the fog and friday the 13th and halloween and the omen represent just a few of the classic horror title that have recently suffer the indignity of an extremely inferior remake by greedy studio keen to make an easy buck . with box office receipt the only consideration and the maker of these lazy cash cow make no attempt at improve upon the original and aware that indiscriminate teen will flock to see their film and regardless of quality . back in the 80 and however and thing be a little different represent easy money come in the form of sequel and which be churn out in rapid succession and but remake be rare and a surprising amount of care go into their production . chuck russell 1988 version of the blob be a hugely entertaining romp from a director who clearly love the genre while john carpenter the thing ooze with atmosphere and push make up fx to a new level while but it be david cronenberg re imagining of the fly which really prove that a skilled director bless with a unique vision could turn a remake into a masterpiece . cronenberg keep the basic plot from the vincent price classica scientist experiment with teleportation becomes horribly disfigure after his body be accidentally merge with that of a houseflybut discard the silly notion of a man sport a massive fly head and arm . instead and the director once again indulge his obsession with the flesh and and have his protagonist suffer a much more gradual fate represent in the day follow his seemingly successful experiment and genius seth brundle ( a wonderfully eccentric jeff goldblum ) gradually transform into a monstrous creature a his body struggle to fuse his own dna with that of the fly . in addition to lose his look and bit of his body and his ability to digest and and eventually his mind and brundle also have to cope with the possibility of lose girlfriend veronica quaife ( geena davis ) and who be pregnant with his child . when madness finally take control of seth and and his transformation into brundlefly be almost complete and the scientist abduct veronica a she attempt to abort her pregnancy and take her home to his lab and and push her into one of his teleportation pod and his intention be to merge himself with veronica and their unborn child and thus create the ultimate family . a superb central performance from goldblum and whose quirky and individualistic acting style be perfect for such an unusual role and be perfectly complement by the equally unique davis and and solid support be give from john getz a veronica loathsome ex boyfriend stathis borans . the film also benefit immensely from stunning creature and gore effect courtesy of make up artist chris walas ( who create the memorable creature from gremlin ) while these ensure that the fly be as nauseating a it be heart breakingly tragic . amongst the revolt sight on offer be a very painful look broken arm inflict by seth during a show of strength in a bar and a quivering inside out baboon ( one of seth earlier mistake ) and and the brundlefly vomit corrosive liquid onto stathis hand and foot . if i be go to nitpick and i might argue that baboon seem like an unnecessarily dangerous test animal for brundle to work with ( but then again and maybe they have a special on baboon at the pet store ) and the scientist uncanny ability to program a computer to recognise the poetry of flesh ( a he put it ) come a little too easy and but these be minor niggles and do very little to spoil the film a a whole . with hollywood currently show no sign of slow down the remake production line and perhaps those responsible should take a look at the fly to remind themselves how the job should be do properly .