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	DVD Review - The Fly / Return Of The Fly
		Everything about the film seems cheap: the scaled-back lab set, the paper-mache fly make-up, even the fl and white photography seems a low-budget compromise to the luster of the original.
		The sources for both films are extremely clean and the widescreen anamorphic transfers culled from them are practically perfect.
		"Fly’s" 5.0 track suffers the same anamoly that popped up with the discrete audio for "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea." The discrete mix has a tendency to place the dialogue in speakers other than the center channel.
	www.dvdreview.com /reviews/pages/1429.shtml (1333 words)

	The Fly
		The Fly is a 1986 science fiction film produced by Brooksfilms and Twentieth Century Fox Television, directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis and John Getz.
		It is a high budget remake of 1958 film of the same name, but with a substantially different plot.
		The film was also spoofed in the episode Treehouse of Horror VIII from The Simpsons, when Bart tries to use a teleportation machine to become a superhero half man half fly.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/The_Fly_28198629.php (1121 words)

	The Fly (1986)
		This film builds up the love story element a lot more so the finale seems more poignant than when David Hedison was crushed in the press in the original.
		You actually sympathise with the fly but his eventual demise lacks the killer punch which the film really needed.
		Final Verdict: On the whole, The Fly is a pretty good, engrossing horror film and is one of the very few remakes to better the original.
	www.popcornpictures.co.uk /ffilms/fly86.shtml (319 words)

	Classic-Horror Review of The Fly (1958)
		This section of The Fly is sustained for some time, and when the moment comes that Helen reveals the shocking backstory, which is re-enacted instead of just re-told, and which ends up forming the bulk of the film, it’s the perfect moment for a release from the tension of the mystery.
		The Fly was released in the midst of the 50’s monster-film craze, and make no mistake, it is an attempt to capitalize on that trend.
		But unlike most of those films, it never seems cheesy or campy, the science never seems like complete nonsense, and none of it comes across as unintentionally funny at this late date--even allowing for the relatively primitive special effects and the occasionally lampooned late scene involving a spider web.
	classic-horror.com /reviews/fly58.shtml (744 words)

	THE FLY/THE FLY II - DOUBLE FEATURE DVD
		David Cronenberg's most memorable and profound films are a unique blend of fascination, celebration, inquisitiveness and horror with regard to the possibilities of the flesh.
		Each film is presented on alternate sides of the disc, and each sports a pleasing 16x9 widescreen transfer (approximately 1.85:1 in the case of both The Fly and The Fly II) and decently remastered 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtracks.
		Only occasionally does the film show its age, with a slightly faded appearance here or there (mostly during the few brightly lit outdoor scenes), but for the most part the colors are rich and saturated, and the disc really supports the image when its needed most.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/flyflyii.htm (1312 words)

	The Fly (1986 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fly is a 1986 science fiction film produced by Brooksfilms and 20th Century Fox, directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis and John Getz.
		The film is more of a reconceptualization than a remake, one which takes the basic germ of the 1957 short story and the 1958 film and then goes in a different direction.
		The film was also widely taken to be about AIDS, although Cronenberg denies this and states that the subtext/metaphor of the film is the natural process of aging and death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Fly_(1986_film) (5241 words)

	The Fly (1958)
		I won't reveal the shocking surprise (the guy has a fly head and and a fly arm) but suffice it to say the doctor spends a good portion of the rest of the movie with a towel over his head and his hand in his pocket.
		She don't speak Fly and his head that speaks English is in a spider's web in the garden screaming for help.
		His fly hand tries to stop his human hand from writing to his wife, but in a touching scene he is able to spell out in chalk that he loves her and she needs to drop an industrial press on his prickly head.
	monsterhunter.coldfusionvideo.com /Fly.html (1785 words)

	UGO.com Film/TV - The Fly - Twice Scared: UGO's Guide to Horror Remakes
		The man who became a fly (and the fly who became a man) served, at the very least, as a marvelous inspiration for the brilliant 1986 remake.
		The Fly is a parable of humanity's self-destructive tendency, a story of the process by which we degrade ourselves by wishing to become something better, stronger - anything other than what we essentially are.
		Jeff Goldblum's quirky, geeky, manic but lovable Seth Brundle is a contemporary tragic hero who, in his ambition to cement his scientific reputation, to serve his fellow humans and to win and keep the woman he loves, betrays his every belief and, finally, murders himself.
	www.ugo.com /channels/filmtv/features/horrorremakes/fly.asp (446 words)

