the bracket for the best body horror movie

body horror hours. currently in round 2, check pinned! block "bodywh0rer" for no Secksual Content (<- censored for tumblr)

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the battle to find out tumblr's favorite body horror movie

howdy! i’m beck, she/him. main @lektricfergus. i love body horror and kind of wanted to make a poll blog so here we are!

we are currently in round 2!

submissions are closed, but you can still submit propaganda through the form!

this blog will have gore on it! if gore is a trigger for you this is not going to be the tournament to follow. i will, however, tag (sexual) nsfw content for movie propaganda and posters; my nsfw tag will be "bodywh0rer", so filter that out if you don't want to see it

important: below is a list of what warnings i tag and what i tag them as. if there is a broad or safety related category (such as the flashing lights one) or a tag for an existing one you’d like me to add, send in an ask and i’ll see what i can do. anything in bold will always be tagged regardless of the post format; other tags will likely only appear on visual posts. warnings for propaganda on poll posts, when applicable, will be included just above the cut.

health and safety tags: flashing lights, flashing, flashing gif

content/trigger warning tags: animal harm, bugs, medical, needles, pregnancy, rape, substances, suicide, vomit

the following tags will be tagged on every relevant post: flashing, flashing lights, flashing gif, rape, suicide

submit propaganda here -> https://forms.gle/NTyqsvGaQ4SDqikX7

round 2 matchups -> here

round 1 matchups -> here

letterboxd list of every movie (will change order as poll goes on) -> https://boxd.it/pnMOq

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Body Horror Beatdown, Match 7, Round 2

Vote for your favorite:

An American Werewolf in London (1981, dir. John Landis) vs. Jennifer's Body (2009, dir. Karyn Kusama)

An American Werewolf in London

Jennifer's Body

I know neither of these

Voting ended onDec 22, 2023

Propaganda under the cut.

An American Werewolf in London:

Beware the moon.

"Another classic werewolf body horror recc. The extended sequence of the main character transforming into a werewolf is textbook body horror. Bonus points for the undead people the main character talks to, their rotting skin and open wounds add a zombie-esque quality to the film."

"The scene where the guy changed into the werewolf absolutely traumatised me. None of the werewolf legends I'd read as a kid had ever made me think about how it happened, and werewolves in them always just looked like normal wolves. That was what made them intriguing -- did they exist or not? The obviously painful transformation scene of the film where bones were cracking and regrowing in new ways and flesh and skin was grotesquely stretching to cover the new shape of a horrific wolfman creature completely turned me off anything to do with werewolves ever again."

Jennifer's Body:

She's evil... and not just high school evil.

"Obviously."

[buckysbarnes]

“I mean, they did go all “Benihana” on my ass with that knife, and it should’ve killed me, but for some reason… it didn’t.”

- JENNIFER’S BODY ( 2009 ) dir. Karyn Kusama

[slayerbuffy]

An American Werewolf in London 1981 | dir. John Landis

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My poor boy The Stuff got stomped into yesterday…Man showed up expecting a knife fight and got nuked (I love this poll and totally understand Videodrome winning, it’s just a really funny comparison to me)

noooo yeah i love the stuff but it got dealt a bad hand

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Sending my man From Beyond a vote despite liking Thing body horror more so it won't feel as bad and unloved.

DFKBHSBKDHGS thank you for your service. i don't think it's actually bad and unloved the thing is just too big of a powerhouse for almost anything else to compete with, which i probably should have thought of before making the polls

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sooo glad it's repo vs coraline, i need coraline gone for what she did to bodysnatchers 😔

it's not her fault the brackets were randomly shuffled :( but there will be a loser's bracket at some point so you'll see body snatchers again

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updated the pinned a bit

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Body Horror Beatdown, Match 6, Round 2

Vote for your favorite:

Jacob's Ladder (1990, dir. Adrian Lyne) vs. Eraserhead (1977, dir. David Lynch)

Jacob's Ladder

Eraserhead

I know neither of these

Voting ended onDec 19, 2023

Propaganda under the cut.

Jacob's Ladder:

The most frightening thing about Jacob Singer's nightmare is that he isn't dreaming.

"This movie was an inspiration for silent hill and it shows ! The creature are very disturbing and even more than we never really know where they come from and they can arrive everywhere from a party to the window of the subway. And the threat of the protagonist becoming like them is present even if it isn't the main threat of the movie. I also really appreciate that they're not use just to be gross and repulsive but to actually be eery and disturbing. Also this movie is just an incredible gem to be watched"

Eraserhead:

Be warned. The nightmare has not gone away...

