Mutations and Metamorphoses: Body Horror is Biological Horror

• Main Author: Cruz, Ronald Allan L
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2012
• Subjects: biological horror; body horror; evolution; hybrids; metamorphosis; mutation; zombies; Biology; Film and Media Studies; Science and Mathematics Education
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/biology-faculty-pubs/55; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01956051.2012.654521
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

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.