According to Wikipedia body horror is a subgenre “... that intentionally showcases grotesque or psychologically disturbing ...

Pregnancy and childbirth are also "their own kind of body horror", wrote Gayle Sequeira in The Guardian. And, marking a "significant trend in the wake" of the overturning of Roe v Wade ...

New female-focused "body horror" movies have tackled everything from unrealistic beauty standards to modern clampdowns on reproductive rights, but some cinemagoers are finding it way too much.