors (only with chicken human zombie hybrids).

* ''Film/CabinFever'' centers around a group of friends who go camping and contract necrotizing fasciitis... also known as ''flesh-eating macteria''. Bloodiness certainly ensues. Its sequel, of course, takes this several steps further into ''HappyTreeFriends'' territory.

* ''TheLastCircus'' has one character mutilate his face with caustic soda and an iron to mimic a clown's makeup.

** Also parodied in the ''FamilyGuy'' episode "Petergeist", in which Peter peels off his face to become... [[spoiler: [[KingOfTheHill Hank Hill]].

* The guy just cannot catch a break: in the sequel, there's a scene in which he downs an entire bottle of tequila; upon swallowing the worm, he becomes a MeatPuppet for the BigBad. After he's been forced to abuse his family for a while, he then proceeds to vomit a large, tumorous worm-like THING that morphs into said big bad. Yeesh.

* ''DeathBecomesHer''. If it wasn't so funny it could be UnExample. Just imagine that you can [[spoiler:live forever, but you're not breathing, your heart's not beating and all of your traumas remain until you fix them artificially. As well as skin color and eyes.]]

* Mr. Creosote in ''[=~Monty Python's The Meaning of Life~=]'' probably counts. Swelling and bursting because of one last WaferThinMint, showering everything with the contents of the stomach and, because it was so explosive, having the ''entire front of his body blown off'', leaving only a pair of lungs and a beating heart.

* ''{{Underworld}}'' also pays homage to ''AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon''. The werewolf transformation is a direct reference to that movie. Curiously, since they're ConspicuousCGI, they're not nearly as Traumatic. Kind of boring, really.

* The 1997 abomination ''{{Batman and Robin}}'' featured a painful transformation scene of the villain Bane, who grows ungodly huge muscles by having "Gatorade" pumped directly into his skull. This was intended as a family-friendly film, but was NightmareFuel for many children at the time.

* ''The Hunger'' has DavidBowie play a vampire who starts losing his immortality and starts ageing during the middle of the film.
** Oh, it's even better than that: [[spoiler:he doesn't lose his ''immortality'', just his ''youth''. Catherine Deneuve has a dozen former vampire lovers tucked away in coffins in one room of her apartment, all of them OlderThanDirt and [[AndIMustScream doomed to live as withered ancients FOREVER.]] And a flashback suggests at least one of them has been that way since ''ancient Egypt.'' Gulp.]]
* In ''TheShining'', there is a scene where Jack Nicholson's character walks into the bathroom of the hotel and finds [[spoiler: a rather attractive looking naked woman in the tub, the woman comes out of the tub and she and Jack embrace- but as he's kissing her, the woman slowly turns into the rotting corpse of the much older woman who died in the tub. And then she starts laughing, taking it to higher levels of creepiness.]]

** Hank McCoy gets his turn in ''X-men: First Class''. Judging by the trailers, his transformation involves him gasping and struggling with his limbs as they turn blue and furry and all mutated.

** Not to mention what happened to one of the Zoanoids, who accidentally swallowed the Guyver after the heroes DisneyDeath. The other villains were planning to cut him open and get it back, before it went ChestBurster instead.

* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWGKWkpC6ng Poultrygeist]]'' ({{NSFW}}) and its demon chicken egg breasts. Having only seen that trailer I can't give any real context but there was a man with egg where his nipples should be with demon chickens hatching from them. This is on top of normal zombie movie body horrors (only with chicken human zombie hybrids).
** You only had to say "LloydKaufman" -- that's already synonymous with [=NSFW=] Body Horror.
* Dr. Jekyll´s very painfull transformation to Mr. Hyde in ''ThePagemaster'' [[NightmareFuel traumatized many children]] who saw this film. If the creepy, dark visuals aren't enough to scare you out of your mind, we also hear Jekyll screaming in agony and gasping for breath during the change. And then there's his Mr. Hyde form, which is more scaring than those all put together!

* ''Ame No Tori'' (The Vanished) - A little known Japanese horror based on a short story written by Hideyuki Kikuchi involving (undead?) children and a TownWithADarkSecret. A freelance writer for a lowbrow tabloid magazine visits a local town to investigate the mysterious case of a dead child whose internal organs are completely missing. While he is interviewing a doctor in the town morgue, the dead child suddenly jumps off the stretcher and runs away!

* Am I the only one who thought Bruce's transformation in the 2008 ''[[Film/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]]'' movie looked fairly horrific? Looking closely at the scene in the university lab with the [[spoiler:induced transformation,]] it looks as if his bones start growing to Hulk-size before the rest of his tissues. Um, ouch.

** What, no mention of the scene in the parlor? Where the mirror slithers out over Neo's hand covering him, then forcing its way down his throat?

* ''SilentHill'' had more than its share; the nurse near the end, the barb-wire dildo finale, the white things that spat acid, but my [[SarcasmMode favorite]] is probably when Pyramid Head ''rips the skin from a woman's body''...while she's ''still alive''!

** [[{{Metaphorgotten}} I think you sort of went off track there.]]

* Aronofsky's ''BlackSwan'' seems to be trying to rival Cronenberg in this aspect.

* ''{{Demoni}}''... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrUodmKHkgo&feature=related Just Demoni]].