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Just watched The Fly (1986) by David Cronenberg. His sixth movie. The last one in the body horror era. What an incredible movie. The story is excellent. It’s about a scientist who slowly mutates after a teleportation experiment. The special effects are excellent. His best yet. Makeup, costumes, prosthetics, animatronics. Top notch. All of it. No wonder this is one of his most famous works. The creature is absolutely disgusting. Fun fact: Cronenberg plays in the movie. 8.8/10 #nodereviews
CGI was used in this one. But only for minor touch ups. The technology was brand new at that time. Not very good. Chris Walas who worked on the effects gets the credit for the movie’s impact.
I can understand that. The creature is disgusting. I think the fact that a normal guy transforms slowly makes it scary
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Definitely. I’ve seen more recent body horror movies, before the fly. But now having seen this one I can see how they draw inspiration from it.
Phenomenal. His descent into insanity is amazing. From quirky to insane. Was he known before that one or is it his breakout role?
This will definitely be a rewatch. A few of that first wave of Cronenberg movies will be. Very curious of the second part of his career: psychological/existential from dead ringers to existenz. So many movies
It’s the 4th one. Soon. I’ll let you know
According to grok he was in 17 movies before that breakout role. He kept grinding and it paid off!
Only Annie Hall (1977) and Invasion of the body snatchers (1978). Actually body snatchers I’m not even sure I’ve seen but I really want to
Nice! How was body snatchers? I want to see but I have quite a list to finish first 😂
Saw that one yesterday. Special effects were really good
So long ago and the effects are great even today. Have you seen the brood? I really like that one
Yes. I watched it twice already. Fantastic film. It used a mix of practical effects and cgi. But cgi was used just a bit to enhance some scenes. Most of the horror stuff was prosthetics, makeup and animatronics. The type of movie that someone can watch in 20 years and not feel dated because of the effects
Seems like a good one to add to the list
The list is expanding 😂
FYI next one is Crash and ExistenZ afterwards 🫡
