For this year’s 31 Nights of Horror Challenge, the Night 5 prompt is Jordan Peele. We watched the movie The Fly on Amazon Prime.
Storyline
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
Our Thoughts on The Fly (1986)
Tonights prompt is Masters of Horror and for this reason we chose this movie. This is David Cronenberg’s most iconic film!
Cronenberg manages to implement all his strengths into this one film. He uses sci-fi in a way where it feels real. He uses body horror to scare the audience and also probably to make have them disgusted at the same time.
As with all David Cronenberg films, ‘The Fly‘ has a really fascinating concept. This film is about teleportation. As you can probably imagine, something goes horribly wrong which is when body horror kicks in.
The makeup in this film is phenomenal, it still holds up to this day and looks quite disturbing even! The soundtrack is really good as well and adds to the film’s atmosphere!
Jeff Goldblum is perfectly cast, he delivers a very believable performance that is serious but also funny at times. Geena Davis as the journalist was also wonderfully chosen and she manages to deliver a grounded performance!
David Cronenberg did an exquisite job with easily one of the best films of his entire career! He once again proved how talented he is and how good of a storyteller he is! ‘The Fly‘ asks ethical and moral questions with a philosophical backdrop!
7 out of 10 stars
Trivia
David Cronenberg was surprised when the film was seen by some critics as a cultural metaphor for AIDS, since he originally intended the film to be a more general analogy for disease itself, terminal conditions like cancer and, more specifically, the aging process.
The Fly‘s vomit was made from honey, eggs, and milk.
In a 1987 interview on Sinister Image (1987) Vincent Price revealed that when this remake was released, star Jeff Goldblum wrote him a letter saying, “I hope you like it as much as I liked yours.” Price was touched by the letter, he composed a reply and went to see the film, which he described as “wonderful right up to a certain point… it went a little too far.”
It took nearly five hours to apply the most extensive makeup stages to actor Jeff Goldblum.
So what do you think? How many of these Dracula movies have you seen? Do you have any others to add to the list? Let us know in the comments section and please consider joining our Facebook page, Scary Movies at the Fort. Each October we host the 31 Nights of Horror. Check us out.
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