Every body horror movie streaming on MGM+ in the US right now — 15 films ranked by rating, checked against MGM+’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from MGM+ US
Directed by Dan O'Bannon
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFlesh-eating zombies' insatiable hunger visualizes death as endless consumption—the genre's most primal body betrayal.
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.
Directed by John S. Robertson
✦ MovieMuse AI takeJekyll's transformation sequence pioneered the idea that evil physically deforms the body from within.
A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
Directed by Darren Aronofsky
✦ MovieMuse AI takePregnant body as cosmic horror vessel; Aronofsky turns childbirth into intimate, nightmarish violation.
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
Directed by Robert Fuest
✦ MovieMuse AI takePhibes' art-deco corpse manipulation treats death as sculptural material—the ultimate body control fantasy.
The eminent Dr. Phibes awakens from a decade of suspended animation and heads to Egypt with the corpse of his dead wife, which he intends to resurrect by murdering people in strange and heinous ways.
Directed by George A. Romero
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNeural link between man and beast erases bodily boundaries; rage becomes biological contamination.
A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.
Directed by Philippe Mora
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTeenage mutation as unstoppable genetic destiny—puberty weaponized into cannibalistic transformation.
A horrified teen mutates into a crazed cannibalistic swamp creature, and must uncover the terrifying secret identity of his father before his nasty natural tendencies force him to make jambalaya out of the locals.
Directed by Gérard Kikoïne
✦ MovieMuse AI takeJekyll's Jekyll-to-Hyde split visualizes personality as competing physical forms inhabiting one corpus.
When his experiments into a powerful new anesthetic go hideously awry, respected physician Dr. Jekyll transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. As his wife Elisabeth passes her time in charitable work, rehabilitating the district's fallen women, Hyde is drawn into an escalating cycle of lust and murder that seems to know no bounds.
Directed by John Carl Buechler
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDrawing a demon makes it real; art literally manifests as grotesque embodied consequence.
A comic book artist Whitney Taylor is doomed to repeat history in a most grotesque way when she unleashes a demon after drawing it.
Directed by David Keith
✦ MovieMuse AI takeContamination spreads bodily corruption through family bloodline like inherited disease.
Nathan Hayes is a religious man trying to hold onto his farm and keep his family in line. A real estate developer is trying to buy most of the farm property in the area, including Mr. Hayes family farm, in the hope that the Tennesse Valley Authority will choose the town for the site of a new dam and recreational area. The night of a terrible storm, an unidentified, glowing object crashes on the Hayes farm and with it comes a horrible curse for the Hayes family and the members of the community.
Directed by Joseph Green
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDecapitated head kept alive; the brain as disembodied consciousness exploring bodily dissection.
Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Keeping Compton's head alive in his lab, Cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. First, however, he needs a body.
Directed by Wallace Fox
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGland extraction as literal youth-stealing—parasitic corporeal harvesting for immortality.
A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid from virgin brides.
Directed by Jack Pollexfen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeElectricity animates corpse into unkillable flesh—electricity as horrific life-giving force.
A scientific experiment involving subjecting a corpse to an extreme charge of electricity accidentally revives an executed criminal and makes him impervious to harm, allowing him to seek revenge on his former partners, and deal similarly with anyone else who gets in his way.
Directed by William Sachs
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCosmic radiation dissolves flesh into perpetual oozing; the body as unstable matter.
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.
Directed by George P. Breakston
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSecond head erupts from torso; multiplication literalizes internal conflict as extra anatomy.
An American journalist stationed in Japan is given a mysterious injection by a mad scientist, turning him into a murderous, two-headed monster.
Directed by Dwain Esper
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMad science transplants personality into new body; identity as surgical commodity.
An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.
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