euh... WTF is Body Horror?

I myself was first intruduced to the term by a description that my brother gave one of my earlier paintings. From then on, I discovered it was a modern term birthed in the Y2K internet age to describe a horror genre. I find it kind of funny that people will actually set ouot to create material Under this horror genre specifically for the labelling of it. People have mentionned than Canadian film-maker David Cronenberg pretty much invented the genre in the movies, Something he himself finds quite funny to contemplate as he only did what he wanted to do reguardless of what terminology would be associated with it later on. It's like saying my first solo album from 30 years ago was "Electro-Clash" ;  the term did not exist 30 years ago and thus it would be kind of weid and unrelated to label it in such a way (which it isn't by the way, but I needed an example just for sheer example's sake).

But seriously, what is body horror except for horror which seems to be centered / focused on horror involving the human body? Wikipédia says this:

Body horror or biological horror is a subgenre of horror which intentionally showcases graphic or psychologically disturbing violations of the human body. These violations may manifest through aberrant sex, mutations, mutilation, zombification, gratuitous violence, disease, or unnatural movements of the body. Body horror was a description originally applied to an emerging subgenre of American horror films, but has roots in early Gothic literature and has expanded to include other media.

But is this enough to describe what some people believe is the ultimate in horror?

I myself sort of enjoyed another way wikipedia described it:

Body horror falls into one of three "gross" genres or "genres of excess" which also includes pornography and melodrama. According to film scholar Linda Williams, the success of these body genres "is often measured by the degree to which the audience sensation mimics what is seen on the screen". For example, an audience may experience feelings of terror through horror, sympathy through melodrama, or sexual arousal through pornography. Body horror specifically focuses on the limits and transformative capabilities of the human body.

Body horror often overlaps with, but is distinct from, other horror subgenres. For example, while elements of mutilation may be present in body horror, other similar subgenres such as slasher, splatter, or monster horror may also share this trope, but differ in message and intent. A common difference in the body horror genre is that violations or distortions of the body are rarely the result of immediate or initial violence. Instead, they are generally marked by a loss of conscious control over the body through mutation, disease, or other tropes involving uncontrolled transformation. The genre can invoke intense feelings of physical and psychological disgust, or squick, and play upon anxieties of physical vulnerability. In addition to common tropes used within the broader horror genre, some tropes specific to the body horror subgenre may include invasion, contagion, mutation, transformation, disease, mutilation, or other unnatural or violent distortions of the human body.

In any case, it is most definatelly not for the squeemish nor for everyone as it seems to be quite intense in it's Delivery, especially in movies with substantial budget, and not limited by CGI. I do believe this genre works best when effects are more mechanical than computer-rendered, but then again, I am old school like that!