This article studies the film genre of body horror from the categories of the abject and sinister in relation to the image and technical elements of cinema. David Lynch's The Elephant Man (1980) and David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986) are used as a source of analysis. The categories of the abject and the sinister will trace the intimate relationship that exists between the spectator and the film genre, giving the opportunity for an analysis that revolves around psychoanalytical and affective perspectives. The physical resignation of the abject will reveals qualities that the human desires to forget, while the sinister will emerge from the ignorance of the body itself.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.47725/RAV.030.09