body horror

Industrial Nightmares Come to Life in Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Longtime readers know we here at Neon Dystopia like to refer to Tetsuo: The Iron Man quite a bit. However, it occurred to me recently that we haven’t given Shinya Tsukamoto’s cult series a proper revi...

Videodrome: Of Cyberpunk and Body Horror

Hello again my futuristic friends. This time I’ll by discussing my views on the 1983 film Videodrome, written and directed by the master of body horror himself, David Cronenberg. Synopsis: When ...

Cronenberg’s Simulacrum and the New Flesh

Body horror is a horror genre that is defined by graphic destruction, degeneration, or transformation of the human form. David Cronenberg is considered the master of this genre, and so it is fascinati...

Yoshimi’s Tokyo Restricted Area is the Soundtrack to Body Horror

The journey is long and arduous, but you don’t know what that means because you’re seven years old. Your mother said the word earlier and it stuck with you. You’ve been repeating it ...