THE FLY

Scientist Brundle, an expert in genetics, manages to create two teleportation capsules. After testing them with some objects and animals, he decides to try them himself. The teleportation works perfectly, but shortly afterward, the researcher begins to undergo strange genetic mutations of which he will soon discover the cause: a fly had entered the first capsule with him and, when the cells recomposed in the second cabin, the computer mixed the two DNAs. The doctor is now becoming a fly-man… Although it is a remake of the famous 1950s sci-fi horror film "The Experiment of Dr. K," the film is absolutely "by Cronenberg." The subject allows the director to reinterpret the Kafkaesque nightmare of metamorphosis in a completely personal way, and as always happens in the films of the Canadian filmmaker, nothing is left to the imagination: mutations, fusions, bodies dissolving… The film, thanks mainly to the new possibilities offered by more modern special effects, manages to be even better than the already excellent 1950s film. Two exceptional protagonists like Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis and a great director like Cronenberg could not help but give life to an excellent film, and that's what happened. Must-see and rewatch. Trivia: the film's producer is comedian Mel Brooks, in his second foray into horror, always as a "financier," after Lynch's "Elephant Man." Cronenberg carves out a brief cameo playing the role of the gynecologist who operates on Geena Davis in the dream-nightmare pre-abortion sequence.