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The Fly (1986) Reaction & Review! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!
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- čas přidán 15. 08. 2024
- The Fly was an instant classic. I absolutely loved it and I cannot wait to show it to people who haven't experienced it yet. Jeff Goldblum knocked it out of the park with his excellent performance. David Cronenberg’s writing and direction were also on point. The film had a little humor, a lot of tension and holy crap, the Brundlefly itself was nothing short of shockingly scary. Everything from the character development to the score to the insanely good makeup and prosthetics were of the highest caliber. I feel like The Fly has aged remarkable well and I would highly, highly recommend this film for lovers of thrillers, horrors, sci-fi but most importantly, Jeff Goldblum.
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0:00 Intro
2:11 The Film
20:46 The Review
29:40 Outro
Hey guys, I'm Shaneel (Shan). Welcome to the channel!
My reaction and review to The Fly (1986) for the first time. Hope you enjoy the video!
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Shan: "I don't mind you know, like, scary movies and ghosts and stuff, but human disfigurement.. Ugh I don't like that"
*Cronenberg's grin widens*
lol. Yeah, Shan clearly needs some more Cronenberg in his life.
@@cinemarchaeologist All hail the new flesh!
@@Kurahaara86 Death to Videodrome!
He should watch Tusk
"Be afraid. Be very afraid."
Fun Fact: Geena Davis claims that the only time she felt "grossed out" by the amount of gore was in the scene where Seth's ear falls off and she holds him. She states that her reaction to holding her face up to Goldblum's was not acting and that she was indeed really grossed out.
Bonus Fun Fact: Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum were dating at the time, this is why their chemistry was very noticeable.
Geena didn't know the ear was going to come off her reaction was genuine
@Big Gator5• Here's another fun fact about them. They both have incredibly high IQs. They actually are both members of Mensa. YUP they got some big brains!!! 🧠
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck were dating at the time of Gigli and their chemistry is not only inexistent but cringe (turkey time?)
Davis and Goldblum had good chemistry off screen that translated well on-screen.
that was fun
The 1950s original of "The Fly" and the "The Thing" are both worth checking out.
Absolutely, the only thing the lets down the 1950s version is the almost laughable creature effects, but otherwise a great film.
"Help me. Heeeeelp me!" If you know the reference you've seen the original.
You should always check if there's a previous version of a movie -- the same goes for music.
I agree that the fly is worth checking out,but the old thing was ordinary... the old fly with vincent price is a great look into the human condition, great ending
@@mrtonysantos James Arness as a 6-3 thing was scary as crap when I was a kid. Yah effects don't hold up in these old movies but the premise is great. It Terror from Beyond Space is the precursor to the movie Alien, and again has a great premise, and was taken as far as a low budget 50's film could produce.
Jeff Goldblum deserved a Oscar nomination for this role in my opinion. This is his best performance, it’s perfect. Cronenberg is a master.👍
The film was on many critics top ten list that year including ebert’s. It’s still one of my top 3 films
@@Dmarcoot The Fly is in my top 5 films and Goldblum did a great job getting us emotionally invested in his character's journey. He makes Seth so likeable at the beginning that we root for his romance with Veronica to succeed and we want him to succeed as a brilliant scientist and then to see that all fall apart for Seth was truly heartbreaking!
Great remake of the 1958 Vincent Price movie. I highly recommend the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers with a young Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright (Alien), Donald Sutherland (Hunger Games) and Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek). One of the BEST remakes ever.
.....and I highly agree with James Harper's recommendation of the 1978 remake of "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers". It's outstanding, and Jeff Goldblum is great, it's still the movie I think of first when I think of Jeff Goldblum, and he's not even the lead. Very well done.
I don't know if this will convince Shan, but you had me at Nimoy
@@notmee2388 😆😆😂😂
@@notmee2388 Watch it at once, Not Mee, make it your Halloween movie, it's a great one! If you like Nimoy and you like Goldblum, then you'll be VERY happy, because they definitely have scenes together!
this wasn't really a monster movie, it was a tragedy, Cronenberg was obsessed by body horror like Lynch or the surreallist horror artist H.R. Giger. and part of the fly's transformation looked like the diseased humans in Gigers pictures. you see Cronenberg use Giger almost directly in Videodrome of which Deborah Harry stars. she was a big fan of Giger (the artist that designed the biomechanical ship and creature of Alien) and Giger used Debby Harry as a model for his horror paintings and a few of her album covers. check out the tongue in cheek but unsettling gigerish 'Videodrome' by Cronenberg. slightly dated but still a favourite of mine
Giger also designed and directed some strange music videos for Debbie's solo songs from the album "Koo Koo."