	The Fly (1958)
		The film is quite boring really and only picks up towards the end.
		It's your typical mad scientist film where you don't know what he is doing until the end product so there is a bit of mystery there (however the film's title is an obvious giveaway).
		The first is when Patricia Owens pulls the cloth off her husband's head to reveal his fly face (and then you can see her screaming throughout the numerous eyes of the fly).
	www.popcornpictures.co.uk /ffilms/fly58.shtml (333 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Fly: Collector's Edition
		Oddly, the film transfer seems pretty much the same as it was on the flipper-disc version, which was pretty good to begin with.
		George Langelaan's original short story (which is very similar to the 1958 film, although Fox does not give us James Clavell's screenplay to that one), Charles Edward Pogue's draft of the remake (in which a married nebbish battles his greedy corporate masters and the insect inside him), and Cronenberg's rewrite are all included.
		The film is accessible to audiences who could not give a damn who directed it, and for Cronenberg junkies, it neatly encapsulates his themes while piling on wit and action.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/flyce.php (2676 words)

	THE FLY/THE FLY II - DOUBLE FEATURE DVD
		David Cronenberg's most memorable and profound films are a unique blend of fascination, celebration, inquisitiveness and horror with regard to the possibilities of the flesh.
		Each film is presented on alternate sides of the disc, and each sports a pleasing 16x9 widescreen transfer (approximately 1.85:1 in the case of both The Fly and The Fly II) and decently remastered 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtracks.
		Only occasionally does the film show its age, with a slightly faded appearance here or there (mostly during the few brightly lit outdoor scenes), but for the most part the colors are rich and saturated, and the disc really supports the image when its needed most.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/flyflyii.htm (1312 words)

	Home Theater Forum - Finally: The Fly (1986) and The Fly II (1989) Special Editions are coming in Fall of 2005!
		A logical extrapolation of Cronenberg's Fly universe would be that, after the events of the first film, telportation research would continue, but most likely without the sci-fi/horror aspects of the film (and would then change the world as we know it).
		That was a private conversation from the first film between Seth and Ronnie that was not videotaped.
		But, as I've said, taken by itself, Fly II is a fun little gothic horror film, with a fine payoff at the end (we see Bartok pay for his evil deeds, and Martin--and perhaps, in a way, Seth--is redeemed.).
	www.hometheaterforum.com /htforum/printpost.php?postid=2724750 (429 words)

	The Fly - Blu-ray DVD Jeff Goldblum
		The important difference between this Fly and the 1958 version is the relationship between the male and female protagonists.
		The wife in the earlier film is kept properly in the kitchen while the husband goes about his experiments in secret.
		But what sets Cronenberg's film apart the 1958 version and, for that matter, most horror films, is the love story and his willingness to see it to its logical conclusion.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film2/DVDReviews33/the_fly_blu-ray.htm (1128 words)

	The Fly (1958)
		At the beginning of The Fly, Helene Delambre (Patricia Owens) is turning herself in for the murder of her scientist husband Andre (Al Hedison, who later changed his name to David to disguise his association with this film).
		Of course, a fly had gotten into the mix and he is revealed to have the head and arm of the poor creature.
		The Fly is the kind of date you can always bring home to meet Mom, knowing she'll feel comforted in the fact that you'll come home on time, sober and with every hair still in place.
	www.amateurmoviereviews.com /2006/11/fly-1958.html (788 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: The Fly
		Thankfully, Cronenberg's draft of Charles Edward Pogue's screenplay switches focus from the damsel in distress freakshow of the original 1958 film to (predominately) the slow transformation and decomposition of the human body and what it does to that body's owner.
		Be very afraid."), almost every one of The Fly's viscous substances reflect the of-the-moment AIDS panic, re-characterizing the film as something of a requiem for the pool orgy abandon of the director's decade-earlier They Came from Within.
		The first scene of the film is an unmistakable sexual pick-up, in which Goldblum entices Davis to come to his apartment to see his private discovery, something that will change the world.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1876 (411 words)

	The Fly (1959) / Return Of The Fly (1959)
		In the 1986 film, much is made over the vicious character our man-fly will become when the transformation is complete, and he has to fight off his more brutal instincts.
		While 1989's The Fly II remains one of filmdom's most universally despised sequels, I was unaware of any such animosity toward an earlier sequel to the original, 1959's Return of the Fly.
		At least the 1986 and 1989 films took some pains to deal with the issue of contamination during transportation; all runs through the cycle were done nude in those flicks.
	www.dvdmg.com /flyandreturn.shtml (3388 words)

	The Fly (1958)
		"The Fly" was originally a story by George Langelaan that appeared in the June 1957 issue of Playboy magazine.
		You killed a fly with a human head.
		She killed a human with a fly head.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0051622 (420 words)

	EI > DVD > Fly, The: Collector's Edition (1986)
		David Cronenberg's remake of "The Fly" is, without the exception of "Aliens", the best sci-fi film of the last 25 years.
		In the original 1958 film, the scientist (played by David Hedison) came out the other end with a fly head and arm.
		As is the cast in all great horror films, the audience gives their sympathy to the tragic hero, even when he turns into a hideous beast.
	einsiders.com /reviews/dvd/show_dvd.php?review_dvd=484 (943 words)

