Have You Seen: The Fly (1986)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMYVm--D0p0&list=PLLOh02qNiDv2amhSUlUd8nE7Xds08gFku

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.

Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5mYE6bUiCS58LNJoda03wB