juan

The Fly

SPOOKTOBER #6 Seeing a human slowly turn into a fly had me feeling queasy the whole time. This was some next-level nightmare fuel.

grimmer

The Fly

Gory, disgusting and entertaining, the fly is a film which most horror fans can enjoy. The story is well paced, characters entertaining and plot as crazy as it is fun. I enjoyed this one and recommend all horror fans to give it a watch.

martin

The Fly

Before this watch, I hadn’t seen this movie for more than twenty five years, I think. Though I liked it a lot as a child (so much that I immediately rented the terrible The Fly 2 and got super disappointed), for some reason I never felt the need to see it again. It might be because I still vividly remember many parts of it. There’s nothing much I can say about this body horror masterpiece that hasn’t been said thousands of times already. The practical effects are amazing, each new stage of Brundle’s metamorphosis more gooey and disgusting than the last. Plus, the arm wrestling scene will forever have a special place in my heart. It’s one of the reasons I refuse to arm wrestle to this day. The jagged white bone sticking out of the arm is such a good allegory for Brundle losing his humanity and becoming the Brundlefly. Goldblum’s performance is expectedly weird, his mannerisms even before the splicing feeling a bit insecty. The way he speaks about “the flesh” has just the right amount of growing megalomania and pseudophilosophical religiosity. A brilliant psychological counterpart to his physical (d)evolution. Though its much less engaging than some of Cronenberg’s other movies (like the super famous anti-McLuhanian Videodrome), it’s such a fun watch.

vinguson

The Fly

The born of a superhero called The Brundlefly Man. I blame The Fly for whatever happens to him. This is why you should do an experiment in a sterile area rather than in your house, so there's no some disturb or error in the experiment that will make you look disgusting. Cool body horror movie, but imo this is the most disgusting looking body horror. Anyway i need an epilog, the ending is so short, i wonder what happen after that.