"Just like look at that thing"

"The Eraserhead baby is my sweet sweet darling baby angel and *I* think it's a delightful little cutesit. I do understand why people think the prop that MIGHT have been made out of a rabbit carcass but no one's sure because David Lynch won't tell is gross tho"

"what was the baby made out of in eraserhead? truth is, no one knows. I'm fairly certain david lynch himself has no clue, and the only reason he acts so mysterious about it is because he doesn't remember. the current most reliable theory is that it was a cow fetus (keyword: theory) but what the fuck? david had people purposefully wear blindfolds on set so that they wouldn't see the actual prop being prepared for filming. he says he "buried it" somewhere in a field after the production wrapped. who "buries" a film prop???? i mean, if anyone, it would be dave alright. the baby invokes a sense of body horror like nothing else, because it looks genuinely so alien and just wrong in every way. sure, there's no bombastic gore, no truckloads of blood nor puddles of liquified organs, but the stupid fucking baby more than makes up for it. and on top of that you get a GREAT movie from a GREAT director. I love david lynch so much it's unreal and you should too. it is his most spiritual movie, he says. when asked to elaborate on that he just said "no"."

[bwmedia]

ERASERHEAD (1977) dir. David Lynch

[midnightmurdershow]

Jacob’s Ladder (1990) Directed by Adrian Lyne

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i am well aware most anything going against the the thing will get nuked instantly which is why i am going to have a loser’s bracket at some point

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btw the matchups are still randomly shuffled sorry from beyond fans

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i am well aware most anything going against the the thing will get nuked instantly which is why i am going to have a loser’s bracket at some point

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Body Horror Beatdown, Match 5, Round 2

Vote for your favorite:

The Thing (1982, dir. John Carpenter) vs. From Beyond (1986, dir. Stuart Gordon)

The Thing

From Beyond

I know neither of these

Voting ended onDec 18, 2023

Propaganda under the cut.

The Thing:

Man is the warmest place to hide.

"all sequence of the thing is entirely practical effects, the blood and the gore, the tentacles and different versions of the thing. the practical effects were actually shot after the rest of the movie had wrapped up because making the effects took so long. they actually had an amputee in the scene where a characters arms were ripped off by the chest mouth in the defibrillator scene. Honestly John Carpenters magnum opus that was hounded by critics when it came out, but rightfully ADORED by horror fans in the present day for its amazing practical effects and awesome plot. bold and daring move to hide a lot of the characters eyes in many scenes, eyes are window to the soul and the thing doesn't want people knowing."

From Beyond:

Humans are such easy prey.

"Okay okay, so this one is kinda weird and really grotesque at times in an almost comical way. You see the professor as he slowly transforms into his “new form” (after his real body had its head bitten off and now he’s in the Beyond thing) which is… gross. You see all sorts of these messed up Beyond creatures, you see a bald, pale Jeffrey Combs eating brains after being sorta transformed by exposure to the beyond, etc"

[99jnf9j2fknfio-deactivated]

FROM BEYOND (1986) SFX team led by Mark Shostrom & John Carl Buechler

[breezybeej]

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Body Horror Beatdown, Match 4, Round 2

Vote for your favorite:

The Fly (1986, dir. David Cronenberg) vs. Alien (1979, dir. Ridley Scott)

The Fly

Alien

I know neither of these

Voting ended onDec 18, 2023

Propaganda under the cut.

The Fly:

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

"Main character turns into a man-fly hybrid slowly over the course of the movie. What happens to him is truly horrific and only adds to my disgust of insects as a whole. Some might even say the ability to make Jeff Goldblum disgusting is a body horror feat in and of itself."

Alien:

In space, no one can hear you scream.

"Okay so, for starters it’s famous for one of the scariest body horror scenes in the history of film (also one of the earliest REALLY SCARY REALLY GORY ONES) where you see the xenomorph pop out of the guy’s chest, from then on things just get worse even if it’s a slower kind of dread, you get to see the alien in all of its glory and witness the murders of the crew members in sometimes gruesome sometimes off-screen up-to-the-imagination types of ways. I guess the freakiest part though is the idea that you can be inhabited by one of those creatures and there’s nothing you can do to stop it from literally tearing you apart from the inside out, unless you die"