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20	* ''Anime/BioHunter'' wears BodyHorror as its hat, dealing with a virus that mutates its victims into ravenous monsters. The first scene in the anime features a sex scene in which a woman's breast ''grows teeth and eats a man's hand''. VaginaDentata is thankfully averted.
21	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'': Snatcher's "Cheese Fits" cause him to swell up horribly. The first and more moderate one begins with moving yellowish bulges growing on his neck, followed by his lip growing large and protruding, the right side of his face swelling so badly that his eye becomes entirely shut, and his hands swelling to over twice their normal size. His more extreme one at the end, after he falls bodily into a large well of his cheese, has him so swollen and deformed that he looks more like some kind of ogre than a man, with all of his limbs swollen and enlarged and his face half covered by a huge cauliflower-like growth.
22	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': The longer Miguel stays in the Land of the Dead, the more his skeleton transformation takes effect. It's funny at first, but becomes rather disturbing when it spreads to his torso, as told by Ernesto's reaction. It's rather terrifying when it's nearly complete, just before Imelda and Héctor send him home with their blessing.
23	* ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeTheMovie'' has a lot of this. We've got Cobra Commander being revealed [[spoiler:as an already somewhat disfigured snake person with multiple eyes (bonus points to the cartoon for hinting at it when Destro was taken aback when walking in on the Commander eating in one episode)]] and [[spoiler:mutated further, first bursting out of his uniform as his limbs start to bulge and fail, then into a large humanoid snake with vestigial arms, then into a human-sized snake]], a hidden civilization based on particularly nasty organic technology, and spores that look to rather painfully mutate all of humanity. There's also "Onccccce... wasssss a man..."
24	* ''WesternAnimation/ILostMyBody'' is about a cut hand that comes to life and seeks for its former owner. We learn through flashbacks about his life and how his right hand was cut off.
25	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePagemaster'': Dr. Jekyll's very painful transformation to Mr. Hyde traumatized many children who saw this film. If the creepy, dark visuals aren't enough to scare you out of your mind, we also hear Jekyll screaming in agony and gasping for breath during the change. And then there's his Mr. Hyde form, which is scarier than those all put together!
26	* 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.
27	* In ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'', the two boar spirits Nago and Okkoto end up becoming demons, who grow worms out of their skin, and it would apparently have been the eventual fate of Ashitaka as well.
28	* ''WesternAnimation/SevTrekPusInBoots'' spoofs the use of this trope on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' with an alien growing from a [[RiseOfZitboy zit on Commander Riker's forehead]]. While the crew waste their time debating whether Riker's right to maintain his good looks overrules the PC Directive to respect all sentient life, the creature detaches and goes rampaging around the ship, murdering 47 [[RedShirt expendable ensigns]] in the process.
29	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', 4*Town is depicted as unnerving PlantPeople in Mei's nightmare.
30	* ''Anime/UnicoInTheIslandOfMagic'' has a puppet-master villain with bug eyes and the ability to distort his shape at will, as well as plenty of terrifying transformations. The villain's castle is built out of people who have been transformed into blocks and there's a creepy dream sequence where Unico and his friends are turned into dolls.
31	* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': Every single time a Cy-Bug eats since they become what they eat. Especially after eating King Candy during the climax. Now he truly looks like a freakish monster.
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36	* 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".)
37	** 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".
38	** ''Film/TheBrood'' has a woman whose negative emotions are being expressed by [[TheHeartless giving virgin birth to extremely violent mutant children]].
39	** 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.
40	** ''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.
41	** In a DeletedScene from ''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. [[Film/TheFlyII The sequel]] (which Cronenberg didn't write or direct) is ''even worse''.
42	** Some of the weirder scenes of ''Film/NakedLunch'' edge into this ("Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk?"), but it's actually toned down from [[Literature/NakedLunch the book]], in which junkies deliberately allow their open wounds to fester so they can just put the heroin in with an eye-dropper.
43	** ''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.
44	** ''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]]...)
45	** Inverted in ''Film/EasternPromises'', which [[MundaneHorror depicts a normal human birth in the same lurid light]].
46	%% ZCE * Some of Creator/PeterJackson's earlier movies like ''Film/{{Braindead}}'', ''Film/TheFrighteners'', ''Film/BadTaste'' and ''Film/MeetTheFeebles''.
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48	* ''Film/TwentyOneJumpStreet'': [[BigBad Mr. Walters]] gets his [[GroinAttack dick shot off]] by Schmidt. In the [[Film/TwentyTwoJumpStreet sequel]], he gets a vagina transplant (not that he minds it). [[spoiler:It becomes a home game.]]
49	* ''Film/AfterEarth'': The slug-like creature that bites Kitai and causes a gruesome infection.
50	* ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'':
51	** ''Film/{{Alien}}'': The famous chestburster scene, where the infant creature tears its way out of its host human's ribcage. The original concept of the Alien lifecycle (which appears in the Director's Cut of ''Alien'', but is non-canonical since it contradicts ''Film/{{Aliens}}'') involved capturing victims and turning them into new facehugger eggs.
