1986 Directed by David Cronenberg
When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
David Cronenbergs Magnum Opus converts mainstream audiences by the droves to worship at the alter of the master of body horror! Accolades from critics and audiences alike were pouring in making this the most heralded film in his gruesome repertoire not to mention a slam dunk at the box office with The Fly becoming the biggest commercial success story for the non-mainstream director!
Jeff Goldblum's powerhouse performance as the brilliant, up-and- coming scientist Seth Brundle was as terrifying as it was astonishing! The emotional range expressed by his character put us through an emotional roller coaster ride! Making it literally impossible to not feel his pain! Strangely affecting, oddly touching which made the horror that much more jarring!
The practical special effects involving costumes, puppetry and make-up were beyond brilliant and received endless praise!
Naughty Approved!
“You can’t penetrate beyond society’s sick, grey fear of the flesh!”
David Cronenberg’s most iconic body horror nightmare The Fly is a nauseously engrossing story of a man’s slow metamorphosis into a mutant insect; making exceptional use of its concept with fantastically squeamish visual effects and makeup. The gradually worsening mental state of the character is precisely coupled by the ever intensifying grisliness of the transformation; actualised in sickening detail thanks to Chris Walas’ terrific makeup and design that makes it look and feel so viscerally disgusting. The combination of Jeff Goldblum’s outstanding performance and the unbelievable effects create an especially gross, creepy creature; making for one of the finest and most memorable achievements in body horror of all time.
what's the star number for "very good" but also "despicable and wretched and ruined my night"
Spent years avoiding this because I saw part of the Fly 2 on TV as a kid and there was an image in it involving a needle that fucked me up badly. Lots of horror images you see as a kid (the woman with her eyes pecked out in The Birds, the gremlin exploding in the microwave in Gremlins, Craig T. Nelson's face in Poltergeist) are scary in a fun way -something you peek at through your fingers- but that was something that just made me feel like I'd seen a dog getting hit by a car. So I was content to skip this and settle for the Treehouse of Horror where Bart and the fly switch heads. (Which, by…
It's been a Cronenberg family kind of day, what can I say?
How can a movie simultaneously be one of the most viscerally disturbing monster movies ever AND one of the most heartbreaking, tragic love stories of the 1980s? It's a rarity to find a movie that hits so squarely on all intended marks (scares, suspense, gross-out moments, special effects, emotional intensity...), but David Cronenberg's still-stunning remake of THE FLY (oh yeah, it's also one of the greatest remakes of all time) does exactly that.
Jeff Goldblum has never been better than he is here, as a brilliant but socially awkward scientist who has invented a primitive form of teleportation, but makes a fatal misjudgment when he tries to teleport…
This movie taught me two important life lessons:
1. Buy duplicates of a single outfit so you don’t waste brainpower trying to decide what to wear.
2. Don’t drink and teleport.
if you say jeff goldblum is daddy but hesitate when someone brings up the fly you aint a real Freak™
