History BodyHorror / Film

* In ''Film/FantasticFour2005'', Victor von Doom gets a shard of irradiated metal stuck in him, which causes his entire body to gradually turn into metal. Kind of done with Ben Grimm becoming the Thing, too, as well as Johnny becoming the Human Torch while snowboarding. "Johnny! You're on fire! ... No, you're ON FIRE!"
* ''Film/FantasticFour2015'' goes much, ''much'' further with the BodyHorror than its 2005 predecessor -- Creator/DavidCronenberg was named as one of the director's influences, and it really shows. The team's initial PowerIncontinence is played for horror, from Reed's grotesque, involuntary stretching and bodily distortion to Johnny repeatedly (and incredibly painfully) bursting into flames.

* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse''
** ''Film/IronMan1'':
*** When Tony wakes up in the cave[[note]][[MemeticMutation with a box of scraps]][[/note]], he tries to reach for a cup of water, only for something to snag when he rolls onto his side. He turns around to see that he's been attached to a ''car battery'', and when he rips the bandages off his chest, he sees the electromagnet ''embedded in his ribcage''.
*** There's also a scene where Pepper sticks her hand in the arc reactor's housing, showing just how deep in Tony's body this thing sits. The edge of it is level with his skin, but Pepper's hand goes in all the way to the wrist. This leads to some FridgeHorror when Tony gets it removed in ''Film/IronMan3'', as he's now walking around with a gaping hole where his sternum used to be.
** ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008'':
*** Bruce's transformation is 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.
*** The Abomination lives up to his name. Bruce at least manages to keep his bones in his skin, whereas the Abomination has several of them exposed, including a good portion of his ribcage.
** ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'':
*** The film gives us a [[SarcasmMode lovely]] slo-mo shot of Stephen Strange's horrific car crash, and close-ups of his bloody and battered body as he's rushed to the hospital. But the real clincher comes when he wakes up with ''twelve metal bars'' embedded in his hands. Even after he's fully healed, his hands -- aside from the nerve damage causing them to shake uncontrollably -- sport nasty scars all over them in all of his subsequent appearances.
*** When the Ancient One throws Stephen Strange across the multiverse, there is a lot of kinda disturbing Body Horror. For example, one dimension just consists of hands and when the hands touch Strange, his fingers developed mini hands and these hands also developed hands, which leaves a very disturbing image.
** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' offers a mild, even comedic, example of this trope, when Rocket, Yondu, Baby Groot and Kraglin do 700 straight hyperspace Jumps to Ego (50 is considered the safe maximum for mammals). Their faces start getting cartoonishly warped as they travel, but they are at least intact when when they arrive at their destination.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'':
*** Thanos uses the Reality Stone to foil an attack from Drax and Mantis by breaking Drax into a mishmashed pile of body parts and unwinding Mantis like a coiled spring, clinched by a close-up of Mantis' ''still-moving'' eye. They [[NoOntologicalInertia change back]] after he leaves, but it's still rather disturbing.
*** Then there's the ending, [[spoiler:where you get to watch almost all of your favorite superheroes graphically turn into dust and blow away. The effect wouldn't be so bad if they didn't keep their face and general shape moments before fully disintegrating]].
** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' shows how a [[{{Muggles}} vanilla human]] putting on the Infinity Gauntlet with all the Infinity stones will be like. Bruce Banner first puts on the gauntlet and once he [[BadassFingersnap snaps his finger to bring everyone]] BackFromTheDead, his right arm is completely withered and has become useless. [[spoiler:Then in the climax, Tony Stark puts on a makeshift gauntlet and does a BadassFingersnap of his own to [[NoBodyLeftBehind obliterate Thanos and his army]] and we see glowing energy sparks shooting out of the gauntlet ''into his face'' and other body parts, leaving nasty scars, and post snap, half of his body has burned and he can no longer form coherent sentences. [[TheHeroDies He succumbs to his injuries shortly afterwards]].]]

* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'': [[spoiler:Weapon XI, especially his [[WipeThatSmileOffYourFace mouthless]] face with perpetually open eyes.]]
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'':
*** Hank [=McCoy=]'s transformation sequence; the process is depicted as rather painful and horrific, bones, muscles and skin shifting and stretching while fur aggressively sprouts along his body.
*** The death of [[spoiler:Darwin.]]
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
*** Happens to Wolverine during the film's climax, when [[spoiler:Magneto impales him with several rebar pipes, entwining them within his flesh and leaving him to drown in the Potomac]].
*** Several of the deaths in the BadFuture. [[spoiler:First time out, Colossus has his head caved in ''whilst in his metal form'' and Iceman's head is snapped from the rest of his body in his frozen form, only for the events to later be undone. In the climax, Bishop explodes due to being "force-fed" too much energy, Colossus is ripped in two, Sunspot loses an arm, and Iceman has most of his torso vaporized.]]
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Angel's empowering by Apocalypse is surprisingly disturbing. He contorts his body while his wings twist and shift as they get embroidered in metal and a second, smaller pair grows, seemingly breaking part of his ribcage and skin. He's understandably screaming in pain throughout the whole transformation.

** The creation of "Evil Ash". It begins with an eye appearing on Ash's shoulder and progressing to a head, torso, and finally a separate body. That scene was scarier than most of the zombies! [[spoiler: Bonus NightmareRetardant when Evil Ash is knocked out and buried, although the beheading that ensues between those sequences are still scary]].

* ''Film/BruceAlmighty'': When Bruce meets God (played by Creator/MorganFreeman), he tries to have God guess the number of fingers behind his back. When God guesses "seven," Bruce only throws one of his hands out, changing as he brought them out. Shockingly, there are seven fingers on it, for a split second.

* Creator/DavidCronenberg, Toronto's creepiest son, is an acknowledged master of this trope. He isn't called the King of Venereal Horror for nothing.
** This was parodied when he appeared in the ''Radio/RoyalCanadianAirFarce'' Year 2000 special, selling a breakfast cereal called "Big Hairy Things."
** His directorial debut, ''Film/Shivers1975'', is a cross between a ZombieApocalypse, PuppeteerParasite, and an STD pandemic. Cronenberg refers to this trope interchangeably as "Body Horror" and "Venereal Horror".
** ''Film/TheBrood'' has a woman whose negative emotions are being expressed by [[TheHeartless giving virgin birth to extremely violent mutant children]].
** ''Literature/{{Crash}}'' is about people who are sexually aroused by car crashes. One female character has a scar on her leg that looks [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything amazingly vaginal]]. No points for guessing what happens during one particular sex scene.
** ''Film/EXistenZ'': Imagine having gooey [[BrainComputerInterface ports in your spine that tap into your nervous system]] to enable you to play virtual reality VideoGames. Now imagine that the device you port into is ''a living thing'' with a pulse and vaguely resembles a brain. (It's also edible, but that's [[LetsMeetTheMeat another trope]]...)
** In a deleted scene from the remake ''Film/TheFly1986'', Seth Brundle falls from the roof of his apartment building, and proceeds to [[spoiler:grow a fifth limb, which he then proceeds to break and chew off. The severed limb then twitches for several minutes, clearly still "alive"]]. Within the final cut, we have the almost cancerous growth of the mutant parts, pieces of him coming off, all those gooey fluids... Then there's the maggot dream. And [[Film/TheFlyII the sequel]] (which Cronenberg didn't write or direct) is ''even worse''.
** The duel from ''Film/{{Scanners}}'' makes one realize that PsychicPowers have ''way'' scarier combat uses than [[Franchise/StarWars choking people]]. Like ripping up their skin, [[EyeScream exploding their eyes]], and making their [[YourHeadASplode heads pop]] like stepped-on melons.
** ''Film/{{Videodrome}}'' presents a very bizarre, surreal, and often horrific use of BodyHorror. This includes everything from a man with an ''organic'' video cassette slot in his stomach (which is [[VaginaDentata a clear allusion to a vagina]]), to another man having countless tumors erupt from his stomach and head.
** Inverted in ''Film/EasternPromises'' by [[MundaneHorror depicting a normal human birth in the same lurid light.]]
** Some of the weirder scenes of his ''Film/NakedLunch'' movie edge into this ("Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk?"), but it's actually toned down from the book, where junkies deliberately allow their open wounds to fester so they can just put the heroin in with an eye-dropper.

