
Sub-genre
Body Horror
🫀 Every body horror title worth your dread, gathered and ranked by the Crypt Score — our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and viewer reviews.
525 titles

The Terminal Man
›PG1974 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 107m · George Segal, Joan Hackett, Richard Dysart
As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. The procedure is not entirely successful.

First Man into Space
›NR1959 · Science Fiction, Horror, Drama · 77m · Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards
The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside...

Primal Rage
›R1988 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 92m · Patrick Lowe, Cheryl Arutt, Sarah Buxton
A scientist at a Florida university inadvertently creates a "rage virus" while performing experiments intended to restore dead brain tissue in baboons. When a journalist for the college paper breaks into the campus lab, he's bitten by one of the infected baboons; the virus soon spreads to a trio of rapists and a valley girl, all of whom go on killing sprees.

Divinity
›NR2023 · Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror · 94m · Stephen Dorff, Moisés Arias, Jason Genao
Two brothers crash into the decaying Earth to stop a capitalist from manufacturing an immortality serum, which is synthesized utilizing heinous methods and leaving an increasingly dire infertility rate in its wake.

Subject Two
›2006 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 93m · Christian Oliver, Dean Stapleton, Courtney Mace
A doctor invents a resurrection formula and tests it by killing his assistant over and over and over again.

The Manster
›1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 73m · Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Tetsu Nakamura
An American journalist stationed in Japan is given a mysterious injection by a mad scientist, turning him into a murderous, two-headed monster.

Victim
›2010 · Horror · 74m · Stephen Weigand, Bob Bancroft, Brendan Kelly
After being mysteriously kidnapped by a Doctor and his violent henchman, a young man is held captive in the converted cellar of an old mansion. For reasons unknown, he's forced to endure heinous physical and psychological torture, but slowly realizes the worst is yet to come when the Doctor's brutal plan for him is finally revealed….

Steel and Lace
›R1991 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 94m · Clare Wren, Bruce Davison, Stacy Haiduk
After her attackers go free, Gaily Morton, the victim of a vicious assault, commits suicide. Her vengeful brother, brilliant robotics engineer and scientist, Dr. Albert Morton, decides to use his skills to enact vengeance, transplanting his sister's brain into a humanoid cyborg with bone-crushing strength and an array of built-in torture devices...

Hypochondriac
›NR2022 · Horror, Drama · 96m · Zach Villa, Devon Graye, Madeline Zima
A young potter’s life devolves into chaos as he loses function of his body while being haunted by the physical manifestation of his childhood trauma.

Blood Salvage
›R1990 · Horror, Comedy · 98m · Danny Nelson, Lori Birdsong, Christian Hesler
Twisted tale about a crazy, preaching redneck named Jake who kidnaps people off the highway and performs sick medical experiments on them. He then proceeds to sell their organs on the black market to Mr. Stone. Everything is fine until he kidnaps the handicapped April and finds that she is harder to control than the others.

Hands of a Stranger
›NR1962 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Paul Lukather, Joan Harvey, James Noah
A concert pianist loses his hands in a car crash, but a surgeon gives him new ones. The experimental medical procedure goes awry when the new hands drive the pianist mad.

The Invasion
›PG-132007 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 99m · Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jackson Bond
Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that transforms anyone who comes into contact with it into unfeeling drones while they sleep. Carol realizes her son holds the key to stopping the spread of the plague and she races to find him before it is too late.

Clown
›R2014 · Horror, Thriller · 99m · Andy Powers, Laura Allen, Peter Stormare
A loving father finds a clown suit for his son's birthday party, only to realize the suit is part of an evil curse that turns its wearer into a killer.

Wolf Man
›R2025 · Horror, Thriller · 103m · Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Matilda Firth
With his marriage fraying, Blake persuades his wife Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit his remote childhood home in rural Oregon. As they arrive at the farmhouse in the dead of night, they're attacked by an unseen animal and barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. But as the night stretches on, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable.

Leviathan
›R1989 · Adventure, Horror, Thriller · 98m · Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays
Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by one.

Return of the Fly
›1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 80m · Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, John Sutton
Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle François attempt to create a matter transmission device on their own. However, their experiments have disastrous results, turning Philippe into a horrible half-man, half-fly creature.

Xtro
›R1982 · Science Fiction, Horror · 86m · Philip Sayer, Bernice Stegers, Danny Brainin
Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't trust Sam, and Rachel can't quite decide what her feelings are for her two men. Sam is not the same as when he left, and he begins affecting Tony in frightening ways.

The Puppet Masters
›R1994 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 109m · Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner
The Midwest USA is invaded by stingray-shaped alien slugs that ride on people's backs and control their minds in order to spread their dominion. Government agency reps Sam Givens, Andrew Nivens, and Mary Sefton must stop the aliens.

Appendage
›R2023 · Horror · 94m · Hadley Robinson, Emily Hampshire, Kausar Mohammed
After hitting a breaking point, Hannah's inner thoughts physicalize into a monstrous creature that threatens to upend her life.

Body Parts
›R1991 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Jeff Fahey, Lindsay Duncan, Kim Delaney
A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have their missing limbs replaced by those belonging to an executed serial killer. One of them dies violently, and disturbing occurrences start happening to the surviving two.

Alyce Kills
›NR2011 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Jade Dornfeld, Amara Zaragoza, James Duval
After accidentally knocking her best friend off a roof, Alyce is haunted by guilt and delves into a brutal nightmare wonderland of sex, drugs and violence, her mind tearing itself apart… along with anyone else who gets in her way.

The Nest
›R1988 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror · 89m · Robert Lansing, Lisa Langlois, Franc Luz
Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.

The Creature Walks Among Us
›1956 · Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Rex Reason, Jeff Morrow, Leigh Snowden
Scientists surgically transform the Creature into an air-breather, but being able to live on land is not enough to make him comfortable with humans. Enraged, he turns his wrath on anyone who comes near as he desperately tries to return to the deep-water world where he truly belongs.

Hall
›2022 · Horror, Thriller · 80m · Carolina Bartczak, Yumiko Shaku, Mark Gibson
When a hotel hallway is ravaged by a dreadful airborne virus, pregnant Japanese runaway wife Naomi is tragically thrust into the fight of her life. After getting infected, she is forced to crawl her way through other helpless victims to escape. In the room next door to her is Val, a mother trapped in a toxic marriage, who must also navigate her way out of the hotel corridor through the long and narrow stretch of isolated carnage, desperately looking for her young daughter Kelly. Will these two women avoid the debilitating sickness and get out alive?
