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“The Thing,” “The Fly” and the Best Body Horror Movies Ever

Forty years ago, John Carpenter released a horror movie called The Thing . In the early ‘80s, Hollywood seemed to be extremely interested in extraterrestrial life and the not-quite-human: in 1982 alone, three of the top 30 movies were E.T. , Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Blade Runner . 

The Thing , which is about a parasitic alien lifeform capable of mimicking other living organisms, was not as successful. It barely beat out its $15 million budget at the box office. It doesn’t have the sweetness or the optimism of E.T. ; it doesn’t have the world-building narrative charm of a Star Trek movie; it doesn’t have the cool, sci-fi crispness of Blade Runner . 

And yet here we are celebrating The Thing after four decades, because it has a long-lasting popularity that makes it nearly the equal of those aforementioned films. What it has instead of all of the stuff those other movies have is blood, guts and gore. It’s a body horror movie, which means it showcases grotesque changes to the human form. 

Body horror movies have an appeal that’s hard to explain in words, but is immediately understandable to anyone who has ever, for example, popped a zit. Movies —  The Thing among them — create a fantasy space where we can imagine the limits of what the human form can endure. Movies are thought experiments, narrative hypotheses. We wonder what would happen if… And we get lost in the possibilities of that. 

Body horror movies also seem to endure over time. The movies on this list were not often the biggest blockbusters when they came out, but they’ve gathered followers over the years. Something in them makes our skin crawl but that something also sticks with us — and we keep going back. Body horror movies are like the little sore in your mouth that you can’t stop touching with your tongue. But don’t worry! They’re just movies, right?

Dark Passage (1947)

Before we get into proper body horror films, I wanted to shout out this gem from 1947 by the great director Delmer Daves. It’s the story of a man who escapes from prison after being wrongfully convicted for murdering his wife. It’s also one of the four great movies that the real-life movie-star couple Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made together, and it’s worth watching for that reason alone. 

But what makes this movie really great is that for the first third of it, we see everything from the perspective of Vincent Parry (Bogart). That means we never see his face until — due to a convenient plot twist — he gets some shady plastic surgery in the middle of the night and a couple weeks later is revealed to look like, well, Humphrey Bogart. It’s a great movie joke — having Bogart play an unseen man who does not look like Bogart until he does. 

And yet there’s something creepy about it — about imagining someone’s face being altered to look like an entirely new person. It never sits quite right, and it’s part of what gives us the nagging sense that something’s wrong all the way through the film. Dark Passage has a happy ending, but to me it’s proto-body horror for the way it makes me squirm at the manipulation of the human form.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

I thought about including the 1978 remake of this film, but the purist in me wants to go with the original here. This movie, directed by Don Siegel, is an absolute masterpiece of the genre, and really as a movie, period. It concerns an alien invasion and involves plant seed pods that are able to grow exact visual copies of human beings. These “pod people” are devoid of life and personality — they just kind of wander around. 

There are two classic body horror things going on in Invasion of the Body Snatchers . One is just the idea that the people you see walking around might be possessed by some other intelligence that has stripped them of their agency or selfhood. That’s scary enough. But the other body horror element is the pods themselves. They’re gross! 

The Blob (1958)

We have no choice but to include The Blob , which also has the distinction of being the first starring role in the career of Steve McQueen, one of the greatest action stars of all time. The Blob is one of many movies in which some sort of alien goo crashes on Earth and begins expanding. In this case, the goo begins eating people and growing bigger and bigger as a result. 

Honestly, the technical capacity of filmmakers in the ‘50s means The Blob feels a little quaint in comparison to more recent body horror movies. Nevertheless, the idea absolutely works. The director, Irvin Yeaworth, shows us the titular blob only here and there — a mass of red, vaguely pulsing. Like all great horror directors though, he knows that what we don’t see is more terrifying. With this in mind, so much of the body horror is revealed to us through the reactions the characters have to what they see around them. 