52	** ''Film/AlienResurrection'': Ripley's cloning process went wrong many times before, creating diseased and barely functioning human-alien hybrids. The opening title sequence shows some of them in extreme closeup.
53	** ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' creates a whole new variety of body horror with Freudian symbolism: [[spoiler:The "Space Jockeys" from the original film created a black substance that causes severe mutations when ingested. One character starts to physically decay, his skin turning charred-black. Before that can happen, he has sex with his (infertile) girlfriend, who gives birth to a squid monster the following day. In the end of the movie, the squid monster captures the last remaining Space Jockey alive and uses its body to spawn something that looks like a more primitive version of the series' iconic monster.]]
54	** ''Film/AlienCovenant'' offers us a new horror: The Neomorph, an impish Xenomorph that is birthed not through the chest like the traditional chestburster, but instead through ''the back''. And if it can't go through there, it'll go out the other way: ''Through the mouth''. And to say nothing of the actions committed by [[spoiler:David]], in which he causes a full on Pompeii-esque apocalypse using the black goo on [[spoiler:the Engineer colony]] or what he does to poor [[spoiler:Shaw]], whom he turns into what amounts to a Giger painting/Petri dish for his experiments.
55	* ''Film/Alien2OnEarth'': Just like the Xenomorphs, for whom they serve as {{exp\|y}}ies, the rock creatures lay their eggs in host bodies and literally burst from them once they have outlived their purpose.
56	* ''Film/AlienAbduction2014'': The abductions of Jillian and Sean -- the only two seen on-camera -- are accompanied by the visible breaking of their spines and arms as they are levitated within a tractor beam.
57	* ''Film/AmeNoTori'' (''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!
58	* ''Film/AmericanMary'' features a dark slasher vibe of surgery called body modification. The title character at one point uses this surgery to make a stripper into a human doll so she won't be sexualized and later, uses said surgery to get revenge on her rapist.
59	* ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'' Contains one of the finest of all scary PainfulTransformation sequences. Referenced (arguably an AffectionateParody, because the director is the same) in the beginning part of ''Thriller'', where Music/MichaelJackson turns into a cat monster. And poor Jack becomes more and more zombie-like in appearance each time he reappears.
60	* ''Film/AntiChrist'' depicts themes of body/self hatred/fear, mutilation, and fear of human nature.
61	* ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'':
62	** 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.]]
63	** In ''ComicBook/FreddyVSJasonVSAsh'', Ash has a nightmare echoing the events from ''Evil Dead 2'' except his bad hand sprouts metal claws from the fingertips, his fingernails being forced out of the way by the claws being drawn with loving, gory detail.
64	* ''Film/TheAssignment2016'': Being made physically female serves as this for Frank, especially at first.
65	* ''Film/AttackOfTheMoonZombies'' has people being transformed into zombies by alien plants.
66	* ''Film/BangBangBaby'' has elements of this, as a chemical leak in the small town setting is said to cause mutations in humans and wildlife: The protagonist, a secretly-pregnant teenager, finds her unborn baby is actively running around in her stomach and its outline can be seen in her skin as it does. Her would-be suitor has a mouth-shaped abscess on his neck that talks (and ''sings'', since it's also a musical). Perhaps most disturbingly, her alcoholic father has a liquor bottle embedded in his chest, and attempts to cut his own stomach open to get it out until his daughter gets him to stop by convincing him he's imagining things.
67	* ''Film/BansheeChapter'': James's clothes are located at the transmission site, where Anne and Thomas were attacked by deformed monsters. This gives a big clue as to what happens to those possessed by the transmission.
68	* ''Film/BasketCase'' has its poster child, Belial Bradley, a deformed tumorous lump of flesh with a face and two small arms that his brother Duane carries around in a picnic basket. The sequel, ''Basket Case 2'', introduces more characters with bizarre and extreme deformities, though the tone is more PlayedForLaughs.
69	* ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' featured a painful transformation scene of the villain Bane, who grows ungodly huge muscles by having "Gatorade" pumped directly into his skull. This was intended as a family-friendly film.
70	* ''Film/{{Bite}}'' has a bride-to-be being bitten by a waterborne insect while vacationing in Costa Rica, infecting her with a mutagenic virus that slowly transforms her into a human-insect hybrid.
71	* ''Film/BlackFriday2021'': Infection by the alien [[TheVirus virus]] can start with things like the host breaking out in boils all over their body. In time, though, their teeth all grow [[ScaryTeeth sharper]], their noses disappear, and they turn into feral monsters. [[spoiler:And then there's the huge monster that forms when they all fuse together.]]
72	* ''Film/BlackSheep2007'' pays homage to ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'' when the farmer turns into a weresheep. The company behind this movie is also in talks to do an ''American Werewolf'' remake.
73	* ''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.
74	* In ''Film/{{Blessed}}'', Heather Graham is impregnated with twin [[TheAntichrist antichrists.]]
