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An American Werewolf in London
Released: 1981
Director: John Landis
Synopsis: While on a trip to England, two American tourists are attacked on the moors of Yorkshire. While convalescing at the home of a nurse, one of the tourists soon begins to experience strange changes in his body and mind.
Verdict: There are many reasons why this film has one of the strongest cult followings in horror, not least because of the incredible practical effects used in the werewolf transformation scene that kicks the butt of any CGI in the 45 years since. It gets off to a good start before slowing down, but then it takes off again at speed with a deft balance of horror and dark comedy, swinging between the two with finesse. 4/5

Ash
Released: 2025
Director: Flying Lotus
Synopsis: Riya (González) wakes up on a distant planet with no memory of what happened to her. She soon discovers the fate of the crew was much more horrifying than she was led to believe.
Verdict: An interesting premise, though not executed to the best of its potential. Mostly monotonous up until the third act, where it picked up steam with some solid body horror, alien activity and general oddness. 3/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Ash review.

B

Best Wishes to All (Japanese: みなに幸あれ)
Released: 2022
Director: Yûta Shimots
Synopsis: A young woman visits her grandparents in a rural town, and what she discovers at their house opens up a world of terror.
Verdict: An interesting look at how happiness sometimes requires the suffering of others, balanced well with body horror and the horror of waking up to the real world. 4/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Best Wishes to All review.

The Blob
Released: 1988
Director: Chuck Russell
Synopsis: When a military satellite comes crashing down to Earth, it brings with it an organism that quickly begins to devour everything, and everyone, in its path.
Verdict: In this remake of the 1958 classic, the infamous Blob terrorises a town once again, but this time with a heck of a lot more body horror. It certainly goes all-in on the practical effects that made horror of the 80s the gruesome touchstone that we’ve come to know it for, and unlike some of its contemporaries, The Blob doesn’t forgo plot for shocks, at least not entirely. The performances are as genuine as Steve McQueen in the original, but McQueen definitely had to put up with less blood. 3.5/5

Body Melt
Released: 1993
Director: Philip Brophy
Synopsis: The residents of a small town in Australia become the unwitting test subjects of a new drug that alters the body in gruesome ways.
Verdict: Humorous? Yes. Good? Not really. The body horror aspects are fairly strong and horrifying, but with weak scenes in between it’s a struggle to get to the end. 2/5

Braindead (US: Dead Alive)
Released: 1992
Director: Peter Jackson
Synopsis: When his overbearing mother is bitten by a rat-monkey hybrid creature and turns into a zombie, Lionel (Timothy Balme) finds himself trying to survive in the middle of an outbreak along with love interest Paquita (Diana Peñalver).
Verdict: This early work of Peter Jackson, he of Lord of the Rings, has absolutely nothing in common with his later fantasy work bar one thing: his clear commitment to bringing something visually alive for audiences. Content-wise, it’s hilarious, gory, and a perfect B-horror-type film, and it certainly has that classic New Zealand-vibe of not taking itself too seriously. 4/5

The Bride!
Released: 2026
Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Synopsis: In 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) tracks down Dr. Euphronius (Annette Bening) to implore her to make him a companion. They exhume the body of the recently deceased Ida (Jessie Buckley), who now goes by the simple name of the Bride. Together, Frank and the Bride travel cross-country causing all kinds of criminal mayhem, falling in love as they do so.
Verdict: A fun crime caper more than the gothic romance it is meant to be, it lacks the cohesion we might hope for in a genuine gothic romance, particularly where Frankenstein’s monster and his Bride are concerned. There’s a lot to celebrate in this film, but it has left something to be desired, too. 3.5/5
Read the full The Bride! review.

Bring Her Back
Released: 2025
Directors: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou
Synopsis: A brother and sister discover some strange things at the home of their foster mother.
Verdict: In spite of a slightly unoriginal story, the Philippou brothers prove their mettle by creating another horror film that is almost as horrific and gruesome as their debut (Talk to Me). 4/5
Read the full Bring Her Back review.

