Considered fairly gruesome in its day, the original 1958 The Fly looks like Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood compared to this chilling 1986 remake by auteur David Cronenberg which many viewers consider his best!

Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis star as Seth Brundle, a self-involved research scientist, and Veronica Quaife, a science-magazine reporter.  Inviting Veronica to his lab, Seth prepares to demonstrate his “telepod,” which can theoretically transfer matter through space.  As they grow closer over the next few weeks, she inadvertently goads Seth into experimenting with human beings rather than inanimate objects.  Seth himself enters the telepod, preparing to transmit himself through the ether — but he doesn’t know that he is sharing the telepod with a tiny housefly.

” (A) mass-market, horror film masterpiece that is also a work of art.” – Jay Scott, Globe and Mail

“Wildly imaginative, gut-wrenchingly scarifying and profoundly primal (not to mention funny), David Cronenberg’s The Fly is a movie that whacks you in the solar plexus and leaves you gasping.” – Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer