Katt Shea on “The Fly”
Sep 9, 2011
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Cronenberg's tragicomic gross-out remake of the 1958 Vincent Price original goes to extremes unusual for a major studio release. Jeff Goldblum plays the charmingly off-kilter scientist Seth Brundle whose experiment backfires, turning him into a six foot, four inch insect; "Brundlefly". Goldblum's low key humor and close-to-the-vest performance, along with the empathetic screenplay (echoing the mordant comedy of Kafka's Metamorphosis), anchors the film in the workaday world, even as the movie becomes increasingly, almost absurdly, repulsive. The brilliantly icky make-up effects, by Cronenberg's partner-in-slime, Chris Walas, took the Academy Award.
Kirdog on She Gods of Shark Reef
02/22/2012
I swear to she-god, one of your all time greatest! This trailer is ALMOST as awesome as the iconic poster! Love that pan of chanting 'island beauties' and Mr. Corman's commentary is as relaxing as a Hawaiian vacation...
Brian Trenchard-Smith on White Line Fever
02/21/2012
I was in LA at the time doing promotional work for the Fox release of my MFHK. I remember going to WLF on Hollywood Boulevard and having a pulse pounding ride that purged the stresses of the day...
JohnH on White Line Fever
02/21/2012
I remember this from years ago and it's really good. And the commentary is full of the stuff I need to know! I wondered why we did not see much more of JMV, now I know.
Caelum on White Line Fever
02/20/2012
As a Dick Miller completest, I clearly have to see this picture. I can't believe it's passed me by so far.
Kirdog on Diabolique
02/20/2012
Love this one, and love all the cheezy plot within a plot within a plot ripoffs that followed (remember all those gorgeous black and white Hammer second features?).
swac on White Line Fever
02/20/2012
It out-convoys CONVOY! I wonder if this inspired Peckinpah to make his ill-fated trucker movie.
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