C

Castle Freak
Released: 1995
Director: Stuart Gordon
Synopsis: An American man inherits an Italian castle, and while staying there with his estranged wife and blind daughter, they soon learn they’re not alone.
Verdict: A typically gratuitous B-horror that just about manages to have a sturdy plot and indulge in a little body horror amongst some questionable scenes. 3/5

Clayface
Released: 2026
Director: James Watkins
Synopsis: An actor has his face disfigured and searches for a way to get his face back, resulting in a transformation to his body that allows him to take revenge on his attackers.
Verdict: Clayface is consistent with its story and pacing while building toward some truly deliciously entertaining and frightening body horror and action, and then they stuck the landing as a suitably satisfying horror and an independent entry into the DCU. 4.5/5
Read the full Clayface review.

Creepshow
Released: 1982
Director: George A. Romero
Synopsis: An anthology of horror stories that range from the gory to the gruesome and the mind-bending to the unimaginable.
Verdict: A fantastic anthology written by (and starring in one episode) Stephen King, Creepshow is everything we love about the horror genre of the 80s, with its unabashed stories, dark humour and downright freaky creatures and people. What helps it endure is its use of VFX to get a visceral and physical reaction from audiences, something that is sorely missing in modern CGI-heavy horror. We need to bring horror anthologies back to the mainstream. 4/5

Crimes of the Future
Released: 2022
Director: David Cronenberg
Synopsis: Due to advances in biotechnology and accelerated evolution in some humans, a performance artist and his partner are able to perform surgery as a form of entertainment, until an investigator gets involved and their work is exposed to the wrong people.
Verdict: An interesting story that presents themes worth talking about, however it relies mainly on visual effects to shock and awe, leaving audiences wanting more from the characters and their intentions. It’s an enjoyable and thought-provoking watch that could ignite many a conversation about evolution and genetics, but Cronenberg could have perhaps gone further with his ideas. 3/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Crimes of the Future review.

Cronos (Spanish)
Released: 1992
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Synopsis: An elderly antiques dealer discovers a device created centuries ago by an alchemist who used it to gain immortality. As the dealer uses the device and begins to grow younger, he discovers that he’s not the only one after the gift of youth.
Verdict: As interesting as the premise is, the execution of the story is up and down, with moments of intrigue and gruesome body horror often followed by moments of blandness. Federico Luppi puts in a great performance as antiques dealer Jesus Gris, but Ron Perlman feels out of place in this mainly Spanish-speaking horror. 3/5

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District 9
Released: 2009
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Synopsis: In 1982, over a million aliens become stranded on Earth in Johannesburg, South Africa. Over the following decades, the aliens barely survive in a make-shift camp that quickly becomes slum-like. When Wikus (Sharlto Copley) is ordered to help move the aliens to a new camp, he unintentionally becomes involved in their plight to leave Earth.
Verdict: A fantastic premise that mirrors many of our own real problems revolving around immigration and racism. The characters are interesting, aliens included, the story is solid and is framed well in its documentary style, with a mix of interviews, news footage, CCTV and found footage. 4/5

E

Eraserhead
Released: 1977
Director: David Lynch
Synopsis: In this surrealist film set in a desolate world, Henry (Jack Nance) becomes responsible for a child that is supposedly his, but it is extremely deformed, hardly human at all.
Verdict: This body horror is what you make of it, but don’t go into it expecting anything straightforward. For me, there was a lot of emotion to be felt within its dreamlike design, and it somehow resonated with me. That’s not the case for everyone, so as mentioned, make of it what you will. 4/5

eXistenZ
Released: 1999
Director: David Cronenberg
Synopsis: A game designer is hunted down whilst playing her own virtual reality game, a game that is run through an organic pod that is biologically connected to the human body, and an amateur gamer is the only one who can help her stay alive.
Verdict: One of Cronenberg’s best films, eXistenZ mixes multiple genres to make something very unique about gaming VR before VR was a real thing in the game world. It’s unpredictable and culminates with a great twist. Jude Law’s American accent leaves a lot to be desire, and it does verge on a little too confusing on occasion, but it’s a fun ride through and gory and shocking world, never really knowing if it’s the real world or not (Inceptioning before Inception was a thing). 4/5

Eyes Without a Face (French: Les Yeux sans visage, US: The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus)
Released: 1960
Director: Georges Franju, based on the novel by Jean Redon
Synopsis: Dr. Génessier (Pierre Brasseur), a plastic surgeon, finds his next patient to be his own daughter after she’s involved in a car accident that leaves her face severly disfigured. He lures women to his home in order to try multiple times to conduct a face transplant on his daughter.
Verdict: Coming soon

F

The Fly
Released: 1986
Director: David Cronenberg
Synopsis: Eccentric scientist Seth (Jeff Goldblum) invents telepods to transport live things. Growing impatient, Seth uses himself as a test subject after successfully transporting a live baboon. However, unbeknownst to Seth (but knownst to us), a common housefly also transports with Seth, causing serious repercussions.
Verdict: Another excellent film from Cronenberg that is further renowned for Goldblum’s balanced tongue-in-cheek yet engaging performance. The Fly fully embodies Cronenberg’s penchant for body horror and a fictional story that is fully rooted in realistic themes. Entertaining, shocking and very well designed, this film is truly special in the body horror and sci fi genres. 4/5

Frankenstein
Released: 1931
Director: James Whale
Synopsis: Dr. Frankenstein decides to play god and reanimate a body thrown together with multiple body parts from different corpses in order to create the Monster. Without someone to guide him, the misunderstood Monster terrorises the locals until they set out to hunt him down.
Verdict: A horror classic that stands the test of time, if only for its brutal nature and dark tones (in both its visuals and its story) and the famous make-up on Boris Karloff. Staying more or less true to Mary Shelley’s famous novel, there’s a lot to be terrified of in this movie, and a lot to enjoy in its 1930s style. 4/5

Frankenstein (Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein)
Released: 1994
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Synopsis: Victor Frankenstein (Kenneth Branagh) is hounded by the Creature (Robert DeNiro) he created and abandoned, discovering that playing God isn’t what he thought it would be.
Verdict: An excellent adaptation of the classic story with terrific performances and stunning (though at times horrifying) imagery, set designs, visual effects and make up. Almost like a stage play at times, it’s incredibly immersive and will leave you with more existential questions than answers. 4/5

Frankenstein
Released: 2025
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Synopsis: Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) becomes infamous for his work in reanimation, to the point where he is commissioned by arms dealer Henrich Harlander (Christoph Waltz) to speed up the process and reanimate a full body, resulting in the ‘birth’ of his Creature (Jacob Elordi). Victor comes to see his creation as an imperfect specimen, an abomination that must not be allowed to live.
Verdict: Fantastical but grounded in reality, subtle in some respects, overt in others, del Toro’s career has led up to this film, and it has totally been worth the wait, with astounding performances, terrifying visuals and incredible emotional depth. Pure gothic brilliance. 4.5/5
Read the full Frankenstein (2025) review.

Freaks
Released: 1932
Director: Tod Browning
Synopsis: A trapeze artist named Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova) joins a carnival sideshow, in which she seduces a fellow performer purely to get at his inheritance, getting others involved in her scheming. Amongst other relationships going on within the company of the sideshow, many of them become suspicious of Cleopatra and thus take matters into their own hands.
Verdict: While this film was probably quite discerning for its time (to put it lightly), it doesn’t hold up today due to its subject matter of putting people who are different on show as ‘freaks’. As a film it succeeds in having a clear story, but one can’t help but feel this film was purely for exploitation. Worth watching purely for understanding how times have changed dramatically, and for appreciating the performances by all the actors.

