Kafka meets Lovecraft -- one of the best!

Rating: 8/10 (28 May 2006)

If you want to see only one David Cronenberg film, this may be the one. It is simply the most accessible and entertaining of his movies, while adding that little extra to the standard horror flick, making it a deeply disturbing treat. It has good acting, outstanding special effects and score, and that hallmark David Cronenberg fear-your-own-body theme.
The theme can be summarized as a tale of bodily mutations, as a scientists gets fly DNA mixed into his own. It's like Kafka had met Lovecraft for a beer.
But one watch out for the severely cut version: Stay away if it's 91 minutes long! The gruesome ending is cut into dadaism in this version, which sadly is the most common on DVD.