Mutations and Metamorphoses: Body Horror is Biological Horror
Body horror, a genre trope that showcases often graphic violations of the human body, is also justifiably called biological horror. The true biological nature of the horror elicited by these films is here discussed in light of hybrids, metamorphoses, mutations, aberrant sex, and zombification.
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Archīum Ateneo
2012
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| Online Access: | https://archium.ateneo.edu/biology-faculty-pubs/55 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01956051.2012.654521 |
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| Institution: | Ateneo De Manila University |
| Summary: | Body horror, a genre trope that showcases often graphic violations of the human body, is also justifiably called biological horror. The true biological nature of the horror elicited by these films is here discussed in light of hybrids, metamorphoses, mutations, aberrant sex, and zombification. |
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