G

Gates of Hell trilogy
Released: 1980-1981
Director: Lucio Fulci
Synopsis: In City of the Living Dead, the suicide of a priest opens a gate to hell, and a group of people work to close it before All Saint’s Day; in The Beyond, a woman inherits a hotel that houses another hell gate; and in The House by the Cemetery, a family move into a house that is also home to an apparently immortal serial killer.
Verdict: These films don’t exactly boast strong storylines (they’re pretty basic really), but they are rather a vehicle for some pretty spectacular visual effects and make up. The body horror and gore is at times extreme so these films are not for the faint of heart, but absolutely worth your time to see how amazing the practical effects were before computer graphics. 3/5

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Hellraiser series
Released: 1987-2022
Synopsis: Thanks to the discovery of a puzzle box known colloquially as the Lament Configuration, humans discover a hell dimension that is home to Cenobites. Some humans seek out this dimension to indulge in its rumoured pleasures, while others are haunted by what they witness.
Verdict: One of the best horror series out there, Hellraiser plays unapologetically with common fears of what constitutes ‘hell’, namely pain and unending fear. The Cenobites are fearsome demons, as are the people who seek them out. The series starts off very well in its inaugural film, and the gore and body horror that is introduced is kept at a relatively high level throughout the series, even if the quality of the ’87 original has not been easily replicated over the years.
Check out DOTT’s Film Club – Hellraiser.

Him
Released: 2025
Director: Justin Tipping
Synopsis: Cameron Cade (Tyriq Withers) will do just about anything to become the GOAT in American football, and his training at the hands of former football star-turned coach Isaiah White (Marlon Wayans) is a more bloody affair than he could have realised.
Verdict: The film feels like a wannabe indie horror but is a bit confused tonally. The gory scenes are suitably shocking, and Withers turns in a great performance, however it needed to choose a lane when it came to its dark comedy versus social commentary. 3/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Him review.

Huesera: The Bone Woman (Spanish: Huesera)
Released: 2022
Director: Michelle Garza Cervera
Synopsis: Excited at the prospect of becoming a mother, Valeria (Natalia Solián) soon finds her pregnancy threatened by dark forces.
Verdict: With themes of women’s mental health and the pressure to have children, a subplot of traditional medicines and healing and subtle yet effective horror, this is a solid all-rounder that should probably be avoided by new/expectant mothers. 4/5
Read the TIny Tapes Huesera: The Bone Woman review.

The Human Centipede series
Released: 2009-2015
Director: Tom Six
Synopsis: The franchise begins with a German surgeon who kidnaps three tourists and stitches them together mouth to anus, creating a ‘centipede’-like formation. The second installment goes more meta, in that a viewer of the first film attempts to recreate the ‘human centipede’ with twelve victims, and the third involves a prison warden and his accountant doing the same with prison inmates.
Verdict: This truly is one of the most warped kind of film plots ever to exist in the mainstream. It is absolute car-crash viewing: so disturbing that you don’t want to watch, yet so insane that you can’t look away. You will need to be of a strong constitution to get through even one of these deranged films.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Released: 1978
Director: Philip Kaufman
Synopsis: When Elizabeth (Brooke Adams) finds a strange flower, it appears to change her boyfriend. She talks to her friend Matthew (Donald Sutherland), a health inspector, and they come to find that the flower is of alien origin. They come upon pods that are duplicating and replacing humans, and Elizabeth, Matthew and a couple others race against time stop this apparent alien invasion.
Verdict: Other than some character changes, this film doesn’t really deviate from the ’56 film. Its strength lies in its body horror and a handful of shocking scenes, but its lulls are rather a bore – the performances and dialogue are quite monotonou, and so it relies on swinging from shock to far-between shock. 3/5

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Keeper
Released: 2025
Director: Osgood Perkins
Synopsis: A woman heads to a secluded cabin in the woods with her boyfriend where she soon finds that they’re far from alone.
Verdict: Stylistically it’s got flair, but the unoriginal story doesn’t match up to Perkins’ cinematic eye. The design of the creatures that lurk around the cabin is creepy enough to keep things interesting, and Tatiana Maslany gives an incredible performance that outshines the material, but on the whole it falls short of being an outlier in its genre. 3/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Keeper review.

