The Fly
When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and 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.
Why it matters
A tragic fusion of sci-fi and body horror that transforms a mad scientist’s ambition into a nightmarish physical and emotional unraveling.
- Jeff Goldblum delivers a career-defining performance, balancing charisma and grotesque transformation with unsettling humanity.
- David Cronenberg’s masterful direction turns teleportation tech into a vessel for exploring decay, identity, and loss—making flesh itself the battleground.
- Practical effects by Chris Walas remain some of the most disturbing and inventive in horror history, with a gradual mutation that feels viscerally real.
- For fans of body horror and tragic monsters, this is a seminal work that blends scientific hubris with intimate horror, not just shock for shock’s sake.
Director
15 horror films in catalog
From the Drain 1967
Crimes of the Future 1970
Shivers 1975
Rabid 1977
The Brood 1979
Scanners 1981
Videodrome 1983
The Dead Zone 1983
The Fly 1986
Dead Ringers 1988
The Nest 2013
The Death of David Cronenberg 2021
Crimes of the Future 2022
Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection 2023
The Shrouds 2025
Cast
Horror DNA
Gore
71
Slow Burn
66
Psychological
43
Supernatural
0
Creature
91
Disturbing
83
Fun Factor
33
Cerebral
71
Survival
17
Body HorrorCreatureMonsterMutationTransformation