75	* In the [[NeverTrustATitle nonsensically-titled]] ''Film/BlueMonkey'', a man pricks his finger on a mysterious plant from a recently-discovered island, causing a parasitic insect to begin growing inside of him, ''Film/{{Alien}}''-style. After developing a fever and collapsing, he is rushed to the hospital, whereupon he regurgitates a squirming insect larva which ends up becoming the main monster in the movie. As if this wasn't bad enough, the man survives, but with a highly-contagious disease which begins melting his skeleton, causing him to go into cardiac arrest as the liquefied bone matter floods his circulatory system. When doctors attempt to revive him using defibrillators, his chest explodes in a shower of blood, drenching the terrified physicians. {{Squick}} indeed.
76	* ''Film/BodyBags'': The "Hair" segment features a balding man who gets a hair transplant. When the transplanted hair starts spreading out of control and he starts feeling a bit sickly, he goes back to the clinic to complain, only to find that the "hair" is actually the larva of an alien species that require living hosts to mature properly. The aliens, naturally, decided to play on human vanity to get volunteers.
77	* ''Film/BodyMelt'': The title is a pretty apt description - people's bodies melt, deform, mutate and such things as a mutant face-hugger placenta and living mucus are involved as people die gruesomely. The BlackComedy elements might only make things more jarring and bizarre.
78	%% ZCE * Also from the same director ''Film/BrainDamage'' is full of body horror.
79	* ''Film/Bug2006'' and the stage play 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?]]
80	* ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm'': The way how Sasha gets transformed into the Gingerbread Man, with her first loosing her face to some cursed mud then finally being fully covered in mud finishing her transformation, and to add the cherry on top she takes a bite out of her arm saying she's delicious.
81	* ''Film/BruceAlmighty'': When Bruce meets God, 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.
82	* ''Film/CabinFever'' centers around a group of friends who go camping and contract necrotizing fasciitis... also known as ''flesh-eating bacteria''. Bloodiness certainly ensues. Its sequel takes this several steps further into ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' territory.
83	* ''Film/CallOfTheUndead'': When the Mob Boss finally succumbs to his infection, his arms swells up and gets covered in tumorous growths, and possibly large red blood cells hanging loose.
84	* ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' has Violet come out looking all floppy and blue-skinned, as a result of being turned into a giant blueberry and de-juiced. She doesn't seem to mind that she's more flexible than before, though. The scene of her transformation is also presented more as a horror than in the previous film.
85	* ''Film/ClassOfNukeEmHigh'': Plenty, given [[Creator/{{Troma}} who made the movie]]. In the prologue, we see a nerdy-looking student who drank from a contaminated drinking fountain start acting erratically, attack one of the other students, and then throw himself out of a second-story window before melting on the pavement.
86	** ''Film/ClassOfNukeEmHighPartIISubhumanoidMeltdown'': After an unspecified amount of time has passed, a subhumanoid will start foaming at the mouth, start attacking people, and then fall to the ground and melt down into a creature that looks like [[Film/TheDarkCrystal Fizzgig]] covered in green goo.
87	* ''Film/CloudAtlas'': Ewing's parasite. [[spoiler:Subverted. He's actually being poisoned, though the results of that aren't pretty either.]]
88	* ''Film/TheCompanyOfWolves'' has some fairly gruesome [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Werewolf]] transformations, though the end results weren't monstrous.
89	* ''Film/{{Contracted}}'': Both this film and its sequel, ''Contracted: Phase II'', deal with a necrotizing STD that physically rots its host within days before turning them into zombies. This is a given. People bleed from their genitals profusely at first, then develop [[TaintedVeins black veins]] showing through their skin, develop [[RedEyesTakeWarning bloodshot eyes]], lose fingernails, begin to visibly rot and finally have [[BlankWhiteEyes milky white eyes]] and then go full zombie after that.
90	* ''[[Film/CurseIITheBite 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 [[NuclearMutant 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 mutated into a snake-dog hybrid.
91	** Makeup effects were done by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screaming_Mad_George Screaming Mad George]], who also did the makeup effects for ''The Guyver'', ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster'', ''Film/BrideOfReAnimator'', ''Film/{{Society}}'', and ''Film/{{Wishmaster}}''. They know Body Horror.
92	* ''Film/{{Dagon}}'': 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.
93	* [[spoiler:Osmar]] in ''Film/{{Damnatus}}'', after being {{Mind Rape}}d by a daemon. The fact that his stammered prayers start manifesting VoiceOfTheLegion is the first bad sign. He primes a grenade to commit suicide, but before it goes off there is a brief shot of him collapsing and starting to grow tentacles.
94	* ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'': Played for (grim) laughs. Just imagine that you can [[spoiler:live forever, but you're not breathing, your heart's not beating and all of your traumas remain until you fix them artificially. As well as skin color and eyes.]]
95	* ''Film/DeathShip'': After consuming a piece of hard candy from one of the ship's cupboards, Ms. Morgan's skin suddenly blisters beyond recognition. Panicking, she heads for the bunk room, where the [[DemonicPossession now-possessed]] Capt. Ashland strangles her to death.