Thank you! I always say that is a tragedy as well.
Videodrome gave me nightmares for years... lol. I rewatched it recently, and it still holds up so well. My buddy felt almost physically ill watching it. Haha
No fantasy movie, this one is sciFi.
I've always found the end when he raises the barrel of the gun to his head to be incredibly poignant, that's Seth in there, his humanity is still there. All of his plans to combine them into one body was abandoned and he was pleading with Ronnie to end his suffering, you can almost hear him say "Please." at one point. 😢
Epic ending.
One thing you didn't mention was Geena Davis's performance, especially at the end. Can't tell you how many times I've watched an actress try to pull off crying, but I started sobbing when I watched Davis at the end. Didn't look forced or overdone. I was rapt in her horror and disappointment.
The music playing when Brundle-Fly raises the gun to his head gets me every time. It's heart breaking.
The music playing when the computer tells Brundle he's gonna fuse with the damn fly and Brundle finally realizes what's happening will always be my favorite track. The sheer terror.
Well, technically it was 'Telepod-Brundle-Fly' at that moment ...
@@UberWraith hahaha...yes it was!
This is why practical effects almost always beat CGI when it comes to monsters. Movies like this and the Thing terrify me. But modern CGI horror movies don't.
The Thing is way better than this movie. Can't even put in the same sentence.
This is just much closer to a gross B movie.
Yes, this movie is a classic. You HAVE TO see more Cronenberg! He basically created the whole subgenre of "Body Horror". You definitely need to see "Dead Ringers" and "Videodrome". So many other great horror flicks, but those two are must sees. Dead Ringers is his best film imo.
Scanners!
The Fly, Videodrome and Dead Ringers are the obvious apex of Croenbergs work. All disturbing but thought proving too. I wouldn't disagree with Dead Ringers as the best, but The Fly is the most solid and consistent. Also Shan, in your own time watch the original 50's version of the Fly. As good in its way, of its time, and with an absolutely chilling ending
I still love SCANNERS the best. I never liked DEAD RINGERS. A lesser-known Cronenberg film, eXistenZ, has one of the most twisted twist endings I ever saw.
Yes!!!! Dude, its my birthday!!! I'm 31 today! This is my favorite Body Horror Thriller film! This film won the Oscar for Best Makeup! It made $60 million dollars against a $13 million dollar budget. The movie is supposed to be an allegory for AIDS, as Cronenberg stated, "If you or your lover have AIDS, then you should watch this movie, as is shows you how deadly and incurable this disease can affect your friends, family, and loved ones."
Another terrific reaction and review. Personally, I would be fascinated to see Shan react to some of the best classic movies, especially more sci fi and horror type movies. Have you seen Them! from 1954? How about The Day the Earth Stood Still from 1951? For other genres, have you ever seen The African Queen with Bogart and Hepburn?
all great suggestions!👍👍👍
@Maya Nightwolf He needs to take more suggestions from the CZcams people because not everybody here can be Patreons. It's not fair that they get to do the surveys and get their opinions heard MORE than we do in the comments.
The War of the Worlds (1953)
The Blob (1958).
The Fly II is one of the most underrated horror movies ever. It has some of the greatest death scenes ever, with one death that can make grown adult cry.
It's not the best film ever. It's like Aliens compared to Alien, but much more mediocre.
I think one of the best things about this movie that's different to the 50's version is Brundle's transformation is a gradual process, it made his mutation more tragic and scary and the idea of him looking worse and worse every time Veronica goes round is genius in my opinion!
When Goldblum says to Davis "Help me!", it's a nod to a famous scene in the 1958 version of the story.
