The Fly (1986)
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
21 January 1956, Wareham, Massachusetts, USA
12 September 1937, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
22 October 1952, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
15 October 1946, Davenport, Iowa, USA
15 March 1943, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
24 February 1933, Mitchell, South Dakota, USA
1959
August 04, 2013
Any dolt could fill a movie with sickening stuff, and there's nothing scary, funny or interesting about what Cronenberg has done. It is just tedious and insulting. Get the swatter.
August 04, 2013
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.
October 18, 2011
A gross-your-eyes-out horror movie that is also the year's most poignant romance.
August 04, 2013
A classic combination of the romantic and the macabre is about to set moviegoers abuzz the rest of the summer. It`s The Fly, a remake; but it`s accomplished with a brisk and chilling new inspiration.
May 02, 2016
At its best, the movie comes close to the power of classic tragedy.
August 04, 2013
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.
August 04, 2013
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.
October 28, 2013
A masterpiece of tragic science fiction and Gothic horror...
August 04, 2013
Only Cronenberg can get away with working out his raw phobias on screen while being poignantly witty and repulsively entertaining at the same time.
August 04, 2013
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.
August 04, 2013
It is a fright film, a morality play about being devoured by one's work and, most powerfully, a sad, sad love story of doomed partners.
August 04, 2013
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.
