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A gross-your-eyes-out horror movie that is also the year's most poignant romance.
David Cronenberg's remake of the 1958 horror classic The Fly is not for the squeamish. Casting Jeff Goldblum was a good choice as he brings a quirky, common touch to the spacey scientist role.
The Fly is almost unique for a horror movie in that it compels us sympathize with and root for the characters.
Image so much subverts intention that Jeff Goldblum's tragic flyperson finally seems more ludicrous than affecting, voyeuristically bizarre.
...a film that tries to be too many things at once -- funny but not campy, sad and scary, a horror story and a human tragedy...
One of the greatest, horror or otherwise.
I'm happy to report that the sci-fi tome still holds as much power and resonance (to me as much as general audiences) as it did 20 years ago when first released.
Purists may still prefer the original for the sheer strength of its monumental build-up, but I think there's a lot to be said for this version and its conflation of romantic comedy and horror conventions.
Cronenberg's most conventional film prior to A History Of Violence, The Fly is also among the finest of his American movies.
Cronenberg's most triumphant and accessible film to date.
It left me itching for something less warped to identify with than a human fly.
The playful, quirky chemistry between Goldblum and Davis in the first half of the movie ensures that this gothic horror is heartbreaking as well as stomach-churning.
Acting, psychological perspicacity and general creepiness all merge to wonderful effect in this deftly 'hijacked' studio movie.
Kafka would have loved it.
I say The Fly is maybe Cronenberg's most accomplished straight horror film, but, then again, a dentist just knocked out three of my teeth.
David Cronenberg's 1986 remake of the sci-fi schlockfest The Fly is celebrated as perhaps the most perfectly balanced of the director's pre-prestige films.
Cronenberg's masterful remake of The Fly ranks among the most disgusting films ever made by a major studio.
Charles Edward Pogue and Cronenberg's intelligent script and Goldblum's heartfelt performance make this outlandish story perfectly feasible.
excels at telling a seemingly simple story with great intensity and human dimensions masked in genre elements
Cronenberg's first masterpiece transcends the original 58 film as a horror gore-fest, achieving poignancy as a metaphor for any modern disease, from cancer to AIDS to old age.
David Cronenberg, that most iconoclastic of directors, achieved one of his greatest successes with The Fly.
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