The Fly details
Overall Rating
Total Ratings: 2
Movie Details:
- Director: David Cronenberg
- Produced By: 20th Century Fox, Brooks Films
- Year: 1986
- Run Time: 96 minutes
- Country: Canada, USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: R
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Science Fiction, Horror
- Filmed In: Color
- Release: 1986 08 15 (USA)
- Key Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel, Les Carlson, David Cronenberg, Carol Lazare, Shawn Hewitt, Full Credits
- Awards: Best Makeup (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 1986), Best Picture (National Board of Review 1986), Full Awards
Considered fairly gruesome in its day, the original 1958 The Fly looks like Mister Rogers' Neighborhood compared to this 1986 remake. Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis star as Seth Brundle, a self-involved research scientist, and Veronica Quaife, a science-magazine reporter. Inviting Veronica to his lab, Seth prepares to demonstrate his "telepod," which can theoretically transfer matter through space. As they grow closer over the next few weeks, she inadvertently goads Seth into experimenting with human beings rather than inanimate objects. Seth himself enters the telepod, preparing to transmit himself through the ether -- but he doesn't know that he is sharing the telepod with a tiny housefly. by Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Keywords:
- experiment
- metamorphosis
- mutant
- scientist
- teleportation
- science-runs-amok
- fly [insect]
Themes:
- Mad Scientists
- Inventors
- Mutants
- Experiments Gone Awry
