A Good Remake

Rating: 10/10 (18 October 2001)

Seth Brundle(Jeff Goldblum) is on the verge of creating a teleportation device that could revolutionize the world. It can transport inorganic objects perfectly but there is one major setback: it can't transport living matter. He first tries a baboon as the first living specimen and the results are horrific. Just when Seth thinks he has all of the bugs worked out, he tries it on himself. Seth comes out of the chamber apparently unaffected by the experiment. Then Seth begins to notice a change. He first finds himself performing acrobatic stunts that he thought he could never be able to do as a normal person. Next his girlfriend Veronica(Geena Davis) begins to notice a disturbing change in his behavior. Then Veronica discovers the strange hairs growing on Seth's back. Veronica, horrified, takes the hairs to a doctor and finds that the hairs growing on Seth's back weren't human, but were in fact, insect hairs. Seth, shrugging off Veronica's pleas that he see a doctor, decides to review the process as it happened. He then makes a horrifying discovery, his genetic make up had been accidentally spliced with that of a house fly that flew into the chamber shortly before he teleported and then begins Seth's transformation.

David Cronenberg's 1986 remake of the 1958 film of the same name, is a completely different film from the original. For instance, in The Fly(1958), a man just has the head of a fly on a human body. In the remake, a man and a fly become one being and the end results are terrifying. The Fly is a total gross-out of a movie. The horrific, Oscar-winning special effects truly are what I describe them as: horrific. I won't ever forget the arm wrestling match, or the nightmare sequence, or the ending transformation scene. I'll admit that I used to be scared to watch this movie, but I'm not anymore. My mom sort of hates this movie because of the way that it shows how flies "eat" their food.
The Fly is still a great movie. The special effects, albeit they are disgusting have held up pretty well since 1986.
10/10