
Smile
2022 · MovieDr. Rose Cotter encounters a patient mid-psychotic episode involving a smiling figure and after the patient's suicide, the same experience transfers to her.
Cronenberg called it "the new flesh." That phrase still holds. Curated body horror covers transformation, mutation, and the deeply unsettling idea that the body you're living in isn't entirely yours. These films get under the skin, sometimes literally.

Dr. Rose Cotter encounters a patient mid-psychotic episode involving a smiling figure and after the patient's suicide, the same experience transfers to her.

Rose Cotter returns under a different identity while a detective investigating a serial killer finds connections to the same smiling phenomenon.

A medical simulation horror game where you perform operations on sedated patients to fix their defects and make them HAPPY. The imperfect don't stay that way for long.

Billy Warlock is popular, wealthy, and increasingly uneasy about the life he's been living. The more he looks, the more wrong things get.

A Pittsburgh woman with no religious faith suffers the wounds of the crucifixion. A Vatican investigator arrives to find out why.

A family driving through rural Texas encounters Leatherface on a remote property.

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Dr. Alan Feinstone has built a precise, controlled life and one morning's discovery destabilizes all of it, sending him to see rot and contamination everywhere, including in his patients.

A handful of outsiders at Herrington High start comparing notes on their teachers' behavior and arrive at an explanation that sounds impossible and turns out to be accurate.

Seth Brundle has built a working teleporter and decides to test it on himself. The machine doesn't account for a passenger.

Seth Brundle's son was born already changing, raised inside a Bartok Industries lab that has very specific plans for what he's becoming.

A German surgeon connects several people surgically into a continuous human chain. The film's concept is its primary content.

Martin has watched the original Human Centipede so many times he's decided to build his own. He's not a surgeon, and that's very much the point.

Dr. Angelo turns a mentally disabled gardener into his test subject for a virtual reality intelligence experiment. Jobe gets smarter than intended, and a lot less interested in staying inside the simulation.

Osgood Perkins adapts Stephen King's The Monkey with the dark comedy register fully engaged. Brothers discover a childhood toy with a deadly connection.

Dr. Jekyll's monster is discovered in ancient Egypt, brought to London, and things don't stay controlled.

Joanna Eberhart moves her family to a suburb called Stepford and notices something unusual about the wives there. They seem happy in ways that don't quite add up.

Joanna Eberhart's career implodes and her husband relocates the family to the perfect suburb of Stepford. The wives there seem engineered rather than merely content.

Sue Morrow injects the Substance and creates a second younger version of herself. The two halves must share existence within the program's strict rules.

A research team in Antarctica takes in a stray dog from a neighboring camp. What comes out of that dog is a very different problem.
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