** Kruger after [[spoiler: he gets over half his face blown off by a grenade]] on arrival at Elysium. [[MadeOfIron And he lives!]] We even get a real [[NauseaFuel nice look]] at the results, too, before he gets fixed up.
** Then we get a brief, quick glance of [[spoiler: Kruger getting the back of the skull interface for his Exosuit, forcibly ripped out by Max, and still going. OWWWWWW.]]

%% ZCE * Some of Creator/PeterJackson's earlier movies like ''Film/{{Braindead}}'', ''Film/TheFrighteners'', ''Film/BadTaste'' and ''Film/MeetTheFeebles''.

** Parodied in ''Film/{{Casper}}'', when Bill Pullman's character is possessed by Casper's three kooky uncles and turns into Clint Eastwood, Rodney Dangerfield, Mel Gibson, and The Crypt Keeper.
** Also parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Petergeist", in which Peter peels off his face to become... [[spoiler: [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill Hank Hill]]]].
--->Hehehhehe... ''propane!''

** And again to Officer Murphy in the [[Film/RoboCop2014 remake]]. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXOhIJg4B7k one of the most effective scenes in the movie]], Murphy gets to see just how much of his original body is left: his head, one hand, his lungs, and his heart. What he sees makes him want to kill himself, and only the wishes of wife and child get him to reconsider.

* In ''Film/TheShining'', there is a scene where Jack Torrence 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.]]

* For something similar to ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'' but slightly less squicky in that it [[spoiler: doesn't involve assholes]], see ''Film/Tusk2014'', about a madman sewing and mutilating somebody to turn them into a human walrus.

* For something similar to ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'' but slightly less squicky in that it [[spoiler: doesn't involve assholes]], see ''Film/{{Tusk}}'', about a madman sewing and mutilating somebody to turn them into a human walrus.

* ''Film/{{Freaks}}'' concludes with [[BeautyToBeast a character getting mutilated to look like a chicken]] as a KarmicTransformation, becoming TheFreakshow's newest member in the process. Unlike something like ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'' or ''Film/{{Tusk}}'', the mutilation itself happens offscreen, but it's nightmarish even without the gore. The unreleased original cut, which was deemed ''too'' disturbing and subsequently destroyed, included another character getting castrated and joining the sideshow as a soprano singer.[[note]]In RealLife, castration can't undo the effects of puberty if your voice has already changed, as was the case with the character in question. But hey, RuleOfScary and all.[[/note]] On the other hand, the movie goes out of its way to humanise the sideshow performers who are deformed to begin with, even though viewers may regard their bodies as horrific, with the [[AnAesop message]] that the real "freaks" were in fact the aforementioned ones, as they're ugly on the ''inside''.

* In ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'', the two boar spirits Nago and Okkoto end up like this, and it would apparently have been the eventual fate of Ashitaka as well.

* ''Film/TheHowling'' has another excellent werewolf transformation scene, with effects by ''The Thing'''s Rob Bottin.

%% ZCE: * The ''Film/BasketCase'' films, particularly the second, played this for squicky laughs.

** In ''Film/IronMan1'', when Tony wakes up in the cave[[note]][[MemeticMutation with a box of scraps]][[/note]], he tries to reach for a cup of water, only for something to snag when he rolls onto his side. He turns around to see that he's been attached to a ''car battery'', and when he rips the bandages off his chest, he sees the electromagnet ''embedded in his ribcage''.
*** This film also features a scene where Pepper sticks her hand in the arc reactor's housing, showing just how deep in Tony's body this thing sits. The edge of it is level with his skin, but Pepper's hand goes in all the way to the wrist. This leads to some FridgeHorror when Tony gets it removed in ''Film/IronMan3'', as he's now walking around with a gaping hole where his sternum used to be.
** Bruce's transformation in ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008'' is 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.
*** In this film, the Abomination lives up to his name. Bruce at least manages to keep his bones in his skin, whereas the Abomination has several of them exposed, including a good portion of his ribcage.
** ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'' has a [[SarcasmMode lovely]] slo-mo shot of Stephen Strange's horrific car crash, and close-ups of his bloody and battered body as he's rushed to the hospital. But the real clincher comes when he wakes up with ''twelve metal bars'' embedded in his hands. Even after he's fully healed, his hands -- aside from the nerve damage causing them to shake uncontrollably -- sport nasty scars all over them in all of his subsequent appearances.
*** When the Ancient One throws Stephen Strange across the multiverse, there is a lot of kinda disturbing Body Horror. For example, one dimension just consists of hands and when the hands touch Strange, his fingers developed mini hands and these hands also developed hands, which leaves a very disturbing image.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': Thanos uses the Reality Stone to foil an attack from Drax and Mantis by breaking Drax into a mishmashed pile of body parts and unwinding Mantis like a coiled spring, clinched by a close-up of Mantis' ''still-moving'' eye. They [[NoOntologicalInertia change back]] after he leaves, but it's still rather disturbing.
*** Then there's the ending, [[spoiler:where you get to watch almost all of your favorite superheroes graphically turn into dust and blow away. The effect wouldn't be so bad if they didn't keep their face and general shape moments before fully disintegrating.]]

** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' offers a mild, even comedic, example of this trope, when Rocket, Yondu, Baby Groot and Kraglin do 700 straight hyperspace Jumps to Ego (50 is considered the safe maximum for mammals.) Their faces start getting cartoonishly warped as they travel, but they are at least intact when when they arrive at their destination.

* Knifehead and Scunner from ''Film/PacificRim'', each have a pair of arms that look as if the bones in them are splitting apart.
** As well as the injuries the {{Kaiju}} suffer. For instance, [[FatBastard Leatherback]] gets its arm shot off by [[HumongousMecha Gipsy]] [[TheHero Danger]]. Then when they [[DoubleTap check for a pulse,]] they fire at it, igniting its organs and causing its ribcage to collapse.
*** And Otachi is no picnic either. Its chest gets carved like a chopping board thanks to [[MultiArmedAndDangerous Crimson]] [[SacrificialLion Typhoon]], and later gets its [[TongueTrauma tongue torn out]], and its PrehensileTail [[LiterallyShatteredLives frozen and shattered]].

*** Several of the deaths in the BadFuture. [[spoiler:First time out, Colossus has his head caved in ''whilst in his metal form'' and Iceman's head is snapped from the rest of his body in his frozen form, only for the events to later be {{defied}}. In the climax, Bishop explodes due to being "force fed" too much energy, Colossus is ripped in two, Sunspot loses an arm, and Iceman has most of his torso vaporized.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'': The scene where Pinocchio and Lampwick are transformed into donkeys is [[http://www.kindertrauma.com/?p=2401 especially shocking for its day and age]]. At least one analysis of Disney films revealed that Disney was specifically going for a horror film approach along the lines of Jekyll and Hyde.

* This may or may not happen to Pink in ''Music/TheWall''. During the [[EpicRocking guitar solo]] on "Comfortably Numb," Bob Geldof gets a creeping, fleshy, pinkish growth slowly spreading over his face, arms and chest. It gets to the point where he's fully covered and looks like the life-sized "Pink Doll" from the tour. As the solo comes to an end, the mummified creature tears its flesh off...and DarkLord Pink emerges from underneath, [[PuttingOnTheReich fully dressed and ready]].

* In ''Film/TheSwordAndTheSorcerer'', when [[EvilSorcerer Xusia]] [[spoiler:sheds his [[TheDragon Machelli]] disguise, quite literally.]].

** In ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', there's both Obi-Wan ripping open Grievous' chestplate, exposing all his organs, then [[spoiler: hooting them with a blaster and making his insides explode]] and also Vader, after being burnt alive and losing most of his limbs, climbing up the embankment with his robot arm.

* ''Film/TokyoGorePolice''. Imagine the two ''Tetsuo'' movies with pink flesh instead of metal, then add a ridiculous amount of {{Gorn}}.

* Aronofsky's ''Film/BlackSwan'' seems to be trying to rival Cronenberg in this aspect. Ballet is actually VERY physically demanding, and can take its toll on the body.
* In ''Blessed'', Heather Graham is impregnated with twin [[TheAntichrist antichrists.]]

* ''Film/{{Bug|2006}}'' and the stage play of the same name it is based on could be seen as a {{Deconstruction}} of body horror. The two leads become convinced they are playing host to billions upon billions of genetically engineered carnivorous aphids, [[spoiler:but who knows if it's actually happening or it's just a shared delusion?]]

