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Body Horror

Body horror is a subgenre of horror that intentionally showcases grotesque or psychologically disturbing violations of the human body or of another creature. While the primary focus of the subreddit will be on body horror films, other relevant body horror content such as literature or art will also be accepted.

32k subscribers263 posts / mo in Sep 2026128 authors / mosince 2015

r/bodyhorror has 32k members. It gets about 263 posts a month from 128 people. Top topics: Disturbing Horror Books, Pain and Poetry and PoetryAndMentalHealth.

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Size and growth

How r/bodyhorror has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+91%since May 2026 · +21% in 3 months · +3.9% in 1 month
Oct 202632k
Growing32k subscribers
  • no data — drawn from 0 at creation (Dec 2015)
Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+1361%vs Sep 2025 · +34% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026263
BusierPeaked at 266 in Jul 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/bodyhorror

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Disturbing Horror Books0.6%
  2. Pain and Poetry0.5%
  3. PoetryAndMentalHealth0.4%
  4. Quick Sketches0.3%
  5. Ballpoint Pen Art0.3%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Substack
  2. Vgen
  3. IMDb
  4. Miraheze
  5. TikTok

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research