Body Horror Tag Archive

Awards, Live Action

A Father’s Loneliness Erupts Corporeally In Matty Crawford’s BAFTA Body Horror ‘Stomach Bug’

Matty Crawford chats to DN about building the horror fuelled landscape of his psychological drama about a lonely parent suffering from empty nest syndrome.

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Live Action

A Mother Learns the Horrifying Cause of Her Sudden Inability to Enjoy Sex in Jessica Barr’s Revenge Short ‘Tight’

We speak to Jessica Barr about embracing the art in social cause filmmaking for her disturbing short about a woman who has her sexual agency taken from her.

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Live Action, Premiere

Jordan Chandler Plunges Us Into a Mother’s Relentless Surreal Nightmare in Her Psychological Wild Ride ‘Brutal’

Jordan Chandler talks about channelling her righteous indignation into her blistering thriller about a mother on a Sisyphean quest to save her missing child.

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Animation, Music Video

Balázs Simon & Cátia Abreu’s ‘Wake Up Pass Out’ Finds a Zoned Out Nightclubber Encountering a Grotesque Monster

Balázs Simon & Cátia Abreu unpack the practical and digital tools that gave birth to the Cronenbergian monster in their creepy Sad Night Dynamite promo.

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Live Action, Premiere

Nathan Ginter’s Darkly Comic Body Horror ‘The Third Ear’ Sees a Nude Model’s Self-Image Begin to Spiral

Nathan Ginter takes us inside the ways he and his crew maximised the potential and adaptability of their locations when crafting their body horror grad short.

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Music Video

Ian Roderick Gray Blends Body Horror, Romance and Drama in His Video for On Man’s ‘Worse Than it Seems’

Ian Roderick Gray explains how his VFX team created the naturalistic, body horror inspired look of his protagonist's unusual condition.

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Live Action

A Recluse Is Driven Insane by an Immovable Booger in Ariel Zengotita’s Comedic Body Horror ‘Flick’

Director Ariel Zengotita details the importance of thematic balance in genre filmmaking for his darkly psychological yet comedic body horror 'Flick'.

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Live Action

Bryan M. Ferguson Caters to All Your Self-Amputation Needs in Transgressive Alienation Short ‘Flamingo’

"The film induced panic attacks and caused some audience members to faint." Bryan M. Ferguson takes DN into the dark world of his self-amputation short.

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