The Fly: 8 Reasons Why Cronenberg's Body Horror Is The Best Remake Of All Time

For all of its poignancy and depth, The Fly works equally well as a shocking gore fest when taken at face value. This is body horror at its finest and it's responsible for giving a generation of cinema-going hypochondriacs nightmares that have lasted a lifetime.

There's a palpable sense of creeping horror as Seth starts to transform and a cast-iron stomach will serve you well during the grislier stages of his metamorphosis.

The bathroom nail-pulling scene and the sequence where Brundlefly weaponises his vomit drop against one-time love rival Stathis Borans (John Getz) are nothing short of revolting, and the maggot baby nightmare scarred us for life.

The Fly is filled with powerfully disgusting imagery, but perhaps the most haunting aspect of the film is the thought of what would have emerged from the telepods had a crazed Brundlefly succeeded in forcing Ronnie to partake in his 'cure', which involved using the pods to water down his insect genes with human DNA from a donor.

Fan have long speculated about what would have happened had Stathis not intervened, and if you want this writer's take, the infamous Monkey-Cat deleted scene is a hint at the hideous spectacle we may have been subjected to.