** ''Film/{{eXistenZ}}.'' Imagine having gooey ports in your spine that tap into your nervous system to enable you to play virtual reality VideoGames. Now imagine that the device you port into is ''a living thing'' with a pulse and vaguely resembles a brain. (It's also edible, but that's [[LetsMeetTheMeat another trope]]...)

* ''Curse II: The Bite'' (an in-name-only sequel to ''Film/TheCurse'', a movie ''loosely'' based on Lovecraft's ''The Colour out of Space'') features a man bitten on the left hand by a snake, one implied to have been exposed to radioactive waste. At first, he just experiences some weakness and vomiting, but then his personality starts getting colder. When we see that his hand has mutated into a snake's head, and it kills two people (one by jamming itself down a police deputy's mouth & throat and tearing out his heart, the other by tearing a nurse's jaw off), he freaks out and chops it off. But it doesn't stop there -- another snake grows out of the stump and strangles a man with its super-long tongue (frog-snake?), then as he chases his girlfriend snakes begin ''bursting'' out of him. His left eye pops out, and snakes wriggle out of it as if it were some sort of egg. His tongue elongates and detaches, and wriggles after her. He vomits up three or four large snakes, before his mouth opens so wide his head splits in half and a giant snake (which appears to have his spinal column for a body) pops out and chases after the girl. Earlier, we see hints of the transformation trauma to come, in the form of a dog which had been bitten and [[NuclearMutant mutated into a snake-dog hybrid.]]

* ''Film/{{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.

->'''Scared Guard''': What madness is this?
* In the short movie ''Eleven'', by Makopictures, the main character attempts to con a futuristic adults-only hotel by skipping out without paying his bills. The company Pleasure Island, Inc. secretly infect him with nanodrones that cause him to [[GenderBender transform into a woman]]. Unlike a lot of gender-based transformations, there are several exterior and interior shots of the body during the transformation, showing mass alterations, cellular mutations, biological breakdowns, including a shot of his heart pumping faster and faster as it attempts to deliver adrenaline and blood to counteract what's happening to the host. When the body horror aspect finishes, the film switches to mental horror as the host tries to fight off what's happening mentally, but eventually his male psyche dies leaving a female personality behind.

* In the first ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' movie, Victor von Doom gets a shard of irradiated metal stuck in him, which causes his entire body to gradually turn into metal. Kind of done with Ben Grimm becoming the Thing, too, as well as Johnny becoming the Human Torch while snowboarding. "Johnny! You're on fire! ... No, you're ON FIRE!"
** ''Film/FantasticFour2015'' goes much, MUCH further with the BodyHorror - Creator/DavidCronenberg was named as one of the director's influences, and it really shows. The team's initial PowerIncontinence is played for horror, from Reed's grotesque, involuntary stretching and bodily distortion to Johnny repeatedly (and incredibly painfully) bursting into flames.

* Evil Ed's death in ''Film/FrightNight1985''.
* In ''Film/FromBeyond'', one of the main characters gets his head bitten off by fourth-dimensional eels and later shows up as a mass of pink goo with a face and tentacles. The other has his pineal gland extend through his forehead (the pineal gland is located near the back of the brain) and later [[spoiler: bitten off. The two merge during the final battle.]]

* ''The Guinea Pig'' series, in particular: Mermaid in a Manhole, where a man finds an injured mermaid in a sewer, takes her home with him, only for her to become horribly ill.
** The third film in the series, ''Shiver! The Man Who Never Dies'', deserves a mention too -- it takes everything up another notch, thanks to the protagonist finding out he can’t feel pain, then using his newfound ability to cut himself to pieces to get back at an old flame who abandoned him.

** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' shows Dovchenko being [[spoiler: eaten alive by army ants]].
* ''In My Skin'' (2002) is about a woman who develops a fascination with self-mutilation after an accidental injury, which ultimately leads to [[{{Autocannibalism}} self-cannibalism]].

* Some of Creator/PeterJackson's earlier movies like ''Film/{{Braindead}}'', ''Film/TheFrighteners'', ''Film/BadTaste'' and ''Film/MeetTheFeebles''.
* ''Film/{{Junior}}'': Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger [[MisterSeahorse pregnant]]. By Creator/DannyDeVito.
* ''Film/{{Killersaurus}}'': Being forcefully bioprinted into a human-dinosaur hybrid. [[spoiler:Just ask the Sargeant.]]

