The best "female" horror movie

Rating: 10/10 (6 October 2005)

I was re-watching one of my favorite movies the other day and realized that I couldn't think of another movie that comes close to portraying fear and horror from a woman's perspective.
I'm not just talking about the fear of the creepy-crawlies or having a birth scene in which the female lead gives birth to some kind of monster, that has been overdone in so many movies. It's almost a cop-out nowadays to show that; a way of covering all the bases. Albeit it does play a part in this story. But it's just to easy to throw that into a movie for shock value, you know?
With David Cronenberg's The Fly, he has elevated the level by binding macabre horror with a psychological love story. Even though our protagonist is male, and his decent into becoming a "185-pound fly" is a gruesome one, what impressed me the most is how the writers and director were able to incorporate other facets like abandonment, fear of losing control, fear of the unknown, fear of the loss of a loved one, etc. into the story. Many of the deepest and darkest horrors that would affect the female psyche. Then, at the end, when *she* was the one who had to kill the person she had fallen in love with? Whoa, talk about really giving the screw an extra turn...
That, folks, is why Cronenberg's version of The Fly is in my top 3 horror movies of all time. I still can't think of another movie that comes close to hitting so many different fears told from the female perspective.