This film is a buzzzzzzz

Rating: 8/10 (16 November 2006)

A frightening romantic horror movie. It is very strange since Cronenberg is the master of this kind of stuff that he never made his version of Kafka's Metamorphosis. The fly is so raw that I wondered as I was watching it if I would have appreciated it as much if I was just flicking through some channels and came across it or if its simply my trust in Cronenberg which once I followed it through, I realized how truly amazing this film is. Goldblum is perfect for the part of the nutty scientist with a David Copperfield aura round him Dr Seth Brundle and he does have the characteristics of a fly. he plays the part convincingly, except for the fact that we never see him feast on a big piece of dung or manure. I love Cronenberg's obsession with toying around with the flesh to replace it with something new that always turns out to be most terrifying. This film sums up with lots of the similarities in his previous works at the time, but still today you know what makes a Cronenberg film.