* In the 90's classic ''Film/LittleMonsters'', you can go to the "monster world" by use of portals under the bed. If you stay there long enough, you become a monster. Apparently, if you piss off Boy (the boss), his minion invokes a punishment that RIPS YOUR HEAD OFF AND PUTS IT IN A BASKET. He'll replace your headless corpse with a fake head, though. And apparently this does not kill you.

* ''The Manster'' is the source for ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'''s Evil Ash transformation idea. A slower transformation with lots of creepy goodness as the victim copes with different stages.

** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' shows how a [[{{Muggle}} Vanilla human]] putting on the Infinity Gauntlet with all the Infinity stones will be like. ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk first puts on the gauntlet and once he [[BadassFingersnap snaps his finger to bring everyone]] BackFromTheDead, his right arm is completely withered and has become useless. [[spoiler: Then in the climax, [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] puts on a makeshift gauntlet and does a BadassFingersnap of his own to [[NoBodyLeftBehind obliterate Thanos and his army]] and we see glowing energy sparks shooting out of the gauntlet ''into his face'' and other body parts, leaving nasty scars, and post snap, half of his body has burned and he can no longer form coherent sentences. [[TheHeroDies He succumbs to his injuries shortly afterwards]].]]

* ''Film/{{Matango}}'' is about a crew that eat mushrooms [[spoiler: that cause them to turn into giant mushroom creatures.]]

* ''Mum & Dad''. Disturbing torture all over the place. To scratch the surface, [[spoiler: a girl is put in a suitcase which is then hit repeatedly with a hammer. There's also a crucified man hanging on the kitchen wall]].

* ''The New Adventures of Pinocchio'' had Literature/{{Pinocchio}} (then a real boy) turn back into a puppet after signing a contract -- and Gepetto became a puppet as well. The end of the movie has The Showmaster turning into a sea monster.

* ''Film/{{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. All this is hardly surprising, considering that the movie is based on a book by ''Creator/CliveBarker.''

* ''Film/NobodySleepsInTheWoodsTonight'': The killer twins have boils covering their bodies. [[spoiler:This is likely a result of the twins being host to a black alien slime that took control of them from the space rock that they hid under their bed]].

* The '90s remake of ''Film/{{The Nutty Professor|1996}}'' has some surprisingly graphic transformation sequences.

*** And Otachi is no picnic either. Its chest gets carved like a chopping board thanks to [[MultiArmedAndDangerous Crimson]] [[SacrificialLion Typhoon]], and later gets its [[TongueTrauma tongue torn out]], and its PrehensileTail [[LiterallyShatteredLives frozen and shattered.]]
* PlayedForLaughs in ''ComicBook/{{Persepolis}}''. Marjane's description of the changes her body went through during puberty, and the associated images, have a a very BodyHorror feel to them.
* In Creator/DarioArgento's movie ''Film/{{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]].

-->Hehehhehe... ''propane!''

* Creator/JenniferTilly giving birth in ''Film/SeedOfChucky''.

* ''Film/{{Splinter}}'' (2008) has some good malformy body horror in it.
* ''Film/{{Sssssss}}'' has a man slowly turning into a snake.

* In ''Franchise/StarWars Episode III: Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' there's both Obi-Wan ripping open Grievous' chestplate, exposing all his organs, then [[spoiler: shooting them with a blaster and making his insides explode]] and also Vader, after being burnt alive and losing most of his limbs, climbing up the embankment with his robot arm.

* In ''Film/{{Sunspring}}'', H vomits up an eyeball at one point.

* In ''Film/TheSwordAndTheSorcerer'', when [[EvilSorcerer Xusia]] [[spoiler:sheds his [[TheDragon Machelli]] disguise]].

