David Cronenberg's The Fly is a classic movie that is hunting to the very last scene. It's a modern Frankenstein, where the mad scientist himself becomes an even madder experimental monster.
Though it's one of the most powerful movies ever made about the beast inside man, The Fly is not for the weak of stomach or faint of heart. The creative and original mind of David Cronenberg, makes us watch human organs become expendable as spare parts. Seth's hair falls out in tufts, his fingernails drop off, exposing the pupal- stage insect beneath, then his ears, nose... Jeff Goldblum embraces the insect nature of the fly side of his mind; his acting only heightening the amazing visual transformation.
"Be afraid, be very afraid," The Fly is very underrated for such an amazing achievement. Anyone who's witnessed a beloved die of cancer or other soul-destroying disease will recognize the horror of The Fly: the decomposition of a living human. Death redefines life. The transformation of the tender scientist into brutal fly is a specter that penetratingly redefines humanism.
In The Fly, Cronenberg literally shows us what distinguishes man from beast. Some call it conscience. The Fly is a humanist plea in horror-movie clothing. Parts of it are unwatchable. But it's unforgettable.
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