Corruption: The Fly (1986) Well, there's the obvious aspect of a man turning into a mutated fly-thing with insectile behaviors and thought processes (vomiting digestive enzymes onto food, climbing walls and ceilings, feral behaviors), but there's a lot of unhealthy love in here as well; the mutant fly wants a mate, and that means putting a woman through the same horrific transformation he's undergone. In the process, he exhibits terrible jealousy, possessiveness, lust, violence, and eventually attempting to fuse himself, his love interest, and their unborn child into a singular entity so they can be together forever.
Oh, and the body horror. Can't forget the ooey, gooey body horror.
Buried: Iron Lung (2026) The movie takes place entirely within a small, crude submarine at the bottom of an ocean of blood. The sub is emphasized throughout to be a creaking, hot, suffocating space that constantly leaking blood and always under threat of breaking under the pressure of the ocean. There are multiple scenes of the main character Simon crawling in the crawl space under the floor (one of which has the small duct rapidly filling with blood). It acts as both the Simon r's lifeline as well as his coffin - the only thing keeping him from being crushed under the weight of a sea of blood and the thing that will ultimately kill him, whether from the radiation poisoning from the camera, or the eventual depletion of his oxygen, or when it lets in too much blood and he drowns. He is literally welded inside a metal box with no way out, desperately scrambling for survival while under the weight of an ocean of blood. Neither Simon nor the audience are ever allowed to leave it.
There is also the metaphorical side of the Buried present here. Simon lacks any true freedom over his life, both as a prisoner of the COI (who gave him the option of life imprisonment or a risky operation with the promise of freedom they might deliver on), as a member of Eden (a death cult he was either born into or left in the care of at a young age) and narratively speaking (again, he was doomed from the moment he stepped inside the sub), he is always pushed into what's happening in his life and must bear the consequences of it regardless. There's the guilt of the hand he played in the station's destruction and the loss of hundreds of lives that weighs on him constantly. There's the weight of humanity's possible future weighing on his shoulders, with the data the black box carries potentially being a chance at saving what little remains of them. The movie bleeds (pardon the pun) the Buried in nearly ever aspect of both it's narrative and it's film making.
Film Tournament Winners Semifinals Bout 2
Corruption: The Fly (1986)
Buried: Iron Lung (2026)
