The Fly
1986 · TMDB 7.5
Directed by David Cronenberg
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.
Why it matters
Cronenberg's remake of the 1958 horror classic, in which a scientist's teleportation experiment fuses his DNA with a housefly, leading to a harrowing physical and emotional decline.
From The Body's Unmaking
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Released
- 1986-08-15
- Studio
- SLM Production Group
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 7.5
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The Body's Unmaking
Position 1 of 8
Cronenberg's remake of the 1958 horror classic, in which a scientist's teleportation experiment fuses his DNA with a housefly, leading to a harrowing physical and emotional decline.
Metamorphosis: Bodies in Flux
Position 1 of 7
Cronenberg's remake of the 1958 classic, in which a scientist's teleportation experiment fuses his DNA with a housefly, leading to a harrowing, gradual transformation.
Machines That Open the Wrong Doors
Position 5 of 8
David Cronenberg's remake, with Jeff Goldblum as a scientist whose teleportation experiment goes wrong. The gradual, agonising metamorphosis is rendered in Chris Walas's practical effects, and the film's tragedy is as potent as its gore.
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