10 Best Sci-Fi Horror Films To Watch Halloween 2020

A remake of the 1958 original, The Fly focuses on Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) as he invites reporter Veronica Quaife (Geena Davis) to his warehouse laboratory to witness his latest invention, a device capable of teleporting inorganic matter. However, the machine cannot teleport living things, as several mutilated lab animals have proved, so whilst Seth and Veronica begin a relationship, Seth spends his time trying to modify the machine to allow him to teleport organic matter. Believing that he has solved the issue, Seth decides to teleport himself, and emerges seemingly unaffected by the process.

However, a fly was able to make its way into the teleporter, causing the machine to fuse the fly's DNA with that of Seth's. After a while, Seth begins to slowly mutate into a hideously scarred and deformed man/fly creature. As Veronica watches in horror, Seth attempts everything he can to transform himself back before his humanity is replaced with the fly's animal instincts.

Whilst the original movie is a campy, enjoyable B movie, Cronenberg's remake decided to go in the opposite direction, depicting the transformation from man to fly in agonising detail. David Cronenberg's films are known for their excruciating body horror, and this film is no exception. The practical make-up and gore effects used to depict Seth Brundle's metamorphosis are stellar, often proving to be one of the film's core strengths.

Although the film is wildly different from its original source material, it still understands the core themes of the story, namely the consequences of meddling with nature, as well as the hubris of scientists that we've seen so many times in horror films just like this.

An absolute classic, but definitely not for the faint of heart.