1986 · 96 min

The Fly

Name: The Fly
Director: David Cronenberg
Released: 1986-08-15

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.

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Quick Facts

Confidence: HIGH

Status: Provisional

Director: David Cronenberg

Why It's Disturbing

A disturbing body-horror transformation involving teleportation, human–insect fusion, mutation, and invasive physical changes, with tragic undertones.

Psychological20

Gore8

Bleakness43

Realism20

Dread20

Violence15

Body Horror100

100

Taboo8

Lingering Impact23

22.8

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The Fly has a DreadQ Score of 24/100. The score reflects psychological impact, dread, bleakness, violence, gore, realism and other disturbance dimensions.

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