![]() ![]() This one has the unique honor of being both modification and surgical body horror! Mary discovers she can make loads of money just by performing surgical modification procedures on members of the extreme body modification community. If you haven’t seen this one, I highly recommend it – it’s a lot of fun, and Sarah Brightman’s Blind Mag is GLORIOUS.įinally, American Mary, directed by the Twisted Twins Jen and Sylvia Soska has Mary (played by Katharine Isabelle), a med student struggling to stay afloat turning to the world of extreme body modification in order to make ends meet. Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, this 2008 horror musical tells the story of a future in which a worldwide health epidemic leads to the rise in an organ-financing conglomerate – where we leave behind the world of biomechanical body horror and enter surgical however (and I’m sure you can already suss out how frequently these two play together), is in the repossession clauses these organ transplant financing programs all have – see, if a payment is missed, the company, GeneCo can come and surgically repossess. ![]() Like Tusk, it doesn’t take itself overly seriously. It is fairly extreme, but it is also a lot of fun. ![]() Repo! The Genetic Opera feels like a good segue between Tusk and American Mary. These films haven’t exactly gotten a lot of love critically, but…since when did we care about that, right? We make our own opinions ‘round here – we don’t take them from critics! I honestly can’t fathom what part of “guy (Justin Long) is kidnapped, drugged, and forcibly transformed into a patchwork walrus so a crazy old man (Michael Parks) can either cuddle him or outright fuck him (I’m a little fuzzy on that part still)” one would take umbrage with! Tusk is part of Kevin Smith’s True North Trilogy. Oh, and there are actually like 50 shades of A Nightmare on Elm Street here – the villain is flesh and blood, granted but trust me – there are a surprising number of similarities. In this film, which I have probably seen 60 or so times (thank you, high school Angie), the villainous sadist Captain Howdy (played by Snider) uses internet chat rooms to lure unwilling victims to his house of literal horrors, where he holds them captive and uses forced body modification and ritual pain in order to help them reach ‘enlightenment.’ The thing I find most interesting about this film is the way that despite how it may sound on paper, it doesn’t actually villainize the extreme modification community in any way – if anything, it is more a scathing indictment of the indifferent criminal justice and mental health care systems in the US. Strangeland is a Dee Snider written, John Pieplow directed horror/thriller harking back to the good old days of 1998 when the internet was a terrifying, rather than just mildly sickening, but occasionally amazing place. Sometimes people are being modified against their will, and sometimes it’s what they want for better or worse, but no matter what, the modifications are always so extreme as to not be something that professional body modification artists or medical professionals can or would legally or ethically do. Think or movies like Strangeland, Tusk, Repo! The Genetic Opera, or American Mary for good examples of the subgenre. However, in order to qualify as horror, the modding has to be a bit more extreme than all that, or not of the modified’s own free will. ![]() Think ear pointing, body piercings, implants, and the like. So, let’s start with body modification – this covers the territory of body modifications that might involve piercing or even be surgical in nature. This lesson will cover intentional body modification and medical body horror – so strap in folks, cuz shit’s gonna get weird. No? How about The Body Horror Learning Annex? Is that better? Ugh, whatever. Welcome back to the International School of Body Horror – which is what I’m calling this for absolutely no reason whatsoever. ![]()
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