96	* ''Film/{{Demons}}'' has several people being invited to go watch a new horror movie... Only to have members of the audience start mirroring the events in the movie and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrUodmKHkgo&feature=related turn into demons]].
97	* ''Film/District9'': [[spoiler:After accidentally spraying himself with an alien substance,]] Wikus experiences increasingly disturbing kinds of this. First, he only experiences a nosebleed [[spoiler:but of ''black blood'']], which is immediately dwarfed by [[FinGore his fingernails]] [[spoiler:falling off]]. After vomiting [[spoiler:black goo]] and passing out at a party, he goes to a hospital, where a doctor removes the bandages on his arm [[spoiler:to discover that it has outright mutated into that of a prawn's]], and Wikus is ''absolutely terrified''. To make it worse, in reaction to what's happening to him and going slowly insane, Wikus decides to take matter in his own hands and [[spoiler:''chops off a finger of the new arm'', presumably with the intention of eventually removing all of it]]. Apparently, the pain makes him come back to his senses.
98	* PlayedForLaughs in one scene of ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves'': Simon casts an illusion spell of Edgin playing the lute to distract some guards, but his concentration begins to break when his foot gets stuck in the road. As the real Edgin and Holga try to free his foot, the illusory Edgin begins to glitch out, going from repeating itself like a broken record to unnervingly morphing: eyes bulging and going off-center, jaw jutting out to the side, head shrinking back into the torso, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the lute handle sagging like a deflating balloon]].
99	-->'''Scared Guard:''' What madness is this?
100	* In the short movie ''Film/{{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.
101	* ''Film/{{Elysium}}'':
102	** Max's PoweredArmor is grafted directly onto his bones and tied into his into his nervous system and brain, which means the pain is probably a lot worse than it might seem at first.
103	** 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.
104	** 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]].
105	* A theme in ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}''. It starts with Bill complaining about problems in his knees and wrists, and then moves up to the creepy "manmade" chickens, and we end up with The Lady in the Radiator's horrifically distended cheekbones, the burnt skin of The Man in the Planet, and [[CreepyChild The Baby]]. There's also a certain {{Squick}} factor to realizing a human being was pregnant with that thing.
106	* ''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/Tusk2014'', 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''.
107	* ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' has Jason Voorhees, who has always been hideous-looking due to his cranial deformities. The body horror gets worse for him once he is brought back from the dead in ''Part VI'', when he is shown as a maggot-infested revenant. It gets even worse in ''Part VII'': due to being trapped at the bottom of a lake at the end of the previous movie, Jason's body has decomposed to the point where parts of his skeleton can be seen. By ''The Final Friday'' and ''Jason X'', he has been wearing his iconic hockey mask for so long that his skin has started to grow around it, essentially fusing it to his face (and that's before becoming the cybernetic abomination that is "Uber Jason").
108	* In ''Film/FriendOfTheWorld'', zombie-like creatures merge with the living.
109	%% ZCE * Evil Ed's death in ''Film/FrightNight1985''.
110	* 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 [[PinealWeirdness 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]].
111	* ''Film/GingerSnaps'' tells a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything lycanthropy-as-a-metaphor-for-puberty]] story of a teenaged girl who is bitten by a werewolf, and subsequently begins a slow transformation into a wolf. In one memorable scene, she attempts to cut off her own tail (which, at that point, is hairless and half-developed) with a kitchen knife.
112	* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'':
113	** Burning Godzilla in the film ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah''. His body is overheating from going into a meltdown from nuclear overload to the point where his flesh is now melting off of his body. Even worse when he dies. He actually cries in agony because he's in so much pain.
114	** [[Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah The Heisei incarnation]] of King Ghidorah falls under this. Imagine being [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131211025711/godzilla/images/1/18/Super_Cute_Dorat.jpg three cute little pets]] created to be friendly companions being mutated and fused-together into [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140228211635/godzilla/images/1/1d/King_Ghidorah_91.jpg a single three-headed dragon]]. What's worse is he survives having his head ripped off and gets transformed into [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130804024739/ultra/images/d/d8/Mecha-King-Ghidorah.jpg Mecha-King Ghidorah]]
115	** Godzilla himself. Sure, we don't actually see the mutation happen itself. But, compare what [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090411021221/godzilla/images/c/ce/Godzillasaurus.jpg he used to look like]] to [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100505131523/godzilla/images/f/f8/89Godzilla.jpg what he]][[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140331193105/godzilla/images/9/95/GVB_-_Godzilla_Head_Shot.jpg mutates into]], and it's evident it was not a pleasant experience for him.
116	** The ''Film/ShinGodzilla'' version of Godzilla is in pain from just existing, given the visable keloid scars; glowing, open wounds; shiveled, short arms; jagged, crooked teeth growing out of his mouth; a variety of skeletons merged at the end of his tail; and barely able to open his mouth far wider than it should. Additionally, there's its "Kamata-kun" and "Shinagawa-kun" form, the former spilling blood everywhere and no arms, the latter having budding arms, and both having dead eyes and a scaleless appearance.