* The entire premise of ''Thanatomorphose'' is about a woman who begins to rot alive, starting as a few minor bruises, then slowly escalating to maggot-ridden brownish-red skin and her extremities breaking off. The entire movie is set in her apartment, which becomes just as diseased and filthy as she does. At the very end of the movie, [[spoiler:her body completely rots and melts away into a skeleton with bits of red flesh still clinging onto the bone, killing her.]]
* In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze'', the Shredder attempts a OneWingedAngel by drinking a cannister of "ooze." When he reemerges a few minutes later, he's at least a foot taller and has added about a hundred pounds of muscle. [[GoryDiscretionShot We don't see the transformation]], but the fact that his ShouldersOfDoom[=/=]SpikesOfVillainy have also grown exponentially and his black cloth outfit now appears hard and leathery implies that his costume ''is now a part of him.''

* A very {{Squick}}y Japanese film ''Film/TetsuoTheIronMan'' and its sequels push this trope to its extremes. The first film (which set the idea for the future films) is based around a man known as the "Metal Fetishist" (he has a fetish for ''sticking scrap metal into his body'') getting hit by a car and killed by a salaryman who then gets punished by ''having his flesh slowly turn into metal''.
* The title creature in Creator/JohnCarpenter's ''Film/TheThing1982'' embodies this trope. To describe it best, the Thing is a formless ([[Literature/WhoGoesThere at least in the films]]) monster that is capable of disguising itself as anything it consumes. The real body horror comes in when its cover is blown and it must defend itself/escape. And revealing itself ain't pretty, often with insect like limbs forcing themselves out, blood spewing everywhere, and bones and teeth created on the spot to chomp the nearest threat.
* ''Film/{{Thinner}}'' involves a very fat man rapidly losing weight due to a curse. Also contains a man who turns into a bipedal lizard (complete with scales and webbed fingers), and another who develops ''[[{{Squick}} rotting pits on his face.]]''
* What happens twice to Senator [=McComb=] in different time periods in ''Film/TimeCop'', [[spoiler:[[TimeParadox when they're in the same place in the same time]]. They're merging into one creature before turning into [[SpecialEffectsFailure living liquid]] which disappears out of space]].
* The French-Japanese-Korean film ''Tokyo!'' features a young woman slowly turning into a chair. It starts with a huge gaping hole in her abdomen, then later she is shown struggling to walk with her legs turned into wooden chair legs and her pelvis into a wooden seat. Finally, her hands also become chair legs and her head DISAPPEARS. The kicker? In the original comic book the movie is based on, the transformation is played for laughs.

* ''Film/{{Underworld|2003}}'' also pays homage to ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon''. The werewolf transformation is a direct reference to that movie.
* ''Film/{{Vagabond|1985}}'': Actually a very creepy version, since it's overtly realistic: a woman has fallen into depression and this appears to have physical ramifications on her body. Equally, she is unable to take complete care of herself and her physical deterioration has negative effects on her mindset. Eventually, she crumples into sleep in the woods... the final product was actually the film's opening scene, starting a "how we got here" plot, and it's a mangled, wasted, frozen and to some extent disturbed body.
* ''Ame No Tori'' (The Vanished) -- 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!
* ''Film/VirusShark'': Infection by [[TheVirus [=SHVID=]-1]] causes discoloration of the skin, and lesions to appear on the host body. [[spoiler:Prolonged infection causes the host to mutate into a Marauder.]]
* This may or may not happen to Pink in ''Film/TheWall''. During the [[EpicRocking guitar solo]] on "Comfortably Numb," Bob Geldof gets a creeping, fleshy, pinkish growth slowly spreading over his face, arms and chest. It gets to the point where he's fully covered and looks like the life-sized "Pink Doll" from the tour. As the solo comes to an end, the mummified creature tears its flesh off...and DarkLord Pink emerges from underneath, [[PuttingOnTheReich fully dressed and ready]].

* The 1988 film ''Film/{{Willow}}''. The climactic battle lingers on the main characters undergoing a slow, painful transformation into pigs, while the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen evil queen]] taunts them. The scene where the Troll falls to the ground, rolls into a ball, has tentacles tear its pelt off, revealing brown slimy pulsating muscle, and then two little dragon heads emerge is rather... gruesome. Willow's repeated attempts to return Razel to human form are implied to not be pleasant experiences for her, either.

* In ''Film/TheWraith'', the body of every person the titular character kills shows up with their corpse relatively intact, but deathly pale, cold and [[EyeScream without their eyes.]] Sheriff Loomis and his deputy Murphy are more freaked out by the fact that these bodies are like that even though they were the result of a car falling over a cliff and exploding.