Superior remake of a true sci-fi classic

Rating: Null/10 (13 March 2003)

THE FLY (1986) ***1/2 Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz. Superior remake of the fifties camp sci-fi classic in which a crazed genius using a teleportation creation is accidentally mutated with a common housefly. Here Goldblum (in one of his best performances) is the doomed scientist whose horrific miscalculation becomes a parable in the AIDS era of disease taking total control of oneself for better or worse. Graphic and stomach-churning Oscar-winning make-up effects thanks to Chris Walas and Stephen Dupuis and a surprisingly effective love story underscoring its unsettling theme. Directed by David Cronenberg. "Be afraid...be very afraid!"