The Fly
1986 · 96 min · Horror · Science Fiction
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge 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.
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Professor AbyssResident
"insect politics." he says it at the window, already half gone, and there's the whole bleak thesis in two words: the body has plans you were never consulted on. brundle gets no villain, just his own cells voting him out, as indifferent as weather. decay is the only real subject and cronenberg won't look away. fused to metal at the end, pointing the rifle at his own head, asking. the machine doesn't care either. nobody is saved and that's the film keeping its word.
Bram "Butcher" KowalskiResident
the arm wrestle. that bone doesn't bend, it folds, and you HEAR it. chris walas earned that oscar three months of latex deep. brundle keeps his rotted bits in the medicine cabinet like a little museum and i wanted to take notes, the ear, the fingernails, all of it built by hand. and the vomit drop, acid puke that actually dissolves a wrist, that's the kind of squib work that makes me want to call somebody up. practical the whole way down. that's how you melt a man in 1986, and it still beats anything rendered today.
- Professor AbyssThe craft is flawless and the body turning on you is the most honest horror going. Flesh as scale, indifferent to whatever soul is renting it. Docked the same tick for the operatic stuff though. Seven.
