Body Horror Movies of the 1990s
Body horror turns flesh, transformation and decay into the source of dread. Postmodern and self-aware, with Scream and a wave of Asian horror arriving at the end. Standouts from the 1990s include Event Horizon, Death Becomes Her and Midori.
Event Horizon (1997)
Rated 6.6 on TMDB
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage.
See where it’s streamingDeath Becomes Her (1992)
Rated 6.8 on TMDB
Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once her arch-rival Helen's fiancé. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest.
See where it’s streamingMidori (1992)
Rated 6.0 on TMDB
After losing her parents, young flower selling Midori is put up by a fairground group.
See where it’s streamingJason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
Rated 4.6 on TMDB
Jason Voorhees is tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, reborn with the bone-chilling ability to assume the identity of anyone he touches.
See where it’s streamingThe Faculty (1998)
Rated 6.6 on TMDB
When creepy things start happening at Herrington High, the students begin to suspect that their faculty is being controlled by body-snatching aliens.
See where it’s streamingGremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Rated 6.5 on TMDB
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo.
See where it’s streamingReturn of the Living Dead III (1993)
Rated 6.6 on TMDB
Having recently witnessed the horrific results of a top secret project to bring the dead back to life, a distraught teenager performs the operation on his girlfriend after she's killed in a…
See where it’s streamingMimic (1997)
Rated 6.1 on TMDB
A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill…
See where it’s streamingRiki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Rated 6.8 on TMDB
In 2001, where all correctional facilities have been privatized, martial artist Ricky finds himself victim to the corrupt system, found "guilty" of the manslaughter of an infamous crime boss.
See where it’s streamingThinner (1996)
Rated 5.9 on TMDB
An obese lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old Romani man places a hex on him.
See where it’s streamingRavenous (1999)
Rated 6.8 on TMDB
After arriving at his new, remote Army outpost, Capt. John Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide – a vicious…
See where it’s streamingThe Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
Rated 4.9 on TMDB
After surviving a plane crash caused by a magnetic storm, United Nations attorney Edward Douglas stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab…
See where it’s streamingResurrection (1999)
Rated 6.1 on TMDB
A jaded homicide detective has been put on the case of a ruthless killer in the city of Chicago, who leaves a trail of horribly mutilated and dismembered corpses along with perversely ironic biblical…
See where it’s streamingBegotten (1991)
Rated 6.0 on TMDB
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
See where it’s streaming964 Pinocchio (1991)
Rated 6.0 on TMDB
While wandering around Japan, defective sex cyborg Pinocchio encounters Kyoko, another amnesiac burdened with a terrible secret tied to her amnesia.
See where it’s streamingBats (1999)
Rated 4.6 on TMDB
Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.
See where it’s streamingPhantoms (1998)
Rated 5.6 on TMDB
In the peaceful Colorado town of Snowfield, something evil has wiped out the community. And now, it's up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
See where it’s streamingSplatter: Naked Blood (1996)
Rated 5.8 on TMDB
A scientist taints his mother's scientific experiment with his own drug that transforms pain into a pleasurable experience.
See where it’s streamingInitiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4 (1990)
Rated 4.3 on TMDB
A reporter investigating the bizarre death of a woman who leaped from a building in flames finds herself mixed up in a cult of witches who are making her part of their sacrificial ceremony during the…
See where it’s streamingThe Phantom of the Opera (1998)
Rated 4.6 on TMDB
A series of terrifying accidents and brutal murders leave a bloody trail into the subterranean caverns of an Opera house. Below the theatre stalks a man raised by creatures of the underworld.
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