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The Lair
Released: 2023
Director: Neil Marshall
Synopsis: An RAF pilot is shot down over Afghanistan and soon finds herself teaming up with US soldiers after she discovers a hidden bunker containing creatures developed from human experimentation.
Verdict: In a word: awful. The performances are average to poor, the basic plot pretty much a copy/paste of Marshall’s own Dog Soldiers, and although I appreciate the effort to use practical effects rather than entirely CGI for the monsters, they do not look good. Waste your time at your peril. 2/5

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy
Released: 2026
Director: Lee Cronin
Synopsis: After eight years missing a young girl returns to her family, though what happened to her has left her catatonic and possessed by an ancient evil.
Verdict: If you like a pretty straight-forward creepy, gory horror flick, this will likely be right up your street, but if you prefer a little more bark to your bite, you might come away a little disappointed by the end. It easily builds momentum and gives quite a shock as it falls into the second half, but then peters out before reaching a somewhat satisfying, if rather restrained, climax. 3/5
Read the full Lee Cronin’s The Mummy review.

Primate
Released: 2025
Director: Johannes Roberts
Synopsis: When a chimpanzee turns rabid, a group of college students find themselves under attack and unable to escape the huge house they’re stranded in in Hawaii.
Verdict: The premise is competely unoriginal, and unfortunately so is the film in general. The gore and body horror goes some way to make up for the lack of imagination in all other areas of the film, but it’s not enough to make it stand out. 2.5/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Primate review.

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Raw (French: Grave)
Released: 2016
Director: Julia Ducorneau
Synopsis: Justine (Garance Marillier) has been a vegetarian all her life. When she enters veterinary school, she comes in close contact with mean, and soon she develops a taste for it, but not from animals.
Verdict: Coming soon

Re-Animator
Released: 1985
Director: Stuart Gordon, based on Herbert West – Reanimator by H.P. Lovecraft
Synopsis: Medical student Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) creates a reagent that can bring the dead back to life, but as he begins to test his creation, he will find it has some severe side effects.
Verdict: If ever there were a body horror to end all other body horrors, this is the one. Other than a handful of scenes where the energy drops a little, it’s as solid a horror as they come. Taking a lot of inspiration from Frankenstein and a myriad of zombie films, Re-Animator stands on its own two feet with a decent story encased in fantastic VFX that will still gross out even the most hardened of gore fans. With strong performances and characters that are just as insane as the next, you’ll be troubled to find anything as well-made in this genre today. 4.5/5

Resident Evil series
Released: 2002-2016
Synopsis: Based on the video game series, the franchise mostly follows Alice (Milla Jovovich), a covert operative, as she works to take down the Umbrella Corporation, their bioweapons being responsible for a zombie outbreak.
Verdict: There’s no need to be entirely faithful to source material when making an adaptation, but this series falls so far from its source that it hardly earns the right to be called Resident Evil. The quality of the series is also so up and down that it gave me whiplash.
Check out DOTT’s Film Club: Resident Evil.

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
Released: 2021
Synopsis: Claire Redfield (Kaya Scodelario) returns to Raccoon City to warn her brother Chris (Robbie Amell), a cop, about Umbrella’s experiments on children. As she arrives, a zombie outbreak begins and Chris is sent to the Spencer Mansion to find out what happened, while Claire teams up with rookie cop Leon Kennedy (Avan Jogia) to escape the city.
Verdict: This attempted reboot doesn’t fair much better than its predecessors, struggling to find its own footing away from the game while keeping its fans close. The atmosphere is closer to the game, but it doesn’t have an identity of its own. 3/5
Check out DOTT’s Film Club: Resident Evil.

Resident Evil
Released: 2026
Synopsis: Bryan (Austin Abrams), a medical courier charged with transporting organ donations between hospitals, takes on one more delivery before calling it a night, heading to a hospital in Raccoon City. On a treacherously snowy road, he soon finds himself in a lot of trouble and being chased by mutated people as he does his darndest to complete his delivery.
Verdict: Finally a film worthy of the Resident Evil name, this adaptation strikes a good balance between game and film that ought to leave fans satisfied while inviting a new audience into the world of Raccoon City and the Umbrella Corporation. 4/5
Read the full Resident Evil review.