	DVD Times - The Fly (1958) / Return Of The Fly (1959) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The special effects are fantastic considering the film's age, and the film should be respected for not shirking away when it comes to showing us the hideous results of Andre's fly-mashed body.
		The film only lasts for an hour and fifteen minutes, and yet is plodding and too lengthy for the most part.
		The picture and sound qualities of the films are very good, and at least the two films each have their own disc unlike the Region 1.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=5011 (1789 words)

	The Fly - David Cronenberg Film Movie Review
		The Fly is a decidedly Cronenbergian reconceptualization that greatly exceeds the 1958 original.
		At the center of The Fly is Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum), a brilliant yet weird reclusive and lonely scientist.
		The Fly shows how computers are inferior to men and some of the problems their use can cause.
	www.metalasylum.com /ragingbull/movies/fly.html (1566 words)

	The Fly Collection (The Fly, Return of the Fly, The Curse of the Fly
		After all attempts to recapture the tiny fly fail and with the mind of the fly slowly taking over Andre’s personality, he enlists the aid of his shocked wife, Helene (Patricia Owens) to destroy all evidence of his botched experiment…including himself.
		He has often said that this film was not bad, but he did object to filming in fl and white because the first one was in color and felt that both should be in color to keep the continuity.
		The opening is pure film noir as Patricia runs through the forest in slow motion over the opening credits with the London Symphony Orchestra (led by Bert Shefter who did the music for the previous films) playing a piano concerto in the background.
	www.dvddrive-in.com /reviews/e-h/flycollection585965.htm (1792 words)

	Fly, The (1986): Reviews
		David Cronenberg's The Fly is that absolute rarity of the '80s: a film that is at once a pure, personal expression and a superbly successful commercial enterprise.
		The Fly is a mass-market, horror- film masterpiece that is also a work of art; it is the very movie the timorous feared "Aliens" would be - a gruesome, disturbing, fundamentally uncompromising shocker that accesses the subconscious.
		David Cronenberg's remake of the 1958 horror classic The Fly is not for the squeamish.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/fly (371 words)

	FILM ROTATION : The Fly: Ultimate Collector's Edition DVD Review (Region 2) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Seth Brundle went by choice into the telepod that caused him to be spliced with a fly whereas Martin Brundle was born with his fathers mutated DNA already present.
		Film Tests: (6 min 34s) A collection of five film tests for various of the SFX used in the movie.
		The biggest dissapointment here is that some film historian or other (I'm thinking someone like Bob Burns would of been perfect) didn't get asked to do a commentary for the three original movies, but apart from that this is boxset that should be very high on your list of purchases.
	www.filmrot.com /articles/reviews/006917.php (3140 words)

	The Fly (1958)
		The film has become somewhat of a classic of the era, one that is often unjustly laughed at and held up to ridicule.
		The film was directed by Kurt Neumann, a director who made a number of other genre films in the 1950s.
		The remake was The Fly (1986), directed/written by genre favourite David Cronenberg who reworked the story to make it a much more logically feasible study of a man mutating into a fly hybrid.
	www.moria.co.nz /sf/fly58.htm (691 words)

	Review: Fly, The (1986)
		The Fly arrived in the midst of what could arguably be called the most fertile period of Cronenberg's career.
		The idea of fusing or splicing fly DNA with human DNA doesn't sound outlandish (especially in a climate where stem cells have become a hot political topic) and some of what happens to the main character is at least conceivable.
		We are also spared the unintentionally humorous concept of a fly with a little human head (which made an appearance in the 1958 movie).
	www.reelviews.net /movies/f/fly.html (1128 words)

	THE FLY JEFF GOLBLUM AND GEENA DAVIS
		The Fly is a 1986 science fiction film produced by Brooksfilms and 20th Century Fox, directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis and John Getz.
		It is a high budget remake of 1958 film of the same name, but with a substantially different plot.
		The film was also widely taken to be about AIDS, although Cronenberg denies this and states that the subtext/metaphor of the film is the natural process of aging ans death.
	www.solarnavigator.net /films_movies_actors/the_fly.htm (1566 words)

	The Fly (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although it is a showcase for the make-up effects of Walas and his crew, and was Cronenberg's biggest production, the film is a surprisingly compressed, intimate work.
		The film is most remarkable for its unwavering attention to the human element that glistens behind the eyes of its monster, which makes THE FLY Cronenbergs supreme portrayal of "the immortal soul tied to the body of a dying animal."
		An unrelentingly gory film that explores the "poetry of the flesh"...
	members.tripod.com /~southwor/DavidCronenberg/fly.html (468 words)

	allmovie ((( The Fly > Overview )))
		His atoms have become mixed up with the fly, and now he is unable to reverse the procedure.
		Infinitely subtler than the admittedly excellent 1986 remake, the 1958 The Fly is one of the definitive big-budget horror films of its decade.
		The Fly was adapted from George Langelaan's short story by James (Shogun) Clavell.
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