The Fly
Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene, who tells him that she has just killed her husband. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that he invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber. From TMDB
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60 of 190 · most liked firstThe actor who plays the monster in The Fly is the same guy who plays the scientist at the beginning of the movie. Makes me wish i paid more attention lol. Time for a rewatch
unlabelledView post →I know we all know this absolute toad of a man is scum but it truly cannot be overstated just how much he sucks and looks like you threw a Bond villain and the rich property developer who wants to close the Community Center in an 80s kid movie in the Fly machine This is Dem leadership
unlabelledView post →The Fly, as in, the human-bodied, lab-coat-wearing, flyhead-and-claw-having mutation from the original film, should be recognized as a "monster type", just like a wolfman, a dracula, a gillman, etc, etc
unlabelledView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 The Fly (1986) By John Cordero
unlabelledView post →My favorite Robert Eggers film, and one of my favorite films of 2024. Reminded me of seeing the original Alien or Cronenberg’s The Fly for the first time. Beautiful and horrifying. I know a lot of folks on here dislike or hate it. But I adore it. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/nosf...
unlabelledView post →We discovered that Bethany has never seen a David Cronenberg movie and are remedying this. As of now her ranking has been (in descending order): The Fly Eastern Promises A History Of Violence what will we watch next who can say
unlabelledView post →THE FLY was released 40 years ago today. A classic David Cronenberg body horror film, and the movie that launched the career of Jeff Goldblum, the story behind the scenes will make you afraid, very afraid… 1/54
unlabelledView post →The Fly is on AMC. Gremlins just went off. What a magical period of movie-making. Practical effects grossness is the supreme grossness
unlabelledView post →Dave Franco and Alison Brie tell us how ‘TOGETHER’ stands out from other body horror films “There have been other body horrors that focus on romance, like The Fly... but we wanted the romantic element, this codependent relationship to be the cornerstone of this film.”
unlabelledView post →horror film pitch for dogs: The Fly. not about a device that turns you into one, it's literally just that there's a fly in the room and the dog is fucking terrified.
unlabelledView post →In 1996, Nic Cage invited John Madden over to his place to check out the Telepods he bought from the movie The Fly and Madden turned it on and
unlabelledView post →I’ve seen so many B sci fi movies and tv I think I could direct an Ant-Man movie in my sleep. It’s just the original The Fly but the guy learns to love it and turns his much younger wife into the fly at some point.
unlabelledView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 The Fly (1986) By Tom Ralston
unlabelledView post →Mel Brooks produced THE ELEPHANT MAN, THE FLY, and 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD for god’s sake. Do you know how hard it is to turn 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD into a movie, let alone a good one?
unlabelledView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky #MovieSky Buddy (2026) Akria (1988) The Fly (1986) The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019)
unlabelledView post →When I was a teenager my favorite Cronenberg movie was THE FLY, in my 20s it was VIDEODROME and now it's definitely CRASH. I wonder if it will keep changing for me. That's a sign of a great filmmaker.
unlabelledView post →Happy 40th to THE FLY, a curiously seminal film for many a Film Freak Central contributor. I believe it was in his MIRACLE MILE book that @mangiotto.bsky.social talked about having the film recorded on audio cassette and ritually listening to it, which flummoxed Cronenberg when he told him.
unlabelledView post →The monologue in the trailer given by Terry Alexander, and how it works with John Harrison's score, gives me goosebumps every time. Second favourite horror movie monologue after the "insect politician" speech in Cronenberg's The Fly
unlabelledView post →Without saying The Fly, fav Jeff Goldblum film?
unlabelledView post →SHE HAD TO KILL THE THING HER HUSBAND HAD BECOME - BUT COULD SHE? Just got a belated Father’s Day gift from my kitties: as I mentioned earlier they like to chase flies so the got me THE FLY original 1958 half sheet movie poster 😁😍🐈⬛🖤🪰
unlabelledView post →I've *really* been slacking on film watches lately, but a couple new ones since my last #letterboxdfriday. Been so long since I watched The Fly that it barely felt like a rewatch. Still so good. Bring Her Back was an unsettling but great surprise. #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
unlabelledView post →My wife came to bed and immediately started talking about what if the eighties The Fly movie but with Rouge the Bat
unlabelledView post →Hey everyone - for my latest Summer of (Movie) Love series, I’m celebrating Cronenberg’s THE FLY. This is the film I’ve probably covered the most in my career but I really wanted to dive into it again. from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/summer-of-mo... Open to free/paid subscribers! 🪰💚
unlabelledView post →TALES FROM THE DARK SCREEN DAY 14: THE FLY (1986) #TalesFromTheDarkScreen day 14 brings you one of the best remakes of all times: David Cronenberg’s THE FLY! A very few can do body horror like Cronenberg- Jeff Goldblum’s metamorphosis into Brundlefly is hard to watch still to this day… brrr
unlabelledView post →Happy 40th anniversary to THE FLY - my favorite Cronenberg film & one of my all-time favorite movies ever. from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/summer-of-mo... This is open to both free & paid subscribers - cheers!
unlabelledView post →Earlier this week, I released my article on one of my favorite films of all-time, THE FLY, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this month. I tried to put a lot of love into this, so I thought I'd share it again: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/summer-of-mo... Open to free & paid subs.
unlabelledView post →The Fly (1958) 🎬🖤 Directed by Kurt Neumann
unlabelledView post →OTD: 8/15/1986: David Cronenberg's body horror classic THE FLY opens in U.S. theaters. I will never NOT love this movie, which I genuinely consider one of the 80's strongest romance flicks. Really! #filmsky 📽 #horrorsky
unlabelledView post →The Fly II (1989) Dir. Chris Walas – Often maligned when compared to 86 film, this sequel deserves a second look. Stoltz brings heart to the tragic son of Brundle’s legacy as science once again runs amok. Wet and gruesome with a surprisingly emotional core. The ending is better than you remember.🎞️📽️
unlabelledView post →Now rewatching THE FLY. There's so much good about this movie, but this time around I'm struck by the nice subtle makeup effects in the first and second acts. Brundle starts to look a little sickly and gross even before the horror really kicks in.
unlabelledView post →All rewatches for the first week of November Return Of The Fly (1959) The Haunting (1963) Batman (1966) Gun Crazy (1950) #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #lastfourwatched #filmsky 🎬🍿📽️
unlabelledView post →Does anybody else remember Moviedrome? Sunday evenings on BBC2, Alex Cox would introduce the audience to the weird and wonderful cult classics, such as The Fly, Brazil, and Q - The Winged Serpent. It certainly helped shape my taste in film and I'm certain many others of my particular vintage!
unlabelledView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 The Fly (1986) By John Cordero
unlabelledView post →The Fly is one of my favorite creature features and Cronenberg films. Wrote about how this tragic monster movie confronts death and disease
unlabelledView post →Currently watching The Fly!!
unlabelledView post →MUHA/THE FLY (1967): Aleksandar Marks' terrifying animation for Zagreb Film was aired by Channel 4 in the late 80s/early 90s. Revolving around the relationship between a man and a fly (which grows to enormous size), it's one of those 'once seen, never forgotten' gems.
unlabelledView post →I watched The Fly and was cute to find comments from guys who framed the fly guy™ as a victim when to me the movie was specifically about the woman and it can be read as a film about how nerdy dorky men who are perceived as inoffensive end up replicating patriarchy, like in gaming communities.
unlabelledView post →happy Friday film lovers 🫶🏻 here’s my #LastFourWatched & it was a great week, The Fly was insane lol
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching #filmsky The Fly |1986 David Cronenberg |chronological |10.23 www.imdb.com/title/tt0091064 ·a botched experiment transmutes a man into a monstrous insect·
unlabelledView post →Today's horror rec is the 1988 remake of the Blob. Everyone talks about the remake of the Thing and the Fly, but this easily deserves to stand up there as well. Great small town horror film with a threat so much larger, and not afraid to go in directions you wouldn't expect. #HalloweenRecs
unlabelledView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Day #309 "The Fly" (David Cronenberg/1986) Cronenberg's masterclass in body horror, fucking brilliant! Jeff Goldblum is on fire in this one, so damn good. Remember though, be afraid, be very afraid. Check it out!
