Mutations and Metamorphoses: Body Horror is Biological Horror

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Article

Publication Date

2012

Abstract

Body horror, a genre trope that showcases often graphic violations of the human body, is also justifiably called biological horror. The true biological nature of the horror elicited by these films is here discussed in light of hybrids, metamorphoses, mutations, aberrant sex, and zombification.

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