Fresh
What makes The Fly such a stunning piece of obsessive film making is the way Cronenberg deftly allows us to identify with his monstrous creation.
Patrick Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
The Fly
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
1986 · 1h 36m · R
Horror, Science Fiction
Directed by
David Cronenberg
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The Fly
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- David Cronenberg Director
- Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle
- Geena Davis as Veronica Quaife
- John Getz as Stathis Borans
- Joy Boushel as Tawny
- Leslie Carlson as Dr. Cheevers
- George Chuvalo as Marky
- Michael Copeman as 2nd Man in Bar
- David Cronenberg as Gynecologist
- Carol Lazare as Nurse
- Shawn Hewitt as Clerk
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
82%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Wildly imaginative, gut-wrenchingly scarifying and profoundly primal (not to mention funny), David Cronenberg's The Fly is a movie that whacks you in the solar plexus and leaves you gasping.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
What's good about the film are the strong performances and the ingenious, mostly amusing script. What's ugly, of course, is the grossness. And what's bad is the movie's inability to reconcile its good and ugly aspects.
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh
As slimy and as grotesque as some of its special effects become, The Fly is a far superior horror film to the top-grossing film in America of late, Aliens.
Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
The Fly seizes on our ingrained, instinctive horror of sexuality, the sense of shame that our fundamentally puritanical society can't help but teach us, and by confirming our worst fears, helps us, for a moment, to move beyond them.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune
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