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Movie Overview
Cast
Jeff Goldblum
Geena Davis
John Getz
Director
David Cronenberg
MPAA Rating
R
The Fly (1986)
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OFCS Rating: 92% Fresh
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"It left me itching for something less warped to identify with than a human fly."
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
4/4
"David Cronenberg's 1986 remake of the sci-fi schlockfest
The Fly
is celebrated as perhaps the most perfectly balanced of the director's pre-prestige films."
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
3.5/4
"Where other Cronenberg films have collapsed under the heavy weight of their own ideas ...
The Fly
succeeds."
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
4/4
"Finally! A horror movie for adults!"
Sci-Fi Movie Page
James O'Ehley
8/10
"Creepy, moody, and downright gory science-fiction horror flic that generates many moments of utter disgust, revulsion, pleasure and sympathy."
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
JoBlo
7/10
"Cronenberg's
The Fly
makes for a good change of pace in the world of horror flicks."
DVDTown.com
John J. Puccio
4/5
"Few films caused so much buzz in the horror world than
The Fly.
"
7M Pictures
Kevin Carr
2.5/5
"Instead of being a pretty good cautionary fable about the limits of technology, it's a show-and-tell in fifth grade biology."
Goatdog's Movies
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
10/10
"Heartbreakingly sad. Disturbingly gory. Cronenberg's finest hour."
eFilmCritic.com
Scott Weinberg
3/4
"Too much of the good stuff..."
sbs.is
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
4/4
"One of the saddest explorations of love and loss captured in one of the most underestimated films of the '80s."
Film Freak Central
Walter Chaw
3.5/4
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James Berardinelli
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