8 Horror Movies Like Tusk You Love to Watch
Tusk is a fascinating horror-comedy that blends weird ideas with disturbing imagery. This film is something you won’t easily forget. If you liked Tusk, then you might like the following movies that also include body horror, dark humor, and psychology.
About Tusk Horror Series:
Tusk is a 2014 horror comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith. It is based on an episode of the podcast SModcast.
Wallace Bryton is a cocky podcaster who heads to Canada after hearing about an interesting interview subject up there. When he arrives, he finds the subject has passed away. Wallace then sets out to find a new story. During his search, he meets Howard Howe, a strange, creepy guy who offers Wallace an even bigger, creepier offer when he invites him to his mansion.
Howe then tells Wallace about his past and his Walrus obsession, Mr. Tusk. Wallace then realizes Howe is going to carry out an even messier, more disturbing plan on him. The plan then turns Wallace’s body and begins his horrific transformation.
If you liked Tusk for its body horror, you might like these movies as well.
1. Antiviral:
This story is about Syd March, who works at a clinic that harvests and sells infections from celebrities to their obsessed fans. Syd discovers he is infected with a virus tied to a famous actress.
He begins to unravel the mystery of how he was infected, and in the process, gets pulled into a disturbing universe of celebrity obscurity, advanced medical technology, and lethal viruses. Like Tusk, Antiviral uses body horror to create an unsettling experience. Fans of strange medical concepts and disturbing transformations will appreciate this film.
2. Dead Snow:
Dead Snow is a 2009 Norwegian horror comedy directed by Tommy Wirkola. A group of students goes on a vacation to a remote cabin in Norway, where they run into a violent group of undead Nazi soldiers.
There is a lot of gore and a good amount of dark humor as the students fight to survive. If you like the combination of horror and comedy in Tusk, Dead Snow is a great option. Both movies have plenty of dark comedy, but they take their horror concepts in very different directions.
3. Possessor:
Possessor is a 2020 science-fiction horror film written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg. The film follows Tasya Vos, an assassin who uses technology that allows her to inhabit other people’s bodies to control them and commit murders. One of her tasks becomes extremely problematic when she loses control over her identity while being inhabited by the host.
Like Tusk, Possessor confronts uneasy truths about the human body and the mind’s flexibility and malleability. It is darker and more serious than Tusk, and contains more or less continuous disturbing imagery.
4. Swiss Army Man:
A lonely man stranded on a deserted island, Hank (Paul Dano), discovers the body of Manny (Daniel Radcliffe). In Swiss Army Man (2016), a comedy-drama written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Hank refuses to be alone and instead develops an atypical friendship with Manny. With his newfound friend’s help, Hank sets off on an unusual journey.
Tusk is more disturbing than Swiss Army Man, but both films explore bizarre situations and body humor. Fantasy and comedy blend with the absurd to create an unconventional film that is highly enjoyable for audiences who appreciate the bizarre.
5. Excision:
Richard Bates Jr.’s 2012 psychological horror film Excision follows Pauline, a teen who is socially unwelcome and unfulfilled, and fantasizes about being a successful surgeon. Through Pauline’s growing obsession with the gory arts, Bates Jr. takes viewers on a disturbing journey into the darker side of Pauline’s fantasies.
Body horror in Excision makes viewers just as uneasy as Tusk. Still, the focus of Excision is more on Pauline’s psychological state and her fascination with surgery rather than the body horror itself.
6. The Greasy Strangler:
This is a 2016 horror comedy written and directed by Jim Hosking and Toby Harvard. This film follows Big Ronnie and his son Brayden, who run a peculiar tour business where they take customers on bizarre tours of their city. Everything in Ronnie’s life becomes even more chaotic when the Greasy Strangler starts attacking people around them.
This movie uses uncomfortable, bizarre, and dark comedy to portray horror. Fans of Tusk will enjoy The Greasy Strangler as it is another uncensored, strangely hilarious, and bizarre movie.
7. Rubber:
This 2010 absurdist horror comedy was written and directed by Quentin Dupieux. A previously used, abandoned tire mysteriously comes to life in this movie, and it’s named Robert. Robert discovers he can destroy things with his mind and decides to use his power to kill both animals and people.
The idea of a horror comedy centered around a tire may seem strange, but that is what makes the movie unique. Like Tusk, Rubber has an extremely strange idea and uses it as the basis for an entire movie. If you like dark comedy and horror, you should watch this movie.
8. The Human Centipede:
This 2009 body-horror film written and directed by Tom Six focuses on a twisted surgeon who creates a human centipede by joining three people together, ass to mouth. This story is about two American vacationers who end up stranded and meet Dr. Josef Heiter, a psychotic surgeon who abducts them and another victim.
Heiter performs an unthinkable experiment on the three victims by fusing them with surgical skills he learned during his training as a doctor. The movie gained popularity for its bold approach to the body-horror genre. Like Tusk, it builds its horror upon the extreme bodily transformation of its victims.
Final Words:
Tusk is a body-horror-dark-comedy hybrid, a rare genre fusion, as is its subject matter. If you appreciated that style of filmmaking, I suggest you check out Antiviral, Dead Snow, Possessor, Swiss Army Man, Excision, The Greasy Strangler, Rubber, and The Human Centipede. Each offers something psychologically unsettling, comically unsettling, and/or bodily unsettling for viewers who have outgrown traditional horror.
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