Buzzz! Is it a fly? No, it's the great Goldblum

Rating: 8/10 (9 April 2013)

An 87 classic, I never get sick of watching. Goldblum, fantastic here, plays an out there scientist, Seth Brundle, who lives in a loft downtown, has thirty of the same set of suits that could do with a good clean, two baboons, his own real cappuccino expresso with the eagle on top, and to top that off, these two intriguing telepods, fridge like contraptions, or the new mode in tall washing dryers, that take up the centre of his dark moody pad. He runs experiments in them, transporting items, etc, from one telepod to another with not always successful results. Here to witness his experiments is a reporter, Ronnie-Geena (Ms soon to be Mrs Goldblum) Davis who becomes his love interest. One night, when Ronnie leaves Seth for a few hours, to officially end it with her ex and arrogant boss (John Getz, the character actor, again great as he's been in other films) Seth, orders home delivery Chinese, gets drunk, and makes a fatal mistake. He goes inside the telepod, only a fly gets in there with him. From here, we like Ronnie, notice changes in Seth, not just physical, as he horribly undergoes the slow and ugly disintegration of a man, as if a fly. Not only that, Ronnie has got pregnant, where Seth and her did it that night, after he made the transformation, where Ronnie now knowing the full story of Seth's fate, must decide whether to keep the newborn which leads to the culmination of our tale, amidst some nice bloody bits of violence that run at occasional tides throughout this lovable horror flick. Goldblum I must say, with his long hairdo, that's unlike Goldblum, really impresses, in still one of his best performances while he has great support. He really has his moments too. It's poster design plus title, really stands out too. Special effects are fantastic. Horror flicks like this, made the eighties what they truly were.