Seth Brundle is a research scientist, employed by Bartok Sciences, who has invented “Telepods” two matter transmission pods that teleports any object through space from one “Telepod” to the other “Telepod”. But, it is until Seth meets journalist Veronica Quaife who inspires Seth to correct the system, that Seth achieves successful teleportation. But something goes horribly wrong, when Seth uses himself as a guinea-pig in a matter transmission experiment, as he teleports himself, unaware his genes have been fused with a house fly that was trapped in the telepod with him. Seth, now finds himself slowly transforming into a terrifying mutant creature known as “Brundlefly” as he finds himself in a fierce battle as his mutated genes begins to take over.

The Fly (1986)
  • Rating: (54,848 votes)
  • Taglines:Something went wrong in the lab today. Very wrong. » There is a limit, even to the imagination, where our greatest creations meet our deepest fears. Doctor Seth Brundle is about to go beyond that limit...and he's bringing you for the ride. »
  • Runtime:96 minutes
  • Director: David Cronenberg
  • Country:USA
  • Actors:
    Seth Brundle
    Jeff Goldblum
    Veronica Quaife
    Geena Davis
    Stathis Borans
    John Getz
    Tawny
    Joy Boushel
    Dr. Brent Cheevers (as Les Carlson)
    Leslie Carlson
    Marky
    George Chuvalo
    2nd Man in Bar
    Michael Copeman
    Gynecologist
    David Cronenberg
    Nurse
    Carol Lazare
    Clerk
    Shawn Hewitt
  • Genres:Horror, Sci-Fi
  • Producers:
    Marc Boyman
    co-producer  
    Stuart Cornfeld
    producer  
    Kip Ohman
    co-producer  
  • Plots: Seth Brundle, a brilliant but eccentric scientist attempts to woo investigative journalist Veronica Quaife by offering her a scoop on his latest research in the field of matter transportation, which against all the expectations of the scientific establishment have proved successful. Up to a point. Brundle thinks he has ironed out the last problem when he successfully transports a living creature, but when he attempts to teleport himself a fly enters one of the transmission booths, and Brundle finds he is a changed man. This Science-Gone-Mad film is the source of the quotable quote "Be afraid. Be very afraid." Written by Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk>
The Fly
  • User's comment:A very terrible film to see… by ironside (robertfrangie@hotmail.com)

    David Cronenberg's version of "The Fly" has little in common with Kurt Neumann's 1958 film of the same title, one of the cheaply made 'creature-features' of the 1950s… Instead, it reveals many of the director's obsessions…

    Jeff Goldblum is Seth Brundle, a Mad Scientist who is working on 'teleporting', a means of transporting objects through space… Geena Davis is Veronica Quaife, a magazine writer who becomes interested in his work, and in him… They start an affair, but Seth believes Veronica is still seeing her former lover… In a rage he tries to transport himself, and his genes become caught up with a fly that gets into the machine… Slowly Seth takes on the features of an insect…

    As in other Cronenberg's films, sexuality is seen as a dangerous force that leads to disaster… Seth cannot get his amazing machine to transport living creatures until he has experienced the delights of sex with Veronica, but then almost immediately his jealousy leads more like a fly he develops a raging libido; the more physically repulsive he is, the more he wants sex…

    Like many successful films of the 1980s, "The Fly" is a hybrid, fusing elements of both horror and science fiction… Considering that the plot is from the latter genre, the elements of fear and disgust with the human body are traditional to horror… Both genres, as this film will illustrate, benefited greatly from the increasing sophistication of contemporary special effects technique, and the make-up abilities… The success of the film led to sequel in 1989, in which the son of Seth and Veronica begins to display familiar symptoms…


  • Quotes: Seth Brundle: My teeth have begun to fall out. The medicine cabinet is now the Brundle Museum of Natural History. You wanna see what else is in it? Seth Brundle: What's there to take? The disease has just revealed its purpose. We don't have to worry about contagion anymore... I know what the disease wants. Ronnie: What does the disease want?
  • Also known as: La mosca (Argentina), La mosca (Italy), La mosca (Mexico - imdb display title), La mosca (Peru), La mosca (Spain), A Mosca (Brazil), A Mosca (Portugal), Die Fliege (Austria), Die Fliege (West Germany), Fluen (Denmark), Fluen (Norway), Flugan (Finland - Swedish title), Flugan (Sweden), La mouche (Canada - French title), La mouche (France), Muha (Croatia), Muha (Slovenia - imdb display title), A légy (Hungary), Ha-Zvuv (Israel - Hebrew title), I myga (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Kärpänen (Finland), Moucha (Czechoslovakia), Mucha (Poland), Musca (Romania), Muva (Serbia), Sinek (Turkey - Turkish title),

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