While cinema may be body horror's hearth, the subgenre has blossomed in a variety of mediums. As Cronenberg himself said, "You have to realize that almost all of filmmaking is body." In many ways, film being a larger-than-life visual medium offers the perfect vessel for provocative, gut-churning explorations of the human form. This isn't a surprise given that the term "body horror" was first used in 1983 by Phillip Brophy in an article describing a revelatory period for contemporary horror films. It's names like David Cronenberg, Stuart Gordon, Brian Yuzna, and most recently, Julia Ducournau. So much so that when we discuss masters of the subgenre, the list is usually composed entirely of filmmakers.
Although it has roots in Gothic fiction, body horror is most readily associated with cinema.
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