![]() ![]() Unfortunately, Seth can only successfully teleport inanimate objects. In the film, Veronica Quaife ( Geena Davis) meets and falls in love with a brilliant if decidedly strange scientist named Seth Brundle ( Jeff Goldblum), who is on the brink of a revolutionary invention: instantaneous teleportation. And right amidst 1982’s The Thing and 1988’s The Blob, there was The Fly: the tale of an eccentric scientist, two telepods, and one tiny, buzzing mistake. There was something in the water in the 1980s that produced a smattering of stupendous body horror-filled remakes of 1950s genre fare. The man who thought to put a uterus on the outside of Samantha Eggar’s body in The Brood, who unleashed sex worms on a Montreal apartment building in Shivers, and who dared to ask whether a man could make out with a television in Videodrome: a household name. The Fly more or less made “David Cronenberg” a household name. The Fly is the only one of Cronenberg’s films to win an Oscar (an inexplicable fact, but a righteous win for Chris Walas and Stephan Dupuis’ special effects makeup). And yet, in 1986, the Baron of Blood with all his fleshy machinations and heady pseudo-science broke into the mainstream. Today, we’re recommending movies to watch if you’re a fan of David Cronenberg’s goop-sterpiece The Fly.ĭavid Cronenberg isn’t the kind of director you expect to achieve commercial success. ![]() ![]() Welcome to Beat the Algorithm - a recurring column dedicated to providing you with relevant and diverse streaming recommendations based on your favorite movies.
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