9 Sci-Fi Horror Movies That Went Too Far

Often leaning firmly into the realm of body horror, the iconic David Cronenberg famously has The Brood, Shivers, Rabid, Videodrome and Crash on his CV, in addition to other impressive offerings like A History of Violence and Eastern Promises.

On the body horror front, it's 1986's The Fly that stands out to many as being Cronenberg's finest hour - as reflected by its status as his most commercially successful and critically acclaimed movie (as per Rotten Tomatoes).

Based loosely on George Langelaan's 1957 short story and Kurt Neumann's 1958 film of the same name, Cronenberg's The Fly was revolutionary at the time of its release. With Jeff Goldblum's Seth Brundle unwittingly turning himself into a human-fly creature, this '86 effort stunned with its effects work from Chris Walas and Stephan Dupuis.

Of course, that "stunned" was often in the most grotesque of ways, with Brundle's transformation being increasingly disgusting as the picture unravels.

Where The Fly goes too far, though, is Goldbum's Brundlefly breaking down his food by vomiting on it. Speaking very much from experience - your writer having maybe watched The Fly at too young an age - the image of Brundle spewing up milky vomit really is the stuff of nightmares.