Eyebrow Cinema | The Fly - The First Horror Movie I Loved @EyebrowCinema | Uploaded October 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
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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: 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. 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. outtakemag.co.uk/features/2020/05/07/horror-monsters-psychoanalysis
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Get a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: mubi.com/eyebrowcinema
Support me on Patreon! Benefits include early access, exclusive vlogs, and more: 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: 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. 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. outtakemag.co.uk/features/2020/05/07/horror-monsters-psychoanalysis
More Eyebrow Cinema:
Being John Malkovich and the Office Movies of 1999 - youtu.be/sI3Obe0tiDU
The Plot Holes of Vertigo (and why they don't matter) - youtu.be/xP9EDhntal4
The Decay of Cinema - youtu.be/hjDNtwh2i5M
Chris Benoit and Separating the Art from the Artist - youtu.be/dGavvwRyomE
Sleepless in Seattle - Crying at Action Movies - youtu.be/UZLyIdVeLaM
Star Wars Can't Move On - youtu.be/ESWgz-lcUuE
Contextualizing Insomnia - Nolan's Secret Gem - youtu.be/IUef5zrtRQ4
Movie Theaters and the Value of Inconvenience - youtu.be/uZdl9D7NWBI
Action and Pacifism in Castle in the Sky - youtu.be/fuIhAH8mnSM
How Terence Young Made James Bond - youtu.be/2sTt_nkgGFE
Hierarchies of Violence in The Shining - youtu.be/tMw2YWOBeoM
The Curious Case of Forrest and Benjamin - youtu.be/gWAg1suGwnM
Never Say Never Again is a Waste - youtu.be/GsdMCujvmMA
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The End of James Bond - youtu.be/Ko492zTs9xs
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