Eyebrow Cinema's video: The Fly - The First Horror Movie I Loved

Get a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: https://mubi.com/eyebrowcinema Support me on Patreon! Benefits include early access, exclusive vlogs, and more: https://www.patreon.com/eyebrowcinema What was the first horror movie you ever lived? I spent a lot of time thinking about that question, and the answer I come to was David Cronenberg's The Fly. A grotesque, upsetting, stomach-turningly resulting piece of terror I've never been able to shake. And here's why. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/danpgsimpson Filmography: https://boxd.it/dJkss Music Featured: A Ghost Waltz by Loyalty Freak Music Love Him by Loyalty Freak Music Hello Regan! by Loyalty Freak Music Geister by Semper Eadem Both Flanks by Small Colin Works Cited: "AIDS References in the Critical Reception of David Cronenberg: 'It May Not Be Such a Bad Disease after All'". Ernest Mathijs. Cinema Journal Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 29-45. 2003. The Uncanny. Sigmund Freud. Penguin Classics, 2003. Originally published in 1919. "Your Guide to Rewatching Millennium-Era Horror Movies." Jordan Crucchiola. 2020. https://www.vulture.com/article/your-guide-to-rewatching-millenium-era-horror-movies.html "The Other, the Uncanny, the Anomaly: How do we understand monsters on-screen?" James Hanton. 2020. http://outtakemag.co.uk/features/2020/05/07/horror-monsters-psychoanalysis/ More Eyebrow Cinema: Being John Malkovich and the Office Movies of 1999 - https://youtu.be/sI3Obe0tiDU The Plot Holes of Vertigo (and why they don't matter) - https://youtu.be/xP9EDhntal4 The Decay of Cinema - https://youtu.be/hjDNtwh2i5M Chris Benoit and Separating the Art from the Artist - https://youtu.be/dGavvwRyomE Sleepless in Seattle - Crying at Action Movies - https://youtu.be/UZLyIdVeLaM Star Wars Can't Move On - https://youtu.be/ESWgz-lcUuE Contextualizing Insomnia - Nolan's Secret Gem - https://youtu.be/IUef5zrtRQ4 Movie Theaters and the Value of Inconvenience - https://youtu.be/uZdl9D7NWBI Action and Pacifism in Castle in the Sky - https://youtu.be/fuIhAH8mnSM How Terence Young Made James Bond - https://youtu.be/2sTt_nkgGFE Hierarchies of Violence in The Shining - https://youtu.be/tMw2YWOBeoM The Curious Case of Forrest and Benjamin - https://youtu.be/gWAg1suGwnM Never Say Never Again is a Waste - https://youtu.be/GsdMCujvmMA Harry Potter - 10 Years Later - https://youtu.be/H0VjWs6aivw Stanley Kubrick's Favourite Actors - https://youtu.be/Uon8unTCEX4 Long Movies are Good, Actually - https://youtu.be/YGhsxpsXgF0 On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The End of James Bond - https://youtu.be/Ko492zTs9xs Dune, Star Wars and Building Sci-Fi Worlds - https://youtu.be/d_W823JT5Bs