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horror sub-genres • medical horror

medical horror can also meld with sci-fi, body horror, thrillers, psychological horror. and we see everything from mad scientists, to zombielike contamination, to plastic surgery, to diseases, and the realm of mental health.

The Living Dead Girl (1982) dir. Jean Rollin

— Franz Kafka // Richard Siken

"oh no, that's hot" - sexual awakening through horror - a gifset for every person who ever watched a scene in a horror movie that made them feel something they'd never felt before, knowing it wasn't the 'right' thing to feel.

rev my engine ‘til you make it purr (crash 1996)

“No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything that is alive. The difficulty is to convince someone else he is really part of you.”

Queer (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

who up wanting to change things that can't be changed

All body is body horror because having a body is scary. All psychology is psychological horror because thinking is scary. All survival is survival horror because being alive is scary.