David Cronenberg, the film's director, has a small cameo in this film: He plays the head surgeon during Ronnie's dream, during the abortion nightmare sequence. // I had the chance recently to listen to his commentary on The Fly DVD. You probably would really enjoy that. ...One special moment in that commentary, is when he reveals his thinking during the sequence where Brundlefly's fingernails come off in the bathroom. Cronenberg wanted us to relate to an 'everyday horror' - a person, alone in their bedroom or a bathroom, suddenly notices something on their body: a very small thing, but "it's a very very WRONG thing." (a cancer lump, for example.) A person's journey with a fatal disease often begins with such a wildly disturbing discovery, as it did for Brundle, in the film. // Jeff Goldblum did the _beginnings_ of the gymnast exercises, but the film did in fact need a professional gymnast double in order to complete them.
next, Geena Davis - Thelma and Louise, and The Accidental Tourist. also, A League of Their Own.
Groundhog Day
"Earth girls are easy" Goldblum and Davis again and a bit of Jim Carrey as well.
The first DNA sequencing was done in the early 70s, but it was extremely slow, expensive and could only do short stretches of DNA code. By the mid 80s we could do full genome decoding of simple bacteria and viruses
Glad you finally watched it.
I've seen most of Cronenberg's films and in retrospective I think this is his best one.
It has the body horror element that has been his trademark, but none of the questionable acting by some in his early movies.
The cast is not big but everyone gives their A game here. Jeff Goldblum, Geena davis and John getz.
Critics at the time thought it was a metaphore for Aids as the disease got into the mainstream counsciousness after the death of actor Rock Hudson several months earlier from AIDS.
But Cronenberg went to say that it was a metaphore for old age and how our body changes and decay and how it affects our relationship with others.
Btw, Cronenberg has a cameo as the gynycologist who pulls out the larva in the dream sequence.
Big part of the success of the film is that it's not as much horror as it is horrifying and Seth's transformation and how it affects Veronica is horrifying thanks to the superb performances of the leads and their chemistry together. That's what makes the movie so heartbreaking.
Of course, you cannot touch the film without talking about the out of this world make up achievement by Chris Walas and Stephan Dupuis who got a well deserved Oscar for best make up.
It would have been a crime not to give them as the prosthetics and the fly animatronics at the end look so realistic and horrifying that 35 years later they still are grossly impressive.
Other Cronenberg films worth watching here on your channel are:
Videodrome
Dead Ringers
Crash
History of Violence
Eastern Promises
What, no Scanners? Lol
@@mikewoodrow5878
Sure, scanners too and the brood while we're at it
I'd add "eXistenZ".
"Eastern Promises" is really haunting! You shouldn't miss it!
You have to see it twice to really get it.
The Fly - 1958 i watched several times during the 1970's growing up. When The Fly {1986} came out i was more impressed. Great reaction & your summary post reaction i find well thought out. Suggest adding John Carpenter's 'Starman' - 1984 to your future watch list; hopefully you have not yet seen this.
'Starman' was a great movie.
Wow. Forgot all about Starman. Jeff Bridges, if I recall correctly. Similar to K-Pax in concept? Haven't even heard that film mentioned in decades, but I recall enjoying it.
@@notmee2388 CORRECT, Jeff Bridges is the key actor, Karen Allen did a superb performance as well.
The "help me, help me" before the swat left a lasting impression on me as a kid. I watched the 1958 version when this adaptation came out.
@@thejesus95 AGREE, as a child watching this movie it was indeed troubling.
The Brundle Fly is the result of extremely creative and artistic Special Effects. This was ground breaking when it came out in 86 and is even more today since everything today is CGI. It's as if it wasn't CGI a lot of people wouldn't think this qualifies as special effects. CGI isn't special effects, it's animation. There is a difference. CGI will never surpass real physical effects.
You mentioned "Eastern Promises" with Viggo Mortensen. I highly recommend it, plus, it's got one of the most brutal fight scenes ever!
Unfortunately, you may even have to blurr some of that fight scene and I don't mean it's gory either. Again, that's Cronenberg though.
Recommended Cronenberg: Dead Ringers, Spider, eXistenZ, Crash, Naked Lunch, Videodrome
Spider is superb
"You're afraid to be destroyed and recreated, aren't you? I'll bet you think that you woke me up about the flesh, don't you? But you only know society's straight line about the flesh. You can't penetrate beyond society's sick, gray, fear of the flesh." - one of the most powerfully underrated speeches in cinema. Such a harrowing yet strangely intimate film. Great reaction and review, mate.
