Special Issue #9
Artwork by Andrew Foley
Body Horror
Essay Collection
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Contemporary Body Horror: On the Rise of Metamorphic Corporeality
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Real Women Have Body Horror
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Vulnerability of the Female Corpse
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Slaughter, Reproduction, and Surrogacy in Agustina Bazterrica’s Tender is the Flesh
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A Goddess Revived, A Body Refined: Transformative Inhabitation in V. Castro’s Goddess of Filth
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Eat Your Heart Out: Cannibalism as Body Horror and the Appetite for Agency
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“The Little People, They’re Fucking Dolls!”: The Doll/Human Hybrid in Stuart Gordon’s Dolls
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“The real savage animals are the human beings”: Genre-bending and Complicit Exploitation in Kevin Smith’s Tusk
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The Fecund and Formless Mother: Gendered Technologies of Ecophobia in FromSoftware Games
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On the Horror of Bodies: Thermal Gazes, Predator Drones and Infrared Blobs
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Car Troubles: The Autophilia of Titane
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Visions of Mutation: Scientific Discovery in The Fly
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“Open Wide”: Oral Mutilation and the Stench of Decay in Brian Yuzna’s The Dentist (1996) and The Dentist 2 (1998)
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Proper Care and Feeding of Your Human: Body Farming Films
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Monstrous Bioengineering and Horrifying “Transplants” in Farmhand (2018-present)
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Eat Your Words: The Language of Flesh and Family in Agustina Bazterrica’s Tender is the Flesh (2017)
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“What If I Really Was Someone Else?”: Black Trans Body Horror in I Saw the TV Glow