Cronenberg doesn't shy away from any "taboo" themes and he never puts out gratuitous violence just for the sake of shock value. His movies usually contain themes on how we perceive our human anatomy and our reactions to deformities and physical aberrations. The cycle of birth, life, and death is all symbolically interpreted in the Fly through how technology corrupts and replaces some of who we are.

The science is soft, but my goodness was I hard.

Another great film by David Cronenberg. Not to mention Jeff Goldblum playing the role he seems to have built his entire carer off of, excentric and slightly nerdy scientist. This really is a great job by Goldblum though. You can't help but feel sorry for him as his humanity slips away. Cronenberg is so good at directing science fiction. His directing style compliments the story perfectly, and the effect look great for 1986! Definitely a sci-fi classic.

Cronenberg's trademark body horror as an absolutely heartbreaking, horrifying metaphor for drug addiction and other matters of alienation, deformity, pregnancy, anatomical perception, etc.

About a guy who gets into a cool ass machine teleporter thingy, but a stupid ass fly gets in there with him and fucks him over badly. Turns the guy into a big giant fly man thing. In the end we learn it's not cool to be a mutant fly man, and you will die if you are. I always thought if I was eating a biscuit and a fly landed on it and I ate it by accident I too could be a mutant fly guy. Just never got around to it though

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Goldblum is at his most Goldblumiest in this movie, even when he's barely recognizable and melting peoples' hands off with his spit.

Nobody does mutation better than Cronenburg.

Disgusting. Utterly brilliant however.

Esse me causava dor no estomago na minha infancia

A rare case of great original, great remake. Whilst completely recapturing the essence of it's main character's slide into desperate madness, Cronenberg opts for body-horror, and manages to conceptualise the most unsettling monster, I've ever seen on film. A side character is poorly written, but where the original Fly seems slightly dated, this one has lost non of it's potency. And you know it's a bad day, when your penis has fallen off, and you have put it in a jar for future studies.

A really charming atmosphere initially; a geek fantasy - mad scientist with cool warehouse pad gets the hot journalist chick.. but the end is more silly than scary. I just like to think of the film as a caricature for Jeff Goldblum.

5/5