Intelligent and captivating. THE best horror movie of the 80's

Rating: 10/10 (14 February 2005)

How rare it is when a remake outshine the original. Not that in this case the original was any good though. This one is a classic. I'm sorry to see the other comments about this movie as just being 'a OK horror flick'. How little do they understand. This is the modern version of Quasimodo or beauty and the beast. The main difference with the other horror movies is this: In most horror movies, the main requirements of the characters is that they must be able to bleed gallons of blood, and they have to scream when touched... or cut. In The Fly the character are filled with human emotions and the deficiencies that makes us humans: ambition, doubt, love, despair, hope and anger. The fear factor here is not the loss of life and limb, but the mechanics of those human frailties that tend to lead us to our doom. The Fly is an intelligent and mature horror movie of the same caliber as Alien. As I flock my memory, I can't remember any other good horror movie after the fly (maybe people under the stair come close). Hollywood is back to courting the popcorn gubling audience watching teenager X being slashed and mangled to dead by creep Y in the dark corner of the silver screen.
TIP: avoid at ANY cost The Fly 2.