# The best body horror movies

Mutations, transformations and flesh that won't behave: the body horror films that keep topping the rankings, from Cronenberg's The Fly to The Substance, according to CBR, Collider and Creepy Catalog.

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- Oct 6, 2025 · Katie Hughes
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## Top 12

1. **The Fly (1986)** (165 · ▲175 ▼10) — David Cronenberg: Jeff Goldblum's scientist slowly becomes something else.
2. **The Thing (1982)** (135 · ▲150 ▼15) — John Carpenter: an Antarctic base and a creature that can imitate anyone.
3. **The Substance (2024)** (124 · ▲137 ▼13) — Coralie Fargeat: Demi Moore tries a black-market drug that creates a younger self.
4. **An American Werewolf in London (1981)** (95 · ▲106 ▼11) — John Landis and Rick Baker's landmark werewolf transformation.
5. **Videodrome (1983)** (92 · ▲105 ▼13) — Cronenberg again: James Woods and a TV signal that rewrites the body.
6. **Titane (2021)** (84 · ▲98 ▼14) — Julia Ducournau's Palme d'Or winner about a woman, a car and a strange pregnancy.
7. **Eraserhead (1977)** (82 · ▲94 ▼12) — David Lynch's industrial nightmare about a man and his malformed baby.
8. **Re-Animator (1985)** (67 · ▲91 ▼24) — Stuart Gordon's gory H. P. Lovecraft adaptation about bringing the dead back.
9. **Under the Skin (2013)** (67 · ▲85 ▼18) — Jonathan Glazer: Scarlett Johansson as an alien luring men in Scotland.
10. **Slither (2006)** (57 · ▲75 ▼18) — James Gunn's slimy, funny alien-parasite invasion of a small town.
11. **Tusk (2014)** (54 · ▲70 ▼16) — Kevin Smith's tale of a podcaster turned into a walrus.
12. **Dead Ringers (1988)** (49 · ▲65 ▼16) — Jeremy Irons plays twin gynaecologists sliding into madness.
13. **The Brood (1979)** (39 · ▲68 ▼29) — Early Cronenberg: rage therapy that takes a monstrous physical form.

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