The Fly (1986)

It´s a remake of the 1958 film "The Fly", but retains only the idea of a scientist merging with a housefly during a teleportation experiment. Seth Brunble is an accentric researcher who creates a  project that will change the world: a set of "Telepods" that allows instantaneous teleportation of an object from one pod to another.

To prove the efectiveness of his project, Brundle teleports himself, unaware that a common housefly is in the pