[Ads-l] body horror

[Bill Mullins]

A subgenre of horror cinema mostly associated with the films of David Cronenberg and Clive Barker.


1988 Atlanta Journal 23 Dec 2C/1

With its demonic puzzle boxes (imagine a Rubik's cube whose solution opens the gates of Hades), punk ghouls from the fourth dimension (the fearsome Cenobites) and frenzied plasma fests (visit the butcher this week?), the movie aimed to take "body horror" to a higher, pulsating plateau.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/976986083/?match=1&terms=cronenberg%20%22body%20horror%22




1989 T. Milne (ed.) Time Out Film Guide 256

A disappointing sequel to Clive Barker's innovatory ‘body horror’ pic, which — while making some effort to flesh out the Cenobite mythology — simply performs cosmetic surgery on the original.

https://archive.org/details/timeoutfilmguide0000unse_u4n8/page/256/mode/1up?q=+%22body+horror%22




1989 North Mission News Mar 13/2

The most superficially normal of Cronenberg's films turns out to be his most deeply disturbing evocation of body horror and panic sex.

https://archive.org/details/northmissionnew1989unse_2/page/12/mode/1up?q=cronenberg+%22body+horror%22




1992 The Independent 24 Apr 16/6

Naked Lunch continues Cronenberg's steady progress away from body horror proper, and you suspect that many of his fans will be lost along the way.

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1995 M. Wynne-Davies The Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature xi

She is now working on body horror cinema, and writing a book on erotic thrillers.

https://archive.org/details/bloomsburyguidet00mari/page/n14/mode/1up?q=cronenberg+%22body+horror%22



2009 Austin Chronicle 25 Sept 50/2

Your film has a very unique feel to it, sort of a cross between the body horror of David Cronenberg and Rube Goldberg by way of Josef Mengele.

https://archive.org/details/The_Austin_Chronicle-2009-09-25/page/n49/mode/1up?q=cronenberg+%22body+horror%22





2010 Philadelphia City Paper 23 Sept 22/3

Plumbing levels of body horror that would do David Cronenberg proud, Aronofsky literalizes Portman’s inner transformation, a move that, as his movies often do, straddles the line between affectingly gonzo and merely over-the-top.
https://archive.org/details/Philadelphia_City_Paper-2010-09-23/page/n21/mode/1up?q=cronenberg+%22body+horror%22

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