Rent The Fly (1986)
4.0 of 5 from 233 ratings
1h 31min
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- Synopsis:
- This frightening, but extremely moving and romantic horror film stars Jeff Goldblum as an over-ambitious scientist who accidentally merges with a housefly while conducting a bizarre teleporting experiment. A journalist (Geena Davis) who has fallen in love with him while covering his scientific endeavours suddenly finds herself caring for a horrifying creature whose insect half gradually begins to take over.
- Actors:
- Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel, Leslie Carlson, George Chuvalo, Michael Copeman, David Cronenberg, Carol Lazare, Shawn Hewitt
- Directors:
- David Cronenberg
- Writers:
- George Langelaan, Charles Edward Pogue
- Others:
- Chris Walas, Hoyt Yeatman, Jon Berg, Louis Craig, Stephan Dupuis
- Aka:
- La mosca
- Studio:
- 20th Century Fox
- Genres:
- Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Collections:
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- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 19/05/2008
- Run Time:
- 91 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French DTS 5.1, German DTS 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Danish, Dutch, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Swedish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- Bonus:
- Commentary by David Cronenberg
- Trivia Track
- Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly
- The Brundle Museum of Natural History
- Deleted Scenes
- Extended Scenes
- Film Tests
- Written Works
- Promotional Materials
- Still Galleries
- High Definition Trailers
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Reviews (3) of The Fly
The Fly - The Fly review by VG
An equal parts shocking, grotesque, touching and tragic love story of ambition, passion, hubris and horrific bodily betrayal.
2 out of 2 members found this review helpful.
Still potent after all these years - The Fly review by AER
I haven't seen The Fly since 1989 on video and I was so grossed out I never went back until now. Nowadays, I have a stronger stomach and I have seen quite a few David Cronenberg films to be drawn back in.... After all these years, it's still astonishing from a creature FX POV. Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis are both excellent, even though the script is whiffy - the plot is also overly simplistic and it could have done with a longer running time because Seth Brundle's (Goldblum) decline is too rapid to drum up real sympathy or horror.
Unlike so many other big 80s films, The Fly still works its magic where it counts.
6 out of 10
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Be Afraid. - The Fly review by Steve
Loose remake of the 1956 classic sci-fi/horror with Vincent Price. It's a standard mad scientist picture with its theme of the folly of human overreach, so really there are few surprises. What made this different is mostly the grotesquery of the visual effects which won an Oscar and a prominent credit for Chris Wallas' monster makeup.
Now this registers for David Cronenberg's auteur-ish body horror, and Jeff Goldblum's reinvention of the crazy inventor as a younger, sexier nerd. This impact meant he never quite escaped the role. In support, Geena Davis is upgraded from the traditional scream-queen into a science journalist with reckless ambitions of her own.
While the quirky boffin is on a downer he takes the risk of dispatching himself through his poorly tested teleporter and his human DNA gets spliced into the fly that got in the pod with him.... so not only does the oddball genius experience a worrying and very gooey transformation into an insect but the go-getting reporter is pregnant...
These themes will be very familiar to horror aficionados and while the SFX set it apart in '86, it's these which most date it now. Still, it's the best horror of the decade, even if Threads (1984) is scarier! Many claim the metamorphosis represents AIDS, though Cronenberg says it's more about ageing. And borrows from Franz Kafka!
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