Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
- monster
- experiment
- mutation
- toronto
- canada
- mutant
- transformation
- halloween
- remake
- tragedy
- creature
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Leslie Carlson — Dr. Cheevers
- George Chuvalo — Marky
- Michael Copeman — 2nd Man in Bar
- David Cronenberg — Gynecologist
- Carol Lazare — Nurse
- Shawn Hewitt — Clerk
- Typhoon — Baboon (uncredited)
- Ann Green — Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
- Directed
- David Cronenberg
- Written
- David Cronenberg, Charles Edward Pogue
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 5,076 ratings
- Studio
- SLM Production Group, Brooksfilms
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1986 · You’re hereThe Fly
Where it starts.
The Fly II
1989
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