117	%%** Godzilla from the ''[[Film/Godzilla1954 original film]]''
118	* The ''Guinea Pig'' series, in particular ''Mermaid in a Manhole'', in which 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.
119	* ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'': The first transformation sequence. Right before the [[FinalBoss big bad]] shows up when the guy they are trying to rescue... well, it doesn't turn out so well for him. PainfulTransformation doesn't even begin to describe it. What happens to one of the Zoanoids, who accidentally swallowed the Guyver after the heroes DisneyDeath. The other villains were planning to cut him open and get it back, before it went ChestBurster instead.
120	* The ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'' Cenobites. Every last one of them is utterly ''mutilated'' in a unique way, often still bearing the implements needed to both mangle them and keep them mangled; the transformation being unfathomably painful is a fundamental part of the process. Just because they get off on it, it doesn't mean it's any less body horror.
121	* ''Film/{{Horrorvision}}'': The {{Cyborg}} overseeing the original computers of Horrorvision is [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe missing the lower half of his body]], has multiple large diodes in his head, and has pale white skin with black vein lines all over him.
122	* ''Film/TheHowling1981'' has an excellent werewolf transformation scene, with effects by ''The Thing'''s Rob Bottin. The full transformation is quite horrifying to look at, with bubbling skin, snapping bones, contorting facial features etc. No wonder Karen got PTSD after witnessing Eddie turning into a werewolf.
123	* Played for (dark) laughs in ''Film/HowToGetAheadInAdvertising'', in which the titular Head grows out of a stress-related boil on the protagonist's shoulder.
124	* ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'': How else do you explain [[spoiler:a MadScientist mutilating you and sewing your mouth to someone else's asshole, and sewing someone else to ''your own'' anus]]?
125	* ''Film/TheHunger'' has Music/DavidBowie play a vampire who starts losing his immortality and starts aging during the middle of the film. [[spoiler:He doesn't lose his ''immortality'', just his ''youth''. Catherine Deneuve has a dozen former vampire lovers tucked away in coffins in one room of her apartment, all of them extremely old and [[AndIMustScream doomed to live as withered ancients forever.]] And a flashback suggests at least one of them has been that way since ''ancient Egypt.'' Gulp.]]
126	* Once the tracker jackers are done with Glimmer in ''Film/TheHungerGames'', her grotesquely bloated and nigh-unrecognizable face is ''[[NightmareFuel horrific]]'' to look at.
127	* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'':
128	** In ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', [[spoiler:Dietrich's head shrivels up, Toht melts and Belloq's head explodes.]]
129	** In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', a slave [[AndShowItToYou has his heart ripped out]] by [[BigBad Mola Ram]], and the horror doesn't stop there. Due to the supernatural nature of the HumanSacrifice ceremony, the victim stays alive until being lowered into a lava pit, at which point his [[BeatStillMyHeart still-beating]] heart burns to a crisp like the rest of him. Did we mention the movie is rated ''PG''?
130	** In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', Donovan [[spoiler:drinks from the fake Holy Grail and subsequently ages centuries in a matter of moments. He is still conscious and aware as his eyes and flesh ''visibly rot''; he even tries to attack Elsa in his last moments, realizing she lied to him.]]
131	** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' shows Dovchenko being [[spoiler:eaten alive by army ants]].
132	* ''Film/InMySkin'' (2002) is about a woman who develops a fascination with self-mutilation after an accidental injury, which ultimately leads to {{autocannibalism}}.
133	* The mutant cow in ''Film/{{Isolation}}'' is barely even recognizable as a cow at all, save for its head resembling a deformed calf skull. Most of its body is a jumbled exoskeletal mess, and it appears to walk on its ''external ribs'' like some kind of bovine centipede.
134	%% * ''Film/{{Junior}}'': Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger [[MisterSeahorse pregnant]]. By Creator/DannyDeVito.
135	* ''Film/{{Killersaurus}}'': [[spoiler:The Sargeant]], after getting trapped in the printing room with the dinosaur, forcefully has dinosaur DNA zapped into him by the laser bioprinter. When he comes out, he has claw hands, reptilian skin, and sharp teeth.
136	* ''Film/TheLastCircus'' has one character mutilate his face with caustic soda and an iron to mimic a clown's makeup.
137	* In ''Film/TheLastWitchHunter'':
138	** Kaulder breaks his hand by ripping it through handcuffs that should be too small for it and we get to watch as all those little bones reset themselves with skin moving in manner reminescent of something crawling underneath it. All with those sickening sounds.
139	** When Chloe's breaks Danique's youth charm, the older sorceress literally sheds her skin. It comes off in huge patches, revealing an ugly old crone underneath, part by part.
140	* In ''Film/LChangeTheWorld'', Maki's dad injects himself with a large amount of a lethal virus that causes him to break out in boils and bleed from everywhere, and is simultaneously fried to death by K.
