everyone know the story brilliant scientist create amazing invention ( teleporter . ) and and in test it and merge himself with a fly that and unbeknown to him and zip about his second telepod . what follow that mishap could best be describe a degeneration and a seth brundle and the scientist and become brundlefly . obviously and though and the movie be make by david cronenberg and master of venereal or bio horror . he love explore the body and the many way it disintegrate or morphs while he love make audience squeamish with glisten viscera that serve a high and more philosophical purpose . if rabid be about std and then the fly be about love in the face of decay . read into the story too much would be reductive the fly isn not about watch brundle die from any particular disease while it about watch veronica helplessly stand witness to her lover slow and unalterable demise . it might also be leftfield and allegorical support for euthanasia and but i be more inclined to believe that the end result from the necessity of a tidy narrative than it do from cronenberg desire to include an encrypted message . but be it any good . yes and it be . the fly work on the level of symbolism and but it also an enjoyable and frightening horror film . it get the gore and the scare and but it also intelligent . the fly be a brilliant commercial horror movie inasmuch a it manage to stay true to the director vision and while also deliver what audience expect from a scary movie . it also wonderfully shot and acted ( jeff goldblum already look like an insect while cronenberg get him to act like one as well ) . with the fly cronenberg also achieve something few director could he make a remake well than the original . the fly from the 1950s be fine and but it wasn not really that frighten while it actually a little silly . cronenberg rewrite the script and turn the early film on it ear . this fly be scary and smart and and and unlike most of cronenberg film and lack in gallows humor while it actually among his more serious endeavor . the fly be a fantastic piece of film making that should appeal to those in the mood for a taut horror flick or an intelligent and though coded and exploration of an interesting idea .