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

We wrote about this movie in our “Bad Dads” Father’s Day roundup recently, but it deserves mention here for being the flagship film in the demonic pregnancy genre of body horror. It’s the story of Rosemary (Mia Farrow), a woman whose husband does the unthinkable and gives his family over to a satanic cult. 

Part of body horror is imagining that there’s something terrible inside of you, unseen. Rosemary’s Baby , as Rosemary’s paranoia mounts, makes you feel that fear to a sublime degree. It’s a film about possession and invasion, but, most troublingly, it’s also a film about choice. Rosemary doesn’t get to choose what’s happening inside of her body, and the decision she makes at the end of the movie shows the limitless capacity of a mother’s love.

Eraserhead (1977)

Another movie dealing with the emotional weight of parenthood, Eraserhead is nearly impossible to explain, plot-wise. It’s a dreamlike nightmare from the master of psychological horror, David Lynch. In fact, it was his first film, and that it was made as he himself was going through the emotional experience of raising a very young child is pretty creepy and troubling to consider.

The body horror elements are in the details. At dinner, a chicken that’s about to be carved moves and spurts blood, for example. The child itself is inhuman, reptilian and screaming. It really is a nightmare, but Lynch films can’t be experienced as simple narratives. It’s a curated series of moving images designed to unsettle and confuse you. It’s experimental, but the feeling in the end is pure body horror, as we are left deep in thought about the oddness of our physical selves. 

Altered States (1980)

One of the greatest performances by recently deceased movie star William Hurt was this hallucinogenic classic from 1980. Hurt plays Eddie Jessup, a psychopathologist at Columbia University who ends up using psychoactive drugs and sensory deprivation tanks to explore the limits of human consciousness. 

The results — this is a body horror movie, after all — are pretty horrifying. Jessup starts to experience the externalization of his visions; the things happening in his mind end up getting transferred into the real world. He begins to regress, turning into more and more primitive forms of life and consciousness. It’s wonderfully spooky to consider the possibility of your imagination becoming real — intoxicating and terrifying all at once. That’s what makes this movie such an exciting ride.

The Fly (1986)

As far as I’m concerned, David Cronenberg’s 1986 film The Fly is the archetype of the body horror genre. You could include lots of Cronenberg’s films here: Shivers , Rabid , The Brood , Scanners , Videodrome and a whole bunch of other films he’s made over the course of his career are body horror classics. The Fly is, in some ways, the simplest though. It asks: what happens if, by accident, you cross a man with a fly?

Jeff Goldblum plays Seth, a weirdo scientist who’s working on a bit of technology involving the teleportation of matter between two pods. Geena Davis is Ronnie, a journalist he ropes into covering his experiments. You’re not going to believe this, but Seth ends up trying to transport himself, and a fly buzzes into the pod at that exact moment. And then we’re off to the races. 

The movie gets to play with the classic elements of body horror: grotesque physical changes, experiments gone too far. It also gets to have some fun though. As Seth becomes more fly-like, he craves sugar and becomes inhumanly strong. In predictable fashion, he gets excited about the changes before he becomes afraid, but it’s too late. 

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

I don’t know if I’m recommending you watch Tetsuo: The Iron Man if you haven’t, but I can’t make a list of body horror movies without including it. It’s an incredibly low-budget independent Japanese film by Shinya Tsukamoto, and although it’s pretty brief — the run time is just over an hour — it’s a real ordeal to go through. 

The basic idea is that a man who’s obsessed with adding metal to his body ends up creating a monster who becomes increasingly metallic in nature. The monster isn’t a glistening, smooth metallic creation like the T-1000 in Terminator 2 though. It’s hideous and deformed, with metal protrusions of all shapes and sizes. 

In the end, the spread of this monster threatens to take over the entire planet, which is always the fear in these body horror transformations. But really this is an experiment in moods — the film is so frantic that it’s nearly impossible to follow, and you start to feel as though you’re watching a nightmare. When the scope widens out to the entire world, it’s jarring. You might have hoped this problem was local, but it’s global, and that’s the scariest part. 

