The Fly
1986, Horror/Sci fi, 1h 35m
65 Reviews 50,000+ RatingsWhat to know
David Cronenberg combines his trademark affinity for gore and horror with strongly developed characters, making The Fly a surprisingly affecting tragedy. Read critic reviews
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Seth Brundle
Veronica Quaife
Stathis Borans
Tawny
Dr. Brent Cheevers
Marky
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Critic Reviews for The Fly
All Critics (65) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (60) | Rotten (5)
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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.
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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.
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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.
August 4, 2013 | Full Review… -
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.
August 4, 2013 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review… -
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.
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A gross-your-eyes-out horror movie that is also the year's most poignant romance.
October 18, 2011 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for The Fly
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Oct 08, 2015The Fly may be horror but it is of the Evil Dead / Nightmare On Elm Street variety where the jokes / silliness lighten things up. This was a movie I had heard about but had never seen until just recently. The Fly is not a bad film but more a product of its time rather than a timeless classic. Recommended for fans of 80s grotesque / animatronic horror and, of course, Cronenberg fans.Robert B Super Reviewer
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Dec 04, 2013Goldblum and the over-the-top special effects really craft this movie into the classic that it is today, but Cronenberg's ability to find pathos in the most unlikely of places is among the film's more compelling aspects.Kase V Super Reviewer
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Oct 31, 2013[img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img]Directors C Super Reviewer
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Jul 05, 2013A mainstream horror movie blended with a heavy dose of science fiction B-movie and melodrama, The Fly is not only wildly fun and entertaining but also very well-made. It begins by diving straight into the story by introducing us to Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum), a scientist with an invention that he claims will change the world. He invites journalist Veronica Quaife (Geena Davis) to his lab to show her the invention, which is a pair of pods that can teleport matter between them. Veronica plans to write a book documenting Seth's progress in perfecting the pods, and they get romantically involved (of course). However, all that goes awry when Seth decides to teleport himself from one pod to another whilst home alone, and a fly joins Seth in the telepod without his knowledge. Seth's invention successfulyl teleports him, but it also merges Seth's DNA with the fly's, causing him to gradually transform into an insect-like abomination. From that point on things begin to get gross, but Jeff Goldblum naturally brings a very human quality to his character and grounds the schlocky plot with a surprising amount of emotion. Despite the gorey moments, it's hard not to be rooting for the characters because the actors and script make them very believable and sympathetic. Even the seemingly two-dimensional character of Veronica's obsessive boss ends up redeeming himself to a certain degree, so the movie is almost like a low-budget sci-fi tragedy. Of course there's also a fair amount of low-budget horror special effects and gore, including Seth Brundle's unique way of eating food as he transforms into the fly-human hybrid (which the movie refers to as Brundlefly). All in all The Fly is a very enjoyable science fiction movie that has a welcome low-budget feel to it yet still has a great script and more than sufficient character development. The gross special-effects might be a turn-off for some people, but The Fly really has a lot going for it that makes it very fun and absolutely worth seeing.Joey S Super Reviewer
The Fly Quotes
| Seth Brundle: | I want to be the first insect politician. |
| Seth Brundle: | You're a fucking drag, y'know that? |
| Veronica Quaife: | Be afraid. Be very afraid. |
| Veronica Quaife: | What does the disease want? |
| Seth Brundle: | It wants to turn me into something else. I think I'm becoming...Brundlefly. Don't you think that's worth a Nobel Prize or two? |
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