History BodyHorror / LiveActionTV

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* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': The BloodierAndGorier adult SpinOff of ''Series/DoctorWho'', it dials this trope UpToEleven at times.

* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': In one episode Hilda was dating a man who didn't really listen to her, so she makes up a spell for him to "make him a better listener." The result? Her hapless ex wakes up the next morning and, to his great horror, discovers that he now has ears all over his head!

* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': In one episode Hilda was dating a man who didn't really listen to her. On their final date she secretly feeds him a potion to "make him a better listener." The result? Her hapless ex wakes up the next morning and, to his great horror, discovers that he now has ears all over his head!

* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': In one episode Hilda was dating a man who was inattentive towards her. On their final date she secretly feeds him a potion to "make him a better listener." The result? Her hapless ex now has ears all over his head!

* The third season of ''Series/StrangerThings'' is rich with this, much of it seemingly inspired by ''Film/TheThing1982''. The [[EldritchAbomination Mind Flayer]], seeking to find a way to kill Eleven so that it can safely return to our world, first possesses and kills a bunch of rats and then dissolves them to create a massive FleshGolem resembling its spider-like form. Then, it starts doing the same to humans, creating a HiveMind out of its victims before they too graphically dissolve into puddles of gore that merge with the monster and expand its size; if you look closely, you can see human body parts in the monster's mass of flesh. [[spoiler:The ending reveals that the Mind Flayer claimed thirty victims this way.]]

** The flayed look human even after possession, until the Mind Flayer forces their bodies to explode and slide/crawl to it in order to build its BodyOfBodies.

** Steve gets gnawed on by the flying creatures in the Upside Down. Shortly after escaping the things he and the others realize the wounds are growing and spreading when he nearly falls over when standing up.

[[caption-width-right:350:"[[Characters/DoctorWhoDavros I]] gave myself to "[[Characters/DoctorWhoDaleks them]]. Quite literally. Each one grown from a cell of my own body.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:"[[Characters/DoctorWhoDavros I]] gave myself to "[[Characters/DoctorWhoDaleks them]]. Quite literally. Each one grown from a cell of my own body.]]

* A few episodes of ''Series/MrMeaty'' have dealt with this. Often it's due to the poor quality of the fast-food restaurant's entrees. In one episode, Parker mooches off most of the other characters and then gets infected with ''a tapeworm'', "the ultimate moocher", ''[[spoiler:which is later eaten by a scientist who collects internal parasites.]]''

* ''Series/{{Rescue 911}}'': This show doesn't skimp out on showing the injuries during re-enactments and some can look pretty horrifying. "Bathtub Baby Burn" is a notable example where they actually show the baby's flesh being burned and his skin peeling off as he cries in pain.
* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': The heat-ray weapon used by Jan, Rachel's friend in "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia." Basically, it's a tightly-focused microwave-y beam that cooks the target. Alive, if need be. And when she uses it on two militia soldiers...hoo boy, is it nasty.

%%** "Skin" and "Metamorphosis".

* BodyHorror: "Itchy" deals with a young man with a chronic skin condition filming himself for his doctor, and he shows detailed closeups of the various rashes, boils, and lesions breaking out all over his body. [[spoiler:And that's before an alien creature bursts out of his abdomen]].

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E10JourneyToTheCentreOfTheTARDIS "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS"]]: The main cast is chased throughout the episode by humanoid zombie creatures that are completely charred and burned all over, which are revealed to be [[spoiler: future versions of the main cast that were burned alive by the Eye of Harmony]] and then proceed to run around the TARDIS, [[spoiler: chasing their past selves,]] in blind pain. It is also worth noting that two of the zombie creatures are [[https://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/doctor-who-journey-to-the-centre-of-the-tardis-promo-pics-30-570x321.jpg fused together at the sides]], and another one has its [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/809155189415346209/823682497728610365/unknown.png right hand fused to its face]]--covering it completely.

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* ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' has many forms show up. One murderess - one who thought she was being ''nice'' - turned one of her patients into a beehive and sent another out shambling after a DIY {{lobotomy}}.

** And then comes the 8th season first episode, where [[spoiler: Cuddy's kissing the scar on House's leg.]] It was like a scene from a movie by Creator/DavidCronenberg. Though, actually, it was quite delightful.

** ''Series/KamenRiderAgito'' has Ryo Ashihara/Kamen Rider Gills - while Gills isn't the only rider in the series to transform using mystical powers (in fact, everyone except for G3/G3-X transforms this way), unlike the other riders, his powers don't manifest as armor/clothes, but rather, his entire body gets turned into a monster.

** In the later episodes of season 7, the [[SyntheticPlague morphogenic virus engineered by Section 31]] causes Odo and the Female Changeling to physically deteriorate.

** The ruguru, a cannibalistic creature that starts out human, before abruptly developing hunger for everything - including human flesh. The body horror element kicks in when they begin their transformation into their final form as their bones move under their skin, and after they take just one bite of long pig ... urgh.

** In season 4, ''[[Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay Miracle Day]]'', the entire human race becomes functionally immortal, but still capable of feeling pain, getting sick or sustaining injuries. This provides ample opportunities for BodyHorror scenes, such as the suicide bomber reduced to a burnt (still conscious) crisp, the woman who gets crushed inside a car, the fact that deformed fetuses can no longer be miscarried or aborted, and the hundreds of [[spoiler:Category Ones incinerated alive]]...

** [[spoiler:Ruby and William/Abbey's]] later transformations is quite horrific, where their original forms slowly burst out from inside of their assumed ones, with the latter's skin being shed bloodily.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2 "Spyfall"]]: The [=MI6=] agent [[DeathInTheClouds attacked on a plane]] at the beginning turns out to have had her DNA scrambled to the point of becoming a brain-dead HumanoidAbomination. Judging by the Doctor's description of what happened to this poor woman, she's lucky she's unconscious. And this happened to ''all'' of the attacked spies.

** The Master in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin The Deadly Assassin]]" tried to regenerate [[CameBackWrong beyond his regeneration limit]]. He has become a rotted [[TechnicallyLivingZombie walking corpse]], in constant agonising pain, living only on [[ThePowerOfHate willpower and hatred]] as his body continues to disintegrate.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'': Did this at least once every season, plus it was at the center of TheMovie's plot.