Mimic (1997) 

This movie by visionary director Guillermo Del Toro deserves credit for flipping body horror tropes in a way I’m not sure I’ve seen elsewhere in movies. Instead of the humans being transformed, a novel species of cockroach evolves to mimic the look of humans. But this doesn’t mean the characters are dealing with walking, talking cockroaches. In fact, it’s much scarier.

The story is about a team of scientists, led by entomologist Dr. Susan Tyler (Mira Sorvino). Alongside the CDC, the team creates a new species to eradicate the cockroaches in New York City, which are spreading a deadly disease that afflicts children. The new species is supposed to be unable to breed, but, as we learned in Jurassic Park a few years earlier, “Life finds a way.” It’s a real thrill-ride of a movie, but the scariest part is the way the new cockroaches, which have grown to be man-sized, can fold their wings to mimic a man’s face. I’m telling you: you will have shivers down your spine the first time you see it.

Titane (2021)

We seem to have gone beyond the golden age of the body horror movie, but once in a while a new director comes along who carries on the legacy of body horror directors like John Carpenter and David Cronenberg. The most recent is Julia Ducournau, who directed her debut feature film, Raw , in 2016. It’s about a veterinarian student who develops a taste for flesh, so, yes, Ducournau is squarely in the body horror zone.

Titane , which came out last year, is the story of a girl who has a metal plate put in her skull after experiencing a horrific car accident as a child. She grows up to be a serial killer who has, well — let’s just call it a strange relationship with metal. The movie is a terrifying masterpiece, and it makes me really excited to see what’s next for Ducournau, who is the daughter of a gynecologist and a dermatologist , if you can believe it. 

The truth is that we understand so little about ourselves. Titane is a terrifying vision, yes, but so is getting old, if you really think about it. Our bodies are so familiar to us, but also so strange sometimes. Body horror movies are one way of exploring that strangeness. They’re about learning to accept what we can’t change, about remaining mysterious to ourselves, and that’s why we’ll always come back to them. 

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An early 25th century electronic boatswain's whistle

In nautical terms , the boatswain 's whistle or bosun's whistle was a small whistle that was used aboard old sailing ships , usually to gain the attention of the crew . Such devices were used aboard Starfleet vessels during the 23rd , 24th , and 25th centuries .

Constitution -class starships in the 23rd century used the sound of a boatswain's whistle to open shipboard communications via the ship's intercom . ( Star Trek: The Original Series ; ENT : " In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II ")

Aboard starships into the 24th century, it was normally used when an honored guest came aboard or at a crewmember 's funeral , when their body was released into space . The shrill whistle was often played before a ship-wide or open frequency communication , usually made by the captain or another senior officer . ( TNG : " Where No One Has Gone Before ", " Hide And Q ") The actual tone of the call has varied, as some captains preferred the distinctive notes of the electronic type over the more traditional metal whistle. ( TNG : " Lower Decks ")

In 2165 of an alternate timeline , a boatswain's whistle was blown by a crewman aboard Enterprise NX-01 , announcing the arrival of Jonathan Archer , T'Pol , and Phlox on the ship. ( ENT : " Twilight ")

In 2257 , the electronic signal was sounded as Captain Christopher Pike arrived on the bridge of the USS Enterprise along with an announcement of "Captain on the bridge." ( DIS : " Such Sweet Sorrow ")

In 2259 , an electronic boatswain's whistle was blown when Dak'Rah , a former Klingon general who defected to the Federation, boarded the USS Enterprise . ( SNW : " Under the Cloak of War ")