If you haven’t seen Geena Davis then you must watch The Long Kiss Goodnight!
And A League of Their Own. Great films. ❤
David Cronenberg is, pound for pound, one of the finest horror directors the medium has ever produced. Any of his horror movies are well worth the time. This kind of body horror is a specialty of his. He had a cameo in THE FLY as the doctor in the dream sequence.
There is a pretty good sequel to this movie directed by Chris Walas, who created the Brundlefly effect for this movie. Not even close to being up to this one but not bad and worth a look.
Jeff trained for this film and was capable of most of the gymnastics his height made some of the moves difficult , but yes it was done by a double.
The sequels worth a watch its a little underrated Geena doesn't return but John Getz does
If your want another horror movie with Goldblum, he costars in the 1978 remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". He's not the star, but he's one of the four or five main characters. The film is a case of the remake surpassing the original.
There was a real competition for best Special Effects back then. With The Thing and An American Werewolf in London out there, they were all trying their very best to push the medium. Remember that Dark Crystal and Return of the Jedi were using puppets that were Set Pieces in there own right… Jaba the Hut was mind blowing and completely practical. Pixar was just a baby at the time.
It's a shame that these artists and creators have been aced out of their careers by computer coders and uninspired directors and producers. Almost nobody agrees that CGI is better.
@@CousinCreepy It's gratifying to see young CZcams reactors so impressed with decades-old practical effects.
@@porflepopnecker4376 agreed!
@@CousinCreepy CGI has it's place. Movies like Dune 2021 show that. However it's a crutch by most studios. The best CGI is when you do not even know it's there.
@@CousinCreepy computer coders only make the applications but they were the first and best animators, at the height of the PlayStation 3 it was computer graphic artists making the animations and hence it all went to hell.
The sequel is worth checking out. The Fly II is a great creature feature on a Saturday night :)
just rewatched that with friends.. had not seen it in a long time and had forgotten how intense it was... I was very entertained and impressed with a lot of the acting and effects
I saw this in the theater, when it first came out. I really appreciated the first reveal to Ronnie of Goldblum: the slow movement of the camera from the back to the front, so the audience isn't really being grossed out as much as it is hold its breath and becoming prepared. It's the reveal of someone suffering, not the reveal of a movie maker hoping to go for a cheap reaction. Extremely sympathetic, especially since we've become invested in the characters, and can appreciate the emotional center of Goldblum.
He was rewording a quote from a poem by Alexander Pope. "A little learning is a dangerous thing ;. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring ". But he says "plasma spring".
Keep the *Geena Davis* train rollin' - 1996's _The Long Kiss Goodnight_ 💋 is an Action classic to watch.
Plus a great turn by Samuel L Jackson
The suspense was amazing because in the original 1958 film, he apparently came out as a man and fly with body parts swapped around (which would've been suitable for the level of effects one might expect from 30 years before). Here, he comes out as still Jeff Goldblum, but almost seemingly with superhuman powers, like a superhero, which throws a slight curve to audiences who saw the original and expected something similar or perhaps based on the movie poster image, and instead he's slowly turning into a giant fly.
The movie has a lot in common with "An American Werewolf" but used a sci-fi angle instead of a supernatural one. That is an earlier film but HIGHLY recommended.
FYI, the dude in the bar that he beats arm wrestling is none other than George Chuvalo, Canadian Heavyweight Boxer that went the distance with Mohammed Ali!
Great reaction! Cheers!
I didn't know.
The Fly is indeed a classic.. Eastern Promises is excellent. Hope you will put it on your list.
Goldblum did some voice acting in "Price of Egypt" and was popular in films like "the Big Chill" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers".
From IMDB: Seth's saying, "Drink deep, or taste not, the plasma spring", is a reference to a famous quote from Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism". The full quote is: "A little learning is a dang'rous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: Their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again."
Great reference!
To save everybody else the trouble:
Pierian= of the Muses
(The Muses are like demi-gods who plant ideas in the minds of men, from Greek mythology.)
So Pierian Spring = the fount, or source, of ideas
You're welcome.
