As of today, a staggering 611 films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. That's a lot of movies. And after nearly one whole century of Oscar ceremonies, only 1.3% of those Best Picture nominees were in the horror genre -- including this year's "The Substance.

Edward Berger's thriller about papal selection earned a DGA nomination and a SAG nod for Ralph Fiennes. The film won the Golden Globe for best screenplay, and while Berger missed out on a directing Oscar, Isabella Rossellini secured a supporting actress nomination.

But thanks to Bill Skarsgard’s terrifying turn as the bloodsucker Count Orlok, Eggers’s drama (nominated for four Oscars) more than justifies its existence in horror cinema’s vampire-saturated landscape.

Horror movies and literature reflect people's anxieties by taking them to gory extremes. Body horror taps into the very human fear of how unpredictable, and even uncontrollable, our bodies can be. While this theme has its roots in gothic literature,