Have You Seen: The Fly (1986)

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.This week we revisit The Fly, a 1986 body horror movie created by David Cronenberg and starring Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum, about a scientist who has a disturbing accident while testing a prototype teleporter.We talk about the movie's body horror and the special effects used in Brundle's transformation, why focusing on it in such detail is what makes the movie work and how Brundle's journey through it holds the movie together and why its ending holds up so well, why the story is improved by the lack of a villain, the movie's restraint in blaming science and focusing on Brundle's personal flaws instead, and much more.Related playlists:Horror movie reviews: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5nEzAuLhmPeQVt6eJGStPn80's movie reviews: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0CS9ed77Yswo40gLvmU5qbHalloween season reviews: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/58HVIHc2oHh93OrGsDRuuY