Be Afraid.

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With the upcoming release of The Last Voyage of the Demeter, the story of Dracula tormenting the crew of a boat on their way to London. We thought we’d go back and look at some of our favorite monsters throughout cinema.

The Fly (1986)

Written by Christian Boyd

It’s my turn to make a pick and I’m stoked it’s for Monsters Week!

I wanted to share with you all my favorite monsters in film history.

Brundle-Fly!

My god what a badass name.

David Cronenberg’s talent for thinking up disgusting ways to show the human body is unmatched. It's easy to see why he wanted to take on this project.

It’s The Fly!

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

My Strange Obsession

Men trying to achieve greatness and then arriving only to eventually destroy themselves is a sub-genre that I’m strangely obsessed with.

The Social Network, Nightmare Alley, and most recently, Oppenheimer, just to name a few.

There is something about watching these characters, who are so smart or talented, fail to get out of their own way that I enjoy so much.

*Note to therapist, we should do some digging on that.

Anyway, David Cronenberg's The Fly falls perfectly into this class of film.

Seth Brundle’s (Jeff Goldblum) greatness has led him towards the art of discovery: he has created the ability to transport matter from one place to another. He then decides to use himself as the test run for the first human to transport.

What he doesn’t realize is that a house fly has made its way into the machine, fusing their DNA together, beginning the process of turning Seth Brundle into Brundle-Fly.

In most of these films, I somewhat enjoy watching greatness turn into destruction.

But somehow Cronenberg is able to make one of the nastiest creatures you have ever seen, into possibly the most sympathetic monster on film.

The Master of Body Horror

David Cronenberg’s use of practical make-up and effects in this film are some of the best ever captured with a camera.

At around the 55 minutes mark this film kicks it into another gear. I've seen the film at least 3 times now. It’s still hard for me not to turn my eyes away when Brundle-Fly is pulling fingernails off his puss-dripping hands.

Cronenberg is able to find the most twisted ways imaginable to destroy the human body.

He is obsessed with it.

In my opinion, the things he does to Dr. Seth Brudle in this film are the reason he holds the belt.

And here is a scene to prove it…

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