One of Cronenberg’s very best films, this is a peak culmination of his body horror exploits with a rare emotional and human core to its storytelling.

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David Cronenberg has been around since the late ’70s, making independent films that only a few die-hards would want to pay dollars to see.  

He’s a cult filmmaker with a fetish for things strange yet grotesque, often mixing science-fiction with horror, and establishing himself as one of the most creative oddballs in world cinema.

While his two latest works, A History of Violence (2005) and Eastern Promises (2007), marked a career shift to making more accessible films with Oscar pedigree, most fans would agree that the 1980s was when Cronenberg was at his prime, directing films like Scanners, The Dead Zone, and Videodrome.  

The Fly is as Cronenbergian as they come, with insane amounts of gore, gruesome violence, and some of the most disturbing images to come out of ’80s Hollywood cinema.

“Be afraid, be very afraid.”

It focuses on the blossoming romance between the two main characters played convincingly and with great chemistry by Jeff Goldblum (Brundle) and Geena Davis.  

When the unaware Mr. Brundle teleports himself together with a fly in a bid to become the first scientist to successfully conquer teleportation, the consequence becomes disastrous, both physically, mentally, and most pitiful of all, romantically. 

Winning a solitary Oscar for Best Makeup, The Fly is an exhibition of how far makeup artists can excel in the field of cinema.  

Brundlefly, the tragic result of an experiment gone wrong, is a character that viewers will be keen to sympathize with, despite its capability to maim victims in the most horrible fashion imaginable.  This is precisely the reason The Fly works so excellently. 

Grade: A

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