In the mid-23rd century aboard some Federation starships, the boatswain's whistle accompanied the commanding officer 's arrival onto his or her bridge: Captain Philippa Georgiou of the USS Shenzhou ( DIS : " Battle at the Binary Stars "); Acting Captain Saru of the USS Discovery ( DIS : " Will You Take My Hand? ", " New Eden "); Admiral Katrina Cornwell , acting captain of the Discovery ( DIS : " The War Without, The War Within "); and Captain Christopher Pike on the Discovery ( DIS : " New Eden ", " The Sound of Thunder ", " Light and Shadows ", " If Memory Serves ", " Project Daedalus ") and on the USS Enterprise . ( DIS : " Such Sweet Sorrow ", " Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2 ")

When an Excalbian replica of Abraham Lincoln came aboard the USS Enterprise , Lieutenant Dickerson blew a boatswain's whistle. ( TOS : " The Savage Curtain ")

An electronic boatswain's whistle was blown when Admiral James T. Kirk set foot on the Enterprise in 2285 . ( Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan )

Yeoman Burke blew a different electronic boatswain's whistle when the Klingon Chancellor Gorkon came aboard the USS Enterprise -A in 2293 . ( Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country )

The boatswain's whistle was blown in the shuttlebay when Captain Jean-Luc Picard took command of the USS Enterprise -D in early 2364 . ( TNG : " All Good Things... ")

That same year, the electronic signal sounded over the communications of the Enterprise -D as Lieutenant Commander Data issued an order to abandon ship. ( TNG : " 11001001 ")

In 2366 , the electronic signal sounded over the communications of the Enterprise -D when Commander William T. Riker warned the ship to brace themselves for a brief burst from the impulse drive as the inertial dampers were on manual. ( TNG : " Booby Trap ")

In 2367 , the electronic signal sounded over the communications of the Enterprise -D when Lieutenant Commander Data, in his role as acting captain, ordered all personnel to emergency shelter areas, as life support was being temporarily discontinued in other areas. ( TNG : " Night Terrors ")

In 2370 , Captain Picard sounded the electronic signal before informing the crew of the Enterprise -D of the loss of Ensign Sito Jaxa . ( TNG : " Lower Decks ")

The boatswain's whistle was blown in 2372 during a memorial for Kurt Bendera , killed during a Kazon-Nistrim attack. ( VOY : " Alliances ")

In 2373 , Captain Kathryn Janeway hallucinated her own death and funeral aboard the USS Voyager when a non-corporeal being tried to convince her she was dead, at which Crewman William McKenzie blew the whistle during her memorial. ( VOY : " Coda ")

In 2375 , Nog blew the boatswain's whistle, at the wedding of Kasidy Yates and Benjamin Sisko , right before Kasidy entered the wardroom . Odo complimented him on his playing, despite Nog only having had twenty minutes to learn it. ( DS9 : " 'Til Death Do Us Part ")

The boatswain's whistle was blown at the belated funeral of Lieutenant John Kelly . ( VOY : " One Small Step ")

In 2401 , an officer aboard the USS Titan -A used an electronic boatswain's whistle to announce the arrival of Admiral Jean-Luc Picard and Captain William T. Riker, both of whom were visitors to the Titan -A. ( PIC : " The Next Generation ")

In 3189 , the boatswain's whistle sounded aboard the USS Discovery as Michael Burnham entered the bridge and assumed her role as the vessel's new captain. ( DIS : " That Hope Is You, Part 2 ")

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Why don't they say "Captain on the Bridge" every time a captain enters the bridge?

Discussion in ' General Trek Discussion ' started by WildManWizard , Dec 16, 2019 .

DonIago Vice Admiral Admiral

I rather think the opposite might be the case, where a crew that doesn't observe the 'custom' grows relaxed about it to the point that when they do observe it they're out of practice. For instance, I usually don't need to wear formal attire at work, so when I do, I have to go through a whole process of 'Right, do I have everything I need? Does my tie look good? Where on Earth did I leave my shoes?'  

