Body Horror movies available on 4K Blu-ray, ranked by transfer quality.
dir. Ridley Scott
The transfer finally gets the color timing right after years of home video versions that never matched the theatrical. Looks really good on an OLED. The Aliens 4K got hit with AI upscaling controversy, but the original Alien's transfer is clean. The Filmarena steelbook is the collector's item if you can find one, otherwise the standard 4K is the same disc.
20th Century Studios · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Ken Russell
S-Tier Criterion 4K. Collectors had been asking for this for years and Criterion delivered. William Hurt's performance and the hallucinatory sequences look wild in HDR.
Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Alex Garland
S-Tier Paramount 4K. The Shimmer sequences in HDR look wild. An early Paramount 4K release that remains one of their best transfer jobs.
Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Luca Guadagnino
S-Tier Shout Factory 4K. Luca Guadagnino's cannibal love story. The American road trip photography works well in HDR.
Shout! Factory · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou
S-Tier A24 4K. A24's pricing is a sore point for collectors.
A24 · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Ruggero Deodato
S-Tier 88 Films 4K. Deodato's notorious film. The 88 Films release is the way to go. Some people are still happy with their Grindhouse Blu-ray and skipping the upgrade.
88 Films · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. David Cronenberg
S-Tier Second Sight Films 4K. Cronenberg's late-career body horror. Second Sight's limited edition is the way to go.
Second Sight Films · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Stuart Gordon
S-Tier 88 Films 4K. Stuart Gordon's Lovecraft adaptation. 88 Films got it on 4K after it was hard to find on disc.
dir. Brandon Cronenberg
S-Tier Second Sight Films 4K with a 4.5 score. Brandon Cronenberg's body-horror thriller, and one of the most underrated horror films of the 2020s. Second Sight's limited edition had people double-dipping from the basic US release. Someone's copy from Diabolik came signed by the director unexpectedly. Green Room is getting the same Second Sight 4K treatment.
dir. Parker Finn
Paramount S-Tier 4K. The Atmos track on the Smile 2 disc is the reason to own this physically. Naomi Scott carries the sequel and most people think it's a step up from the first, though opinions split.
dir. Tim Burton
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
dir. Michael Philippou, Danny Philippou
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
Lionsgate · 4K + Blu-ray
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.
dir. Robert Rodriguez
When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make the chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions: their teachers really are from another planet!
Scream Factory · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Alexandre Aja
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.
Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. William Sachs
An astronaut exposed to cosmic rays outside of Saturn's rings returns to Earth and begins to melt away. Escaping from the hospital, he wanders around the backwoods looking for human flesh to eat.
Vinegar Syndrome · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Dan O'Bannon
When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.
dir. Coralie Fargeat
A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
Eagle Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Tobe Hooper
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
dir. Emilie Blichfeldt
In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.
Second Sight Films · Limited Edition
dir. George Waggner
After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.
Universal Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Claire Denis
Newlyweds Shane and June arrive in Paris for their honeymoon. In the process of trying to find a cure for his strange, bloodthirsty disease, Shane stumbles upon the story of a doctor and his flesh eating wife.
Eureka Entertainment · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Demián Rugna
When brothers Pedro and Jimi discover that a demonic infection has been festering in a nearby farmhouse, they attempt to evict the victim from their land. Failing to adhere to the proper rites of exorcism, their reckless actions inadvertently trigger an epidemic of possessions across their rural community.
dir. Joe D'Amato
A priest-doctor chasing a man with supernatural regenerative abilities, who has recently escaped from a medical lab, reaches a small town where the mutant goes on a killing spree.
dir. Lee Cronin
A-Tier Arrow Video 4K. The 2023 Evil Dead entry. Arrow has the UK 4K.