141	* In ''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.
142	* Future [[spoiler:Seth Richards]] in ''Film/{{Looper}}'' tries to make his escape until parts of him start to disappear, because the men holding his past self captive have started to mutilate him. It starts with his fingers... then his nose... then his legs...
143	* ''Film/{{Malignant}}'' has its villain, [[spoiler:a vestigial twin of the protagonist, albeit a very fully-formed one, coming out of his sister's back, complete with a face and arms. It goes further even after most of his physical body is destroyed, as he grotesquely contorts his sibling's limbs whenever he's using them. His face itself is merely a snarling, misshapen mouth and eyes that are set at haphazard angles.]]
144	* ''Film/TheManster'' 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.
145	* In ''Film/MaryReilly'', John Malkovich undergoes one of the most gruesome and spectacular Jekyll/Hyde transformations ever committed to screen, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM2gmu8TZdU with Jekyll appearing inside Hyde's body and growing outwards.]]
146	* ''Film/{{Matango}}'' is about a crew who eat mushrooms [[spoiler:that cause them to turn into giant mushroom creatures]].
147	* ''Film/TheMatrix'':
148	** Smith seals Neo's mouth before implanting him with a ''living'' "bug".
149	** The second film ups the BodyHorror by allowing Smith to infect someone's body so that they will become a [[MesACrowd duplicate of him]].
150	* ''Film/{{May}}'' depicts a young socially isolated woman develop a morbid fascination with other people's body parts...
151	* The effects of the Flare Virus in ''Film/MazeRunnerTheScorchTrials'' are garish; whatever part of your body got infected first starts to fester and turn black as your respiratory functions start to cease, followed by a degeneration of your mind to a feral zombie-like state. Advanced cases have horribly twisted limbs, skin marred by black tendril-like growths, a twitching and jerky gait likely caused by some form of palsy, and most Cranks have [[EyeScream gouged their eyes out]] to stop the hallucinations they're plagued by.
152	* In ''Film/{{Monkeybone}}'', before the end credits there's an animated segment where various characters from the film appear in toon form and take off their skins and bodysuits to reveal monkey-like characters underneath. Considering the director, Henry Selick, also made ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', not that surprising.
153	* In ''Film/TheMonsterMaker'', the acromegaly inflicted on Lawrence by Dr. Markoff twists and distorts Lawrence's body, transforming him into a grotesque monster and stripping him of his musical talent.
154	* Mr. Creosote in ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'' probably counts. Swelling and bursting because of one last [[TheLastStraw wafer thin mint]], showering everything with the contents of the stomach and, because it was so explosive, having the ''entire front of his body blown off'', leaving only a pair of lungs and a beating heart.
155	* Music/MichaelJackson's transformation into Mecha-Michael in ''Film/{{Moonwalker}}''.
156	* The demise of Captain Amazing in ''Film/MysteryMen'' as well as the demise of millionaire supervillain Casanova Frankenstein.
157	* ''Film/TheNewAdventuresOfPinocchio'' has 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.
158	* ''Film/{{Nightbooks}}'': During [[spoiler:her prolonged period asleep, the original witch began fusing with the candy in her gingerbread house]].
159	* ''Film/{{Nightbreed}}'' features 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 plays 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.
160	* The ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' films have this quite frequently, but mainly in dream sequences.
161	** In ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreetPart2FreddysRevenge'', there's the scene where Freddy comes out of the main character. There's also the bloodcurdling nightmare scene where Freddy peels back the skin on his head to show his throbbing brain to Jesse.
162	** In ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'', there is a character who is a recovered heroin addict, and when she confronts Freddy in the dream world he freaks her out by turning the old injection scars on her arms into repulsive sucking little orifices.
163	** The part in ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster'' where Freddy slowly turns a tough girl who hates insects into a ''giant cockroach.''
164	* ''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.]]
165	** In [[Film/NobodySleepsInTheWoodsTonightII the sequel]], the same happens to [[spoiler:Zosia]]. [[spoiler:We also see the transformation in action when Zosia infects Adas.]]
166	* ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor1996'' has some surprisingly graphic transformation sequences.
167	* ''Film/PacificRim'':
168	** Knifehead and Scunner each have a pair of arms that look as if the bones in them are splitting apart.
169	** The injuries the {{Kaiju}} suffer. For instance, [[FatBastard Leatherback]] gets its arm shot off by [[HumongousMecha Gipsy Danger]]. Then when they [[DoubleTap check for a pulse]], they fire at it, igniting its organs and causing its ribcage to collapse. Otachi is no picnic either. Its chest gets carved like a chopping board thanks to [[MultiArmedAndDangerous Crimson Typhoon]], and later gets its [[TongueTrauma tongue torn out]], and its PrehensileTail [[LiterallyShatteredLives frozen and shattered]].
170	* In ''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]].
171	* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'' and ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]'' had the ''FlyingDutchman'' crew, who, after joining the crew, started to turn into fish creatures and then actually become part of the ship. A still-living sailor Will finds in ''DMC'' whose face [[TheBlank was sucked off]] by the Kraken's suction cups also counts.
