The Fly (1986): Cronenberg's Love Story Told in Meat

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000

People remember The Fly for the fingernails. The ear. The baboon turned inside out. The moment a man walks his own severed body parts to a bathroom cabinet he keeps like a museum of what he used to be. Chris Walas won an Academy Award for that makeup, and he earned it — the effects still look wet and specific and horribly plausible forty years on. But the gore is the delivery system, and mistaking it for the film is like remembering a funeral for the flowers. David Cronenberg made a monster movie whose real subject is the thing nobody wants to watch: love standing at a bedside while a body it adores dissolves.

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The Fly (1986): Cronenberg's Love Story Told in Meat