Hey, Shan! "The Fly" is a fusion of two types of horror: mad scientist horror and body horror. In the '40's, the mad science genre was very popular involving a well-intentioned scientist whose revolutionary discovery goes off the rails transforming him or a hapless subject into an actual monster or monstrous person. Classic Victorian horror literature was the basis for this genre with stories like Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and H.G. Wells' "The Invisible Man". Body horror is more explicit and, therefore, more modern. The threat to sanity and self emerges from within rather than from an external source. This genre stems from people's fear of their own bodies betraying them like cancer or congenital deformities or an aversion to bodily functions. The earliest Pre-Code cinematic example is 1932's "Freaks" by Tod Browning. You're already familiar with Canadian director David Cronenberg who specializes in body horror with films like "Rabid", "Scanners", "The Brood", "Videodrome", "Dead Ringers", "Naked Lunch" and "Crash".
In case you weren't aware, there is a classic horror sci-fi from 1958 called "The Fly" directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Vincent Price. A scientist experimenting with teleportation genetically merges with a fly trapped in the telepod. When their atomic structures are reassembled, two beings emerge: a man with a gigantic fly head and a fly with a tiny human head. It sounds ridiculous but it's quite affecting especially the haunting, horrific ending!
David Cronenberg's 1986 remake has the benefit of spectacular practical effects and the phenomenal performances of both Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis. The updated version is a prime example of body horror as Goldblum's human body begins exhibiting fly characteristics that become dominant. It also has a Kafka-esque subtext with existential lines like "I was a fly who dreamt he was a man and loved it but now the fly's awake."
Both films are excellent. They are tragic romances. Seth Brundle was a good man who didn't deserve the horrible fate he suffered. The final teleportation has him merge with the telepod door since it initiated when he was half out of the pod tangled in debris. You feel pity for the man he was and the monstrosity he has become. Unable to speak and in unspeakable pain, he gestures with his head and arm to be destroyed and Geena Davis obliges. It's very sad.
As for John Getz's Stathis, he pays a steep price for being opportunistic and manipulative but is allowed redemption in the climax. That makes for an interesting character with a little more dimension than your standard villain. The world is full of shades of gray.
The sequel is about Brundle's son played by Eric Stoltz. I've heard tell it's a decent follow-up but I've never seen it.
During the VP debate of the last election cycle, SNL parodied both the '58 Neumann film and the '86 Cronenberg film when Jim Carrey's Joe Biden teleported to Mike Pence's head as a human-fly hybrid who began speaking with Jeff Goldblum's distinctive verbal cadence. Did you see the sketch?
You asked for people to comment - Seth is being manic and highly sexual. When Ronnie refuses to teleport, Seth states that Ronnie is not willing to penetrate society’s repulsion of the flesh, that she is not willing to penetrate though the flesh to dive deeply into the plasma pool. When the telepod dematerializes an object, it turns the object into plasma which is a state of matter where atoms and molecules are not bonded together. The plasma is sent to telepod 2 and put back together. Thus, Seth believes that having his body turned into plasma and reconstituted made him better by removing impurities such as toxins, disease, etc. Thus, Seth talking about the plasma pool is not just babble, but makes sense.
You need to continue with the sequel The Fly 2... it cost an arm and a leg to make.
Overall a great movie, part mad scientist part horror part love story, you'll have trouble forgetting this classic. And the protagonist and antagonist switch.
This movie is a 10/10 masterpiece on all levels. One of my favorite horror films. I highly recommend getting the special edition of this on dvd or blue ray, because the special features are great.
In addition to the phenomenal effects (which won an Oscar) and music, the acting and directing are also brilliant, and the story has a lot of heart. It really is heartbreaking to watch this story unfold, designed deliberately to reflect the aids epidemic at the time. By the time we get to the scene when he talks about “insect politics,” and also at the end, you end up feeling so bad for this brilliant individual who was more of a victim than a monster.
"...but human disfigurement, I don't like that at all." Then, Shan, it's unfortunate that you're a Cronenberg fan. Best. Leo.
Jeff Goldblum was one of the punks (in his first film role) who first sets off Charles Bronson in Death Wish
He also played a brief role as a thug in the 1976 Bronson movie St. Ives
@@jamesharper3933 Wow, didn't know that one. Strange coincidence to play a punk in 2 back to back Bronson films. I also noticed that Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger) played a thug in that film
Great reaction video, Shan! I know it's a month away yet, but please keep this in mind for December: You need to see The Long Kiss Goodnight.