172	* ''Film/Poltergeist1982'' has a scene where a guy is in the bathroom washing his hands and he suddenly starts bleeding and has a horrific vision of his face peeling off. In the sequel, there's a sequence where another guy downs a bottle of tequila; upon swallowing the worm, he becomes a MeatPuppet for the BigBad. After he's been forced to abuse his family for a while, he then proceeds to vomit a large, tumorous worm-like THING that morphs into said big bad. Yeesh.
173	* ''Film/PoultrygeistNightOfTheChickenDead'' and its demon chicken egg breasts. There was a man with eggs where his nipples should be with demon chickens hatching from them. This is on top of normal zombie movie body horrors (only with chicken human zombie hybrids).
174	* ''Film/TheRuins'': Stacy thinks that the man-eating vines are ''growing underneath her skin'' and begins obsessing about cutting herself open to try and get rid of the tendrils. [[spoiler:She's not hallucinating.]]
175	* ''Franchise/RoboCop'':
176	** ''Film/RoboCop1987'':
177	*** Murphy's barbaric death at the hands of the gangers that necessitates his EmergencyTransformation into [=RoboCop=]. They use shotguns to blow his right hand off, then blast away the entire arm at the shoulder, leaving a shredded joint. Then they riddle him with buck, mutilating his body beyond any hope of normal recovery (and he ''survives this''). Then Boddicker finally finishes him off with a shot to the forehead that blows a huge chunk out of the back of his head, averting PrettyLittleHeadshots.
178	*** One of Clarence Boddicker's mooks, Emil, tries to run Murphy over with a truck and accidentally drives straight into a huge vat of [[HollywoodAcid Toxic Waste]]. He emerges from the deluge horribly melted and deformed, and is so biologically and chemically unstable that getting hit by a car pops him like a zit.
179	** Robo himself, under his cool visor, is actually a human face (or tauntingly realistic replica of one) stretched over and nailed onto the metal shell of his head.
180	** And again to Officer Murphy in [[Film/RoboCop2014 the 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.
181	* The ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' films not only expose the viewer to considerable machine-assisted Body Horror, but Jigsaw's captives are forced to overcome their own dread of bodily mutilation [[LifeOrLimbDecision in order to survive]].
182	%% ZCE * Creator/JenniferTilly giving birth in ''Film/SeedOfChucky''.
183	* 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. Then she starts laughing, taking it to higher levels of creepiness]].
184	* ''Film/ShinKamenRiderPrologue'' defines creepy when it comes to ''Franchise/KamenRider''. Shin's transformation includes a third eye emerging from his forehead and his lower jaw splitting in half.
185	* In ''Film/ShockingDark'', those attacked by the monsters lurking in the bunker are forcibly mutated into biomechanical beings just like them.
186	* ''Film/SilentHill'' has more than its share; the nurse near the end, the barb-wire dildo finale, the white things that spat acid, and when Pyramid Head ''rips the skin from a woman's body''...while she's ''still alive''!
187	* ''Film/{{Slither}}'' loves this trope so much it wants to impregnate it with thousands of alien slugs causing it to swell up until it could fill a barn, and then instead of giving birth the traditional way, simply explode. The alien slug babies will then run off and crawl into the brains of anyone they can find to make them join the hive mind (probably a ''Shivers'' reference). The "queen" now resembles a cross between a squid, Michael Rooker, and a horrible skin disease, and is spread across a room. The alien slug baby people can then strip off and lie down on their ruler, and slowly get absorbed into him.
188	* The ending of ''Film/{{Society}}'' is a particularly bizarre example of this trope. Anybody who has seen the film will probably have the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcfav-5kArM shunting]]" scene burned into their brain, either because it is disgusting and disturbing, or unbelievably {{Narm}}y (in a squirm-inducing sort of way). (You know [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights Hieronymous Bosch's ''The Garden of Earthly Delights?'']] Now imagine that was ''drawn from life.'')
189	* ''Film/{{Splinter}}'' has some good malformy body horror in it. The main menace has the ability to infect hosts and twist them into rotting, flailing monsters with spikes sticking out their flesh.
190	* ''Film/{{Sssssss}}'' has a man slowly turning into a snake, which is not a pretty process. We also see what happens when the transformation is incomplete.
191	* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
192	** In ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' [[spoiler:one of the Borg drones that infiltrated the Enterprise]] initiates one of the crew into the assimilation process. We see black veins showing up along half of his face as he begs Captain Picard for help. Picard [[spoiler:puts him out of his misery.]] Early in the film, Picard has a nightmare that involves a Borg prosthesis bursting out of his face.
193	** Way back in ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'', an early scene sees the Enterprise's new science officer and another crewman caught in the transporter beam when it malfunctions, resulting in their twisted and deformed bodies appearing for a moment, screaming horribly and then vanishing -- apparently reappearing on the other end of the beam, where they (fortunately) didn't live long.
