The By the end of the 1980s David Cronenberg was the certified king of body horror

after over a decade long run of innovative gross- out horror films that included the brood, scanners,

video drome and the fly, it could appear that no other filmmaker would have come close

when it comes to the sub-genre.

However, there were many other interesting directors through the 80s, also making boundary

pushing body horrors in North America and a little further afield.

In the US, filmmaker Stuart Gordon was making mind-melting

Lovecraft adaptations like Reanimator and From Beyond, which were filled to the brim

with grotesque images that shocked and upset the sensors.

But it was actually Stuart Gordon's producer,

Brian Usner, who then had a go at making his own body horror film in 1989, which is now often

crowned as one of the most grotesque films ever made. Meanwhile over in Japan, an indie filmmaker Shinyu Sukamotooto created a 67 minute low-budget experimental film with his

mates that to this day remains one of the most viscerally powerful shocking and influential body horrors ever made.

Join me as we continue exploring the mind and body and we discuss Brian Usner's society and

Shinya Succomoto's Tetsuumoto the Iron Man.

Welcome back to the evolution of horror.

My name is Mike and as ever I am your host. If you're

tuning in for the first time then welcome. In this podcast we explore and

dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre by looking at

particular sub-jomras one series at a time.

We are currently in the middle of our journey through the mind and body,

and this is part 15, in which, as that intro suggested, we're going to be looking at two gross body horrors

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