unlabelledView post →Books to Films 📚=🎞️ The Fly (1957) by George Langelaan was adapted in 1958 & by David Cronenberg in 1986. The short story published in Playboy is fleshed out in both films. A body horror motif emerges from the more cerebral scientific original particularly with the 86 film. 👤⌯⌲🪰 #booksky #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Post-nerdfest movie: THE FLY (1986)
unlabelledView post →The other thing about Mel Brooks? HE'S A GREAT PRODUCER. He hired David Lynch to direct The Elephant Man based on Eraserhead, he made 84 Charing Cross Rd film-able for Anne Bancroft as an anniversary gift, & hired Cronenberg for The Fly..
unlabelledView post →I was wondering whether, like in the film The Fly, Trump and Johnson had got into a matter transporter together
unlabelledView post →"Be Afraid" is the chilling old tagline to the 1986 movie The Fly, and probably the tamest thing someone could invent to make trans people sound scary
unlabelledView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #244 "The Fly" (Kurt Neumann/1958) An absolute classic of sci-fi/horror! You definitely want to check this one out.
unlabelledView post →I realized I've never seen The Fly (1986), so tonight's movie features young hot Jeff Goldblum (as opposed to silver fox Jeff Goldblum).
unlabelledView post →Deep down I have hopes the werewolf in the upcoming Wolfman movie it's like The Fly of 1986 and the character slowly mutates through the film... I really hope cause this can't be their final look.
unlabelledView post →David Cronenberg at the Chatelet Theater for the production of the opera "The Fly", adapted from his film of the same name (with musical director Plácido Domingo and composer Howard Shore) - BOTD
unlabelledView post →THE FLY is 40 years old today. David Cronenberg’s finest film, and it hit when my father learned he was dying of cancer. I watched him transform over the months into an alien being who was still my father. THE FLY is the greatest film ever made about watching your loved ones grow sick. A masterpiece
unlabelledView post →🪰Now Watching: The Fly (1986)
unlabelledView post →Just watched The Fly II (1989). I’ve heard a lot of (reservedly) positive things about this film lately. And I can see why it gets only tepid praise — it completely abandons the tone and gravitas of the first film, and becomes a cheesy B-monster movie. But it’s a REALLY GOOD cheesy B-monster movie!
unlabelledView post →#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky Scary Movie 6 The Slumber Party Massacre I Am Mother The Fly
unlabelledView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 The Fly (1986) By John Dunn
unlabelledView post →On this night (11th May) in 1991, the Scala Cinema was showing Nightbreed (1990), Hellraiser (1987), From Beyond (1986), Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) and The Fly II (1989) as a ‘Beyond’ all-nighter.
unlabelledView post →Cronenberg's THE FLY is great, but Kurt Neumann's 1958 film is much better than you might expect. Different, but in its own way just as horrific. Also, a sad fate for Dandelo the white cat - though not nearly as ghastly as in George Langelaan's original story. See my book CATS ON FILM for details!
unlabelledView post →The Fly II is far from perfect, but when this goopy and gross film works, it's disgusting and pretty damn good. 🎥 boxd.it/6KOP3x 🎥 #Filmsky
unlabelledView post →"The Fly" has been made into two classic films--Cronenberg's 1986 remake of the 1958 original offers a gorier, more emotional take on this tragic tale of reckless experimentation--and the Sci Fi Film Club explores the history behind both films!
unlabelledView post →WAITER WAITER I want an order of The Fly, 1986 vintage, minus the insect plot point I warn you, waiter If I find a fly in my film I will scream
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