Shan needs to see initial Cronenberg classics like Rabid, The Brood, Scanners and especially Videodrome. Without those, it would be impossible to fully appreciate him as an auteur. They're an absolute must.
everything cronenberg made in the 80s is a four or five star classic worth reacting to (the one exception might be the dead zone), his 90s are more spotty but crash is also incredible (though it'd be hard to edit for youtube), and history of violence and eastern promises from the 00s are also great.
The Dead Zone is one of the only decent Stephen King adaptations.
Probably Goldblum's most underrated role was in 1990's Mr Frost,where he plays a serial killer who may be something more.
ha, haven't thought about that one in a looong time... it was the first "horror" movie i ever watched (i believe i was 8 at the time) and it kinda spawned my love for the genre
Geena Davis-
THELMA AND LOUISE (Ridley Scott!)
A League of Their Own
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Earth Girls are Easy (Also with Jeff Goldblum)
Loved your reaction! I knew you would love the Oscar-nominated makeup effects in this film. There is a sequel to this film and also the 1958 original and its two sequels. Can you also react to THE BROOD (1979) which is another great David Cronenberg film?
Great reaction,there is a Fly 2 where she has the baby,and of course the original with the great Vincent Price who was did the speaking part in Michael Jackson's Thriller, but this fly had the body of a fly and the head of a human which creeped me out as a child
Jeff and Geena were married, I loved her In Thelma and Louise and
A League of their own with Tom Hanks and Madonna
Loved your reaction to what I consider to be one of the finest horror films ever made. I was fortunate enough to see it on the big screen in 1986 and it was quite an experience. I also ordered the soundtrack album by Howard Shore, which is one of my top three favorite movie scores of all time. Goldblum is excellent, Oscar-worthy in fact, and Geena Davis really sells it with her reactions, especially during the final transformation sequence. I think this is one of Cronenberg's three best films along with THE DEAD ZONE and SCANNERS. Being so familiar with his earlier films, I thought the cinematography in this one was quite good--the best yet for him.
Shan! I'd love to see you watch Cronenberg's Naked Lunch. The effects are amazing and watching you try to dissect the story would be very entertaining.
I'll second that! Scanners, Videodrome, Dead Ringers, Existenz, etc... ALL amazing in their own ways and definitely worth watching, but being something of a bookworm and a fan of counterculture literature in particular, Naked Lunch will always be my favorite Cronenberg film. Beautiful, disgusting, compelling, bizarre... BRILLIANT.
Just remembered another essential Jeff Goldblum role you might want to check out: "The Big Chill" (1983), which has an amazing cast, a comedy-drama that's about college friends from the late 60s who reunite (in the early 80s) for a weekend after one of them kills himself. Sort of the opposite side of "American Graffiti"! Goldblum is fantastic in it, as is everyone else, and it's got one of the greatest soundtracks since....."American Graffiti"! lol.
From Cronenberg. I highly recommend some of his older films the Brood. Scanners and Videodrome. Videodrome is excellent. Also this film is actually a remake from the 50s movie the Fly.
I'm sure there will be plenty of people who will recommend other amazing Cronenberg films for you, so I will highly suggest you check out the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Along with The Fly, it's one of the finest horror movie remakes ever, and it has Goldblum in another semi-serious role. Seriously, it's a film that is both terrifying and beautiful
I was born in ‘78 and watched this and many other horror movies back when they were new. I wasn’t really scared but this movie to this day still grosses me out. This is a case where the remake FAR outdoes the original 1950s version.
Since you have done 'the fly' and 'the thing', you should do 'The Blob 1988' to finish up the practical effects trifecta.
Jeff Goldblum was also great in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (50's film remake) 1978 and the made for TV movie "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"1980 and two good original sci-fi dramas "Threshold" 1981 and "Powder" 1995.
One of my favorite reactions of yours in awhile, Shan. Good stuff. Keep it up.
He laughed when Ronnie kills Brundle, though. ^^;
@@SCharlesDennicon It's such an absurd concept that laughter is not an out-of-the-box response. Shan understood the film well, IMO.