The Wormhole Fleet Admiral Admiral

DonIago said: ↑ I rather think the opposite might be the case, where a crew that doesn't observe the 'custom' grows relaxed about it to the point that when they do observe it they're out of practice. Click to expand...

valkyrie013 Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

For real Life, and guessing in Trek, its up to the commander.. someone more militeristic would have that said everytime he entered the bridge. but someone who is a bit more lax may only do it when they come back from a refit, or leave or something special.. in ST 2, being a cadet ship, when the admiral shows up on the bridge, in an advisory role, he's probably announced every time. when he took command, it didn't happen. Or maybe its said when the captain first gets on duty, like he gets there at 7am, and the gamma shift officer says it when he comes in. I remember Data doing that when the captain came in at like 3am to the bridge.  

fireproof78 Fleet Admiral Admiral

The Wormhole said: ↑ As someone who attended a school that did require the kids to stand at attention for the national anthem, I can confirm developing a resentful attitude as a result. Click to expand...

XCV330 ★ Premium Member

The same reason they don't show someone playing that bosun whistle every single time it is called for (though it is heard more often in TOS, anyway).  

Jedman67 Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

I would imagine that a theoretical Navy skipper would require the forms observed - i.e. "captain on the bridge" and logging it; without requiring whoever does the announcing to stand at attention, salute and shout the words every time he gets back from the head. TLDR, you can retain the practice without making it into a big deal.  

Tim Thomason Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

I count 23 instances across the series and two instances of "Admiral on the Bridge" (Star Trek II and The Measure of a Man). Starfleet, as emphasized in episodes like Chain of Command and throughout Discovery, is more casual and less formal in their regulations than militaries tend to be. "Nightingale" tells us specifically that the Captain announcement is standard Starfleet protocol, although Harry Kim was surprised when someone gave it to him (as Acting Captain of the Nightingale in the episode).  

Tenacity Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

JÓLAKÖTTURINN said: ↑ I imagine it would get very tiresome very quick and add absolutely nothing to the story. Click to expand...

Abbey Chrimble said: ↑ Mod in the thread! (Now I like that....) Click to expand...

tharpdevenport Admiral Admiral

Every bit of that draws away stuff that'll have to be cut to keep the episode to the length required to fit commercials. Plus, after a while it'll just become this:  

Greg Cox Admiral Premium Member

Story-wise, it does seem like a waste of time. Lord knows I don't want to have to type "Captain on the bridge" every time Kirk sets foot on the bridge.  

tharpdevenport said: ↑ Every bit of that draws away stuff that'll have to be cut to keep the episode to the length required to fit commercials. Plus, after a while it'll just become this: Click to expand...

hbquikcomjamesl Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

Yes, and we'd look like a bunch of Dinks.  

Kor Fleet Admiral Admiral

Because it would break the narrative flow if it was said every single time the Captain entered the bridge. Kor  

Danja Commodore Commodore

Jed-Gelt-67 said: ↑ "We ain't found SHIT!" Click to expand...

FormerLurker Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

Danja said: ↑ Look busy! Click to expand...

JonnyQuest037 Vice Admiral Admiral

cultcross What?! Moderator

Can you imagine how annoying it would be for Picard or Janeway who have ready rooms just off the bridge that can only be accessed through the bridge? "Captain on the bridge" "Captain off the bridge again"  

Grendelsbayne Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

I would say this is something that should be done every time a new captain/admiral arrives on the ship - but beyond that it would be pretty much entirely at the discretion of the ship's co. Having said that, I highly doubt any starfleet captain, even Jellico, would ever require it to be spoken every single time they enter the bridge. Even for a regulations stickler, it's mostly just a waste of time.  

Laura Cynthia Chambers Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

Regarding making a record - the computer probably automatically logs who goes where and when, so you don't have to announce it all the time. It's really only said when the writers stick it in there, or if it adds something to the scene (depending on how it's said). If the captain returns after a long absence due to illness, injury, or MIA, say it with relief and joy. Or if they don't like the captain, say it grudgingly. If there's a change of captains, say it haltingly, as though full of emotion and grief over the last captain, or happily, if the last guy was lousy. Etc. Whatever serves the situation at hand best.  

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