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Saw series
Released: 2004-present
Synopsis: Saw follows the “games”, i.e. torture, that serial killer John Kramer, aka Jigsaw, subjects his victims to in order to punish them/offer them redemption for actions that do not align with his personal morals. Kramer comes and goes, but he has apprentices that take up the Jigsaw mantel in his absence.
Verdict: As far as the gore and shocks go, Saw does them to the extreme, and so the series is not to be taken lightly. The story quality in each film varies, but the through-line of Jigsaw is always a terrifying, looming presence. The first film starts it all off very strongly, and the way the series blends horror and mystery keeps viewers on the edge of their seats.
Check out DOTT’s Film Club – Saw.

Slither
Released: 2006
Director: James Gunn
Synopsis: When an alien parasite comes to a small town and takes over peoples’ bodies, it’s up to Sheriff Bill (Nathan Fillion) to put an end to the infestation.
Verdict: Heavy comparisons of this film with others that depict alien creatures taking over human bodies aren’t entirely without merit, but other similar films don’t have the intentional comic streak that James Gunn injects into his films, nor the curated soundtrack that is a staple of a Gunn film. Yes, it doesn’t have the most original plot, but that matters a little less when there are fantastic practical effects and exceptional performances from Elizabeth Banks, Nathan Fillion and Michael Rooker. Watch this less for the story and more for the comedy and gross-out gore. 3.5/5

Species
Released: 1995
Director: Roger Donaldson
Synopsis: An alien-human hybrid female named Sil (Natasha Henstridge) escapes a government facility and is hunted down by a ragtag group of scientists and agents. They intend to destroy her before she mates with a human male and produces children with the potential to destroy humanity.
Verdict: Despite being mainly infamous for being based on sex and an abundance of nudity, Species does have its genuine moments of decent gore and action. Not to mention, with the hybrid itself designed by the Xenomorph’s own H.R. Giger, there’s something to be said for this alien creature feature at the end of it all. 3/5

Splice
Released: 2009
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Synopsis: Two young scientists working on the splicing of animal genes decide to experiment by adding in human genes, creating an animal-human hybrid. As the hybrid grows, it starts to become a danger, and even comes inbetween the scientists themselves.
Verdict: Much like the movie Species, which was a likely source of inspiration for Splice, this film derives much of its ‘horror’ from the idea of creating something using human genes, something that becomes a threat to humans. It certainly has its weird and grotesque moments, at times maybe taking things a little too far, but it does a decent enough job of showing the risks and consequences of ‘playing God’. 3/5

The Substance
Released: 2024
Director: Coralie Fargeat
Synopsis: Aging actress Elisabeth (Demi Moore) feels the effects of growing older in her industry, so when she is offered a mysterious ‘Substance’, she uses it to create a symbiotic younger version of herself named Sue (Qualley). While they are encouraged to think of themselves as ‘one’, they become separate entities intent on destroying one another.
Verdict: The film is shot magnificently, and Moore gives an exceptional performance. With excellent themes on the aging mentality and objectification of female bodies, a massive Cronenberg influence (which can only be a good thing) and fantastic prosthetics, this is one body horror film you don’t want to miss. 4/5
Read the Tiny Tapes The Substance review.

Sunshine
Released: 2007
Director: Danny Boyle
Synopsis: When the Sun starts to dim, the crew of the Icarus II are sent to restart it with a bomb and possibly find out what happened to the original Icarus I crew.
Verdict: Another Danny Boyle-Alex Garland collab set in an apocalyptic future, Sunshine is a classic Garland sci-fi with an Event Horizon-style twist that is suspenseful and thrilling if not so original. The majority of the cast are now actors at the top of their game, so it feels somewhat nostalgic to watch them in their earlier days, but even with their calibre it’s not enough to render strong connections with the characters or their mission. Perhaps this film was stronger back in 2007, but it’s not as timeless as other sci-fi films from a similar era. 3/5

