The Fly
1986 · 96 min · Horror / Science Fiction · TMDB 7.4
The short version:A scientist slowly becomes an insect. Love story first, body horror second, with a notorious arm-wrestling scene and a pregnancy nightmare.
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Scare profile
Editorial baseline. Add your own report to refine it.
Scary3
Not scaryExtreme
Dread4
RelaxedSuffocating
Jump scares2
NoneConstant
Disturbing4
ForgettableHaunts you
Grim4
Fun ridePunishing
Synopsis
When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
What is in it
Intensity: brief means implied, off-screen or a single moment; heavy means graphic, prolonged or central. Items marked “inferred from keywords” come from TMDB tags and have not been confirmed by a person.
Violence & gore
- Graphic goreHeavyeditorial
Children & pregnancy
- Pregnancy & childbirth traumaModerateeditorial
Details (may spoil)
- A nightmare birth of a giant maggot; an abortion is sought.
Sexual content & violence
- Sex & nudityModerateeditorial
Animals
- Animals as the threatModerateinferred from keywords
- Animal harmed or killedModerateeditorial
Details (may spoil)
- A baboon is turned inside out by the teleporter.
Body & medical
- Body horrorHeavyeditorial
- Disease & terminal illnessModerateeditorial
- Vomiting & gross-outModerateeditorial
Phobias & sensory
- Spiders & insectsModerateeditorial