I don't remember how it came up, but my mom and I were talking about something similar to the topic, when she said, "That reminds me of this movie I saw called The Fly, I'll check it out for you when we go to the library." She did just that and yesterday we finally saw it. The guy at the library said that it was about AIDS but after watching it, I can't say I can make the connection. More so, I think it was a movie that was made to teach people that science is not all that it is cracked up to be. The acting was good, the make-up was not (you'd have to watch it to know what I mean), sometimes the continuity was not all that good (i.e. there's a scene where the main character has hair on his back and in the next scene he no longer has it.).

The movie was based on a short story that was written in Playboy. It is a sci-fi horror movie, I'd say more leaning towards the sci-fi aspect (duh!). There's a second part, but my mom said it's not that great. Still, I wouldn't mind checking it out. I say watch it if you're an intellectual person, it's not a movie that people will pick apart if they're only in it for the horror aspect. You have to love a movie for all it's parts.

A bit more in detail here I should say but mostly all that I said here: http://lovelyfortune.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-fly.html

>>1 Cronenberg wanted to make a movie about mental illness, but no one would have watched it, so he made a horror movie about a fly-man. People would go out to watch that. The degradation of Goldblum's character symbolizes the depth and horror of mental illness. That is what was intended.

However, it wasn't exactly clear, so most people didn't take it as that. I certainly didn't the first time I saw it, but watching it again with that in mind, I see now and make the connection. I think I gave it a lot more credit when I watched it the second time; the first time I thought it was just a stupid horror movie.

A good film all-around.

>>2 Thank you for the information. ^_^

>>2 Yea actually now that you point that out, the movie is a lot more creepy with that mind set!

This movie is probably on of my "favorite" horror films simply because of the spine chilling creepy past level shits.
Now its even creeper. thanks Inu! xD

The sequel is still meh though...

>>4 The sequel had none of the undertones of the first, it's pretty much trashy horror. You can still try to pick out the same kind of theme, but it certainly was not intended.

I get creeped out at the end, with the shotgun. It was sad the first time, but it was much, much worse the second time watching.