Swamp Thing
Released: 1982
Director: Wes Craven
Synopsis: When his lab in a swamp is attacked and he is doused in a chemical he created, Dr. Alec Holland (Ray Wise) becomes the monsterous Swamp Thing. He wishes to exact revenge on the mastermind behind the attack, as well as protect Alice Cable (Adrienne Barbeau).
Verdict: As a film, Swamp Thing has a lot to offer in the way of adventure and intrigue, but as an adaptation of the graphic novels, it falls short of the novels’ depth and the Swamp Thing’s own internal journey, as well as adding odd scenes that don’t really make a lot of sense for either Holland’s or Swamp Thing’s character. 3/5

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They Will Kill You
Released: 2026
Director: Kirill Sokolov
Synopsis: Asia (Beetz) comes out of jail wanting to find her sister and ends up getting a job working as a maid in a building exclusively for the rich. It soon comes to light that the tenants are involved in some dark activities, and the maids play an important role that Asia isn’t entirely on board with.
Verdict: It’s a fun, silly, classic B-style horror, with plenty of gore and gruesome scenes to satiate the blood-thirsty viewers among us. The story isn’t the most original, but what it lacks in plot it slightly makes up for in action, dark comedy, and, well, blood. 3/5
Read the full They Will Kill You review.

The Thing
Released: 1982
Director: John Carpenter
Synopsis: In Antarctica, a group of scientists are besieged by an alien lifeform that can imitate anyone or anything, leaving the scientist in danger of it, as well as each other.
Verdict: One of the best body horrors ever made, The Thing adeptly uses the claustrophobic and isolated setting to instill fear into the characters and the audience from the off, building to frightful and gruesome transformations caused by the extraterrestrial organism. 4/5

Together
Released: 2025
Director: Michael Shanks
Synopsis: A couple move to the countryside where a supernatural occurrence affects their lives, from their relationship to their physical bodies.
Verdict: One of the best things about Together, and many decent horror films, is the blending of multiple sub-genres in an attempt to create something somewhat unique. With its combination of psychological, supernatural and body horror with a healthy sprinkling of comedy and even a dash of romance, it becomes its own hybrid in a genre that’s tough to stand out in. 4/5
Read the full Together review.

The Toxic Avenger
Released: 1984
Directors: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman
Synopsis: Nerdy outcast Melvin (Mark Torgl) is transformed into “the monster hero”, aka the Toxic Avenger (Mitch Cohen, Kenneth Kessler) after falling into toxic waste and exacts revenge on his bullies and generally fights crime.
Verdict: As superhero spoof movies go, it couldn’t have its tongue any further in its cheek. With its (dark at times) comedy and incredibly gruesome body horror, its takes things quite far in terms of joke and violence and has some awesome practical effects, especially during the transformation scene. It doesn’t really hold up too well now, but it has become a cult favourite. 3/5

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The Ugly Stepsister
Released: 2025
Director: Emilie Blichfeldt
Synopsis: After the passing of Agnes’s (Thea Sofie Loch Næss), aka Cinderella’s, father, her ‘evil’ step-mother begins to push her eldest daughter Elvira (Lea Myren) into more intense lessons, beauty regimes and surgical changes to make her more attractive to the opposite sex, the goal being to find a rich husband, at any cost.
Verdict: The extreme measures Elvira puts herself through, intiated by her mother, are truly horrific and reflective of the pain women will put themselves through to achieve the ‘perfect’ look. The performances are excellent, the story and characters well written, and the body horror scenes hard to look away from. 4/5
Read the Tiny Tapes The Ugly Stepsister review.

Under the Skin
Released: 2013
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Synopsis: An extraterrestrial Woman (Scarlett Johansson) preys on men in Scotland, but as she witnesses different sides of human behaviour, her icy attitude towards humans begins to thaw, which means putting herself in danger, too.
Verdict: A bizarre yet heavily themed film that has much in the way of social commentary while also being shocking and disturbing. Johansson’s performance is tremendous and a far cry from her usual Hollywood roles. She does have a few nude scenes, but none feel particularly sexual nor gratuitous – they all build the alien character and her actions. A strange yet intriguing film. 4/5