Yeah I saw this film once and I'm hesitant to ever do so again, it was that disturbing lol. Funny enough I just saw the 1958 The Fly for the first time last night. Obviously it was less gruesome, but in a way more of a downer, for a couple of reasons.
Just wanted to say, Cronenberg is Canadian. This was filmed in Toronto. The guy he arm wrestled was George Chuvalo (Former Canadian Heavyweight boxing Champion) He fought Muhammad Ali. Ali said he was the toughest guy he ever fought.
In the beginning when you said "i don't like body horror".... i knew this was going to be a Great reaction! The Fly is one of the Best Horror remakes! See also the remake of The Blob from 1986!
Absolutely yes to Eastern Promises. That movie is outstanding!
I find it funny that so many reaction channels do the same movies and pretty much the same time, several of the channels I'm subbed to just recently did The Fly, and here we go again. :) I guess now part of the explanation is that people are doing scary movies because of horroctober, but it's not a phenomenon isolated to this month. It's like you guys get together and decide to do the same movies.. xD
Yea, it's a trendwagon - but at least Shan often reacts to films that no one else has reacted to before - plus, he has really great summaries.
I've noticed that too. Perhaps it is A) as a creator, you look around to see what's popular to cover & B) the film comes recommended by supporters. Either way, I always enjoy Shan's reactions & analysis.
Yeah I don't mind it at all, I just found it peculiar. :) Like I had been recommending Bram Stoker's Dracula over and over again on several channels for well over a year, with no success, then suddenly within like two weeks, four or five of the reaction channels I'm subbed to did the movie..! xD
In the 80s we couldn't do much with genes, but the idea of gene sequencing was within conception. The Human Genome Project had not yet been completed and I don't think anyone had even heard of genetic therapies or the idea of using a retrovirus to spread genetic changes into an already-born organism. The idea had been that genetic engineering would have to happen to the fertilized single cell. So, the idea of using a teleporter to make a genetic change throughout a whole organism was genius.
Jeff Goldblum, what a star
I recommend watching the original The Fly -- it is very good for it's time. I also recommend some classic Abbot & Costello movies.
This reaction was the one most enjoyed by Shan till this day.
You're right, she did keep the baby, and that's where The Fly II comes in. Starring Eric Stoltz, and some fantastic practical effects. Not quite as good as the first film, but definitely worth a watch.
Howard Shore actually composed an opera based on the movie. Considering the subject matter I had assumed it would be a rock opera or techno opera but no, it's a full on classical opera, with an orchestra and everything.
One of the few remakes that, I think, is better than the original, and not just because of the revolutionary practical makeup effects. David Cronenberg has a cameo - he plays the doctor who delivers the maggot in the nightmare sequence. The sequel bombed and most people didn't like it, but I thought it was worthwhile.
This is a great film.
Glad you liked it too.
David Cronenberg is similar to David Lynch. His films are dark, graphic and weird. Also very artsy.
Hope you watch more of his films.
This is a Brook's film, (yes as in Mel Brooks not so funny comedy director) who also produced THE ELEPHANT MAN film, so all the choices made were spot on,- production, casting original story, visual fx the look of the teleport pods, and it came out when an epidemic was going around in the real world
For more Jeff see The Big Chill. It is legendary and an excellent lens into today…. From the Stock Market to the Podcaster. Jeff and the rest of the Allstar cast are amazing. Enjoy.
Jeff Goldblum DID DO A LOT of the gymnastic moves that you see in the movie. He's very flexible because he's done yoga for decades. When you research this you'll find out that I believe he actually did 75 or 80% of what you see in that portion of the movie.
Shan watching The Fly on the day before Halloween? Count me in!
Jeff Goldblum is in the 1970s remake of the "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is a MUST SEE, and the best version by far.