Paramount's 4K for Smile looks solid, with the HDR doing good work in the darker scenes. The steelbook has been as low as $20 USD at Best Buy.
dir. Roger Donaldson
88 Films A-Tier 4K. The boutique packaging from 88 Films landed well, and the disc looks good for a mid-90s sci-fi horror title. Collector interest is light but the people who own it seem happy with the release.
dir. Val Guest
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.
dir. Rob Jabbaz
A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they attempt to be reunited amid the chaos of a pandemic outbreak. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things imaginable.
A radio host is victimised by the notorious cannibal family while a former Texas Marshal hunts them.
dir. John Carpenter
Carpenter's practical effects hold up better than most modern CGI and the Universal 4K is A-Tier, though the missing Dolby Vision is the one complaint collectors have. Signed copies from convention appearances are circulating and the Titans of Cult edition has been restocking through Books-a-Million.
dir. Leigh Whannell
With his marriage fraying, Blake persuades his wife Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit his remote childhood home in rural Oregon. As they arrive at the farmhouse in the dead of night, they're attacked by an unseen animal and barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. But as the night stretches on, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable.
Tourists take a boat to a remote island, where they find that most of the people have disappeared, and something is stalking them. They find a hidden room in the big mansion on a hill, and an ancient diary, which gives them clues to the source of the terror.
dir. Jacques Tourneur
C-Tier Criterion 4K. Val Lewton's horror classic. The transfer is middling for a Criterion release.
Criterion Collection · Blu-ray
dir. Brett Ratner
Most of the discussion around Red Dragon circles back to Manhunter instead. Collectors keep asking when Mann's version will get a proper 4K, and Red Dragon threads reliably turn into Manhunter appreciation posts. The Kino disc is competent but the C-Tier rating reflects Brett Ratner's direction more than the transfer itself.
Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Jonny Campbell
When a mutating, highly contagious fungus escapes a sealed facility, two employees – joined by a grizzled bioterror operative – must survive the wildest night shift ever to save humanity from extinction.
StudioCanal · 4K Ultra HD
dir. John Alan Schwartz
What question has plagued mankind more than the mystery—and terror—of death? This forbidden pursuit has driven Dr. Frances B. Gröss to the brink of madness, but in his obsession, he has amassed a uniquely comprehensive collection of films that depict life in its final, grueling moments. From the savagery of cold-blooded murder to the perverse realities of war, tragic accidents, and the everyday lives of those who collect, dissect, and bury the dead, this descent into morbidity lays bare a truth that all of us will one day face.
dir. Frank Henenlotter
Synapse 4K is getting real enthusiasm, with people calling it 'outstanding' and posting detailed impressions. Henenlotter films don't often get transfers that match the energy of the source material, and this one apparently does.
Synapse Films · Limited Edition
dir. Xavier Gens
A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.
Second Sight Films · 4K Ultra HD
dir. Sasha Rainbow
When an awkward but brilliant Chinese student wins a scholarship into a prestigious New Zealand University, she finds a new way of achieving the popularity she craves one bloody body at a time.
Vinegar Syndrome · Limited Edition
dir. György Pálfi
Set over three generations and beginning with a sexually frustrated orderly during WWII who relieves his tensions in the most outlandish, gross ways. The result of his liaison is a glutton who grows up to be a champion speed eater. He produces a child who becomes obsessed with taxidermy.
dir. David Blue Garcia
After nearly 50 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorize a group of idealistic influencers who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded world in a remote Texas town.
dir. Marcus Nispel
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
dir. Jonathan Liebesman
Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills one of the bikers and brings Chrissie's friends to the Hewitt homestead, where young Leatherface is learning the tools of terror.
dir. Lucio Fulci
The financially strained and increasingly desperate, Lester Parsons concocts a brilliant get-rich-quick scheme; cruise the lonely hearts ads for rich women to fleece. Too bad then, that Lester’s also a psychotic cannibal who enjoys mutilating these lovelorn souls, via his trusty chainsaw, and using their flesh for his dinner. When a copycat killer threatens to bring him down, Lester must do all he can to prevent this new killer’s sloppy work from ruining them both.
dir. Rob Schmidt
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
