10 More Sci-Fi Horror Movie Fates Worse Than Death

There's a reason that Rick and Morty dubbed humans transformed into hideously deformed monstrosities as "Cronenbergs".

This tongue in cheek tribute to director David Cronenberg, is even more appropriate when one considers the fate of Jeff Goldblum's Seth Brundle in 1986's The Fly. Goldblum plays an eccentric scientist experimenting with the concept of teleportation, who accidentally becomes genetically amalgamated with a fly after it enters his "teleportation pod" with him.

Brundle slowly transforms into the most repulsive of creatures as he steadily loses his grip on reality. The bristly hairs and the wince worthy sores are horrifying enough, but viewers legitimately have to resist the urge to barf when Goldblum reveals his eating habits. Like a fly, the scientist now vomits a vile white liquid onto his food, pre-digesting it before he swallows it. Rather unsurprisingly, Brundle barely even resembles a human being by the film's end.

Already living a fate far worse than death, Brundle's final agonizing piece of destiny comes around in The Fly's climactic sequence. Attempting to fuse himself with his pregnant girlfriend in order to become the most twisted "family" ever conceived, the process goes disastrously wrong. Brundle melds himself with the teleportation pod instead, resulting in a monstrously deformed insect-humanoid horrendously fused with scientific equipment.

Goldblum's repulsive creature is left silently pleading for death in unspeakable agony. It speaks volumes that a shotgun blast to the head was a more appealing option than his current predicament.