It's not a garage that he lives in, it's called a converted loft. There's a lot of those buildings in NYC. They're huge and basically set up as one big room it's maybe a few beams holding it up. Originally they were used for storage for businesses. But if you're lucky and you can get into one a lot of times if your family owned one of them through their business. That way you can get into something that's called RENT CONTROL in NYC. That was started decades ago in New York City and it can only be bequeathed to you from a relatives will. A lot of this rent control setup was initiated in NYC right after World War II. So you're really not even paying the rents that are the going rate in NYC. You're paying something amazingly so much lower than that when it comes to taxes and everything. My aunt had an apartment that was rent controlled in Jamaica Queens and she left it to my cousin. It was amazing because when you walked in it actually had what's known as a Grand Lobby for the entryway to it. There was all this stenciled floral patterns on the wall that actually had gold INn the paint. Her apartment had one of those very small elevators with a little tiny push buttons. A lot of them in the old buildings don't even have elevators. You have to do the narrow hallway "walk-ups" when you want to get up to your floor. Her elevator was decorated with the ceiling having the same design as the lobby. But the ceiling had glass underneath the gold design. A lot of these buildings are very beautiful when you look at how they were designed. Even though the lofts will mostly used for business a lot of artists will get together and rent them. They do it because on one end of The lofts are huge windows that you can see in this movie. They give off amazing light so it's a wonderful workspace for them. I'm Brooklyn Born and Long Island raised, when I was very young I lived in a loft before I moved out here.
We could sequence DNA in the 80s but it was painfully slow and it required a large sample. In the late 80s and early 90s Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) made it possible to multiply, and therefore sequence, the DNA from small samples, often obtained as forensic samples. It was with the inception of the Human Genome Project in the later 90s when technology to sequence DNA rapidly really began to improve.
We have A.I. systems now that can respond in natural language, but to have run that software in the 80s couldn't be achieved with even the world's most powerful supercomputer (Cray) of the era.
Geena Davis in Long Kiss Goodnight. A must. Excellent action film and hilarious to boot. Also stars Samuel L. Jackson. An entire movie of excellent dialogue and cool one liners.
Geena Davis and King Jeff crushed their roles in this flick.
Checkout Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). Jeff Goldblum is really good in that movie too, some of his earlier work.
19:40 'lost an arm and a leg' haha. Funny you notice that, in The Fly 2 Stathis says that. An expression literally😅 he says it cost him an arm and a leg
The original 50's one is pretty creepy also, especially the ending, the 'Heeellllp Meeee!' scene.
Geena and Jeff got married after meeting on this film. One of the few remakes ( the original film is from 1954) that is better than the original. There is an often overlooked bit of a nice ending. Seth states that an insect will survive at any cost. Thus, when Brundle Fly/telepod points the shotgun at his head, it means that a bit of Seth’s humanity has survived. Yeah, Ronnie shoots him but Seth points the gun at his head.
Geena Davis’ career - Oscar for Accidental Tourist, Thelma and Louise, Tootsie, The Long Kiss Goodbye.
There was a sequel to this movie that came out later that was about Goldblum's kid with Geena Davis's character. It was something. I'm just putting that info out there...you do with it what you want. Great Reaction BTW
Shan, you'll want to check out the 80's remake of The Blob...stunning practical and prosthetic work. It's just a terrific movie too, written by Frank Darabont and directed by Chuck Russell....
Goldblum was in an excellent low-budget psych/horror film called Mr. Frost. He plays the Devil and is great in it.
I reccomend Gina Davis and William Hurt in The Accidental Tourist. Great movie
Hey Shan! Did you know that the scene in which the fly emerges from inside didn't work the first time because one piece didn't come off the fly's head. So the FX guys had to rebuild the exterior of what was left of the human outside; then the second time, the big piece on the head fell off!
A few facts about this movie that you may not already know. The original 1958 movie "The Fly" directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Vincent Price was a story about a scientist who becomes a full fledged house fly after being telaported in his basement lab with a stowaway fly. Much of the movie is about his distraught wife and good friend trying to capture him as he frantically flies around his house and gardens. Sadly he meets with a horrific ending which I will not reveal in case you want to watch the movie yourself. Another fun fact is Jeff Goldblum and Gina Davis were married during the filming of this movie which explains the great chemistry they had together.
second reaction my friend, love these keep it coming 💪🏻👍🏻
The original The Fly from 1958 is also worth watching. Same general story, but done in a different way. And Vincent Price is in it so...
"I don't mind scary movies...but human disfigurement..." It was at that moment, we all knew, Shan fucked up. lol
I recommend that you look up An American Werewolf in London and The Howling for additional 1980s practical effects of impressive caliber. Good reaction Shan, I saw this in the theater and followed Gina Davis after this.