194	* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
195	** In ''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.
196	** Things don't get any better for [[JerkassWoobie Vader]] throughout the rest of the saga, as he is rescued, only to be operated on for days ''without anesthetic'', and is encased in an incredibly uncomfortable suit of armor/iron lung that he must wear for [[AndIMustScream the rest of his life]], aside from brief respites in pressurized chambers, so he does not suffocate due to his damaged lungs. Oh, and when he was able to spend a few moments outside the suit, it was often to '''scrub necrotic flesh off his body'''! ''Film/RogueOne'' does a great job of showing, if just for a moment, how freakishly horrific his private life is.
197	* ''Film/StrangeNature'': Plenty. At first, it's limited to some extra-limbed frogs that some kids find by the riverside. However, when [[spoiler:Nikki]] and [[spoiler:Jodie]] give birth to their children, it's revealed that the cause is spreading to other species as well. [[spoiler:Nikki's puppy has a cleft lip, and Jodie's daughter has a cleft lip, a smooth surface with nostril holes in place of her nose, and an extra arm.]] [[spoiler:Plus, at least one of the wolves who's been attacking people has two faces.]]
198	* At one point in ''Film/{{Sunspring}}'', H vomits up an eyeball.
199	* ''Film/SweetHome1989'' has some prominent examples: [[spoiler:Taguchi, whose lower torso is melted off by Lady Mamiya's shadows; Yamamura, whose flesh melts off of his body after saving Emi from Mamiya's furnace before his skeleton crumbles into a pile; and Lady Mamiya, herself, whose body twists and mutates into a horrifically monstrous form during the climax.]]
200	* In ''Film/TheSwordAndTheSorcerer'', when [[EvilSorcerer Xusia]] [[spoiler:sheds his [[TheDragon Machelli]] disguise, quite literally]].
201	* ''Film/TalesFromTheDarksideTheMovie'' features this in at least two of the stories.
202	** "Cat From Hell" is about a hitman hired to kill a cat. The cat is responsible for several deaths, and yes, does take out the hitman. [[spoiler:It does an AttackTheMouth by leaping into the hitman's mouth. When the hitman chokes to death, the cat keeps going, for a full OrificeInvasion. And it's still not done. It gives its last victim a heart attack by letting that person see the cat [[OrificeEvacuation leaving through the hitman's mouth]].]]
203	** "Lover's Vow" involves [[spoiler:a human turning into a monstrous gargoyle, starting with her claws tearing through the human skin]].
204	* The entire premise of ''Film/{{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]].
205	* 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.''
206	* In ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'', Marcus Wright's discovery that he is a cyborg by looking down and finding his chest cavity ripped open and filled with metal bits is pretty disturbing.
207	* Several instances in Argentine horror film ''Film/{{Terrified}}'', including a character being killed by having her neck broken, and then reappearing as an apparently-still-conscious abomination, completely bent over backwards but still capable of running.
208	* ''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''.
209	* The title creature in ''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.
210	* ''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]]''.
211	* What happens twice to Senator [=McComb=] in different time periods in ''Film/TimeCop'', [[spoiler:[[TimeParadox when they're in the same place at the same time]]. They're merging into one creature before turning into [[SpecialEffectsFailure living liquid]] which disappears out of space]].
212	* The French-Japanese-Korean film ''[[Film/{{Tokyo}} 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.
213	* ''Film/TokyoGorePolice'': Imagine the two ''Tetsuo'' movies with pink flesh instead of metal, then add a ridiculous amount of {{Gorn}}.
214	* 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.
215	* ''Film/Underworld2003'' also pays homage to ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon''. The werewolf transformation is a direct reference to that movie.
216	* ''Film/Vagabond1985'': 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.
217	* ''Film/{{Viral}}'': When a person is fully infected, the parasitic worms are seen gruesomely protruding from their ears, clicking while they sense uninfected nearby to attack.
218	* ''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.]]
219	* 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 Dark Lord Pink emerges from underneath, [[PuttingOnTheReich fully dressed and ready]].
220	* In ''Film/WeWereSoldiers'', based on the battle of Ia Drang valley in 1965, napalm is accidentally sent to land on American soldiers. Besides the men running while on fire, a young soldier named Jimmy Nakayama had his legs burned by the napalm. The horror comes from when one man grabs his ankles to carry him to the rescue chopper and the skin slides off like the burned outside of a marshmallow. ''Not'' creative liberty on the film's part, Jimmy Nakayama was a real soldier in the battle who did have that happen to him; [[TearJerker he died two days later in an aid station and became a father just that week]].
221	* ''Film/{{Willow}}'':
222	** The scene where Bavmorda pulls a ForcedTransformation to transform Airc's ''entire army'' into pigs is ''incredibly'' disturbing, especially because the visual effects and makeup used still hold up.
223	** 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.
224	* All the transformation sequences in ''Film/TheWolfman2010'', in all their [[PainfulTransformation bone-cracking]], [[NauseaFuel blood vomiting]] horror.
225	* 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.
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