Perhaps the best paced horror movie of all time. (spoilers)

Rating: 10/10 (10 December 2001)

'The Fly' represents a masterpiece of writing/directing by David Cronenberg. This film has a spectacularly balanced mixture of suspense, thrills and just plain "holy crap he just melted that guy's foot with vomit, that's DISGUSTING" which will satisfy any horror/SCI-FI movie fan. The plot, pacing, camera angles, and music enhance the acting of a wonderfully cast Jeff Goldblum (in a brilliant if stereotypical performance consisting of nerdly bravado and odd hand gestures to which even Saturday Night Live can do no justice). The late 80's-early 90's trend towards movies with cancer metaphors (see also: 'ALIENS') is represented proudly herein as Seth Brundle slowly metamorphoses into 'Brundle Fly'. For my money, one of the scariest movie monologues is Jeff Goldblum's 'Insect Politicians' culminating in the chilling line: "I'm saying...(head twitches insectily, looks longingly towards skylight) I'll hurt you if you stay". I can go on analyzing this film for hours and hours, but I'll just say that this is certainly MY favorite horror movie of all time, and it keeps getting better every time I watch it.