one of the only remakes that wasn't a travesty of the original

Rating: 10/10 (28 September 2005)

Whether you prefer the original version or the remake, you have to admit that David Cronenberg did a good job with "The Fly". For starters, he didn't just copy every scene; he changed the story a little bit. Obviously, the story has scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) transporting himself and accidentally mixing with a fly, thereby turning into something half-fly, half-human. Only reporter Veronica Quaife (Geena Davis) has even a remote understanding of what's happening.
The main change from the original was what happened after he transported himself; in the original, the scientist got a fly head and a fly claw, but here...well, you may have heard the term "Brundlefly". All in all, as the tagline reminds us, we should sometimes "be afraid, be very afraid," of flies.