Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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.
- Body horror
- Graphic violence
- Bleak ending
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Character
Classical in form, intimate, earnest and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- rawmeticulous
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Cast
- Jeff GoldblumSeth Brundle
- Geena DavisVeronica Quaife
- John GetzStathis Borans
- Joy BoushelTawny
- Leslie CarlsonDr. Cheevers
- George ChuvaloMarky
- Michael Copeman2nd Man in Bar
- David CronenbergGynecologist
- Carol LazareNurse
- Shawn HewittClerk
Crew
- David CronenbergDirector
- David CronenbergScreenplay
- Charles Edward PogueScreenplay
- Mark IrwinDirector of Photography
- Howard ShoreOriginal Music Composer
- Ronald SandersEditor
- Stuart CornfeldProducer
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