When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Practical Effects
The Brundlefly suit took hours to apply daily.
Acting
Goldblum's physical descent is genuinely tragic.
Direction
Cronenberg weaponizes intimacy as horror.
Director
David Cronenberg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cronenberg kept the Brundlefly vomit-drop secret from the studio until premiere; they nearly fainted.
This remake completely eclipsed the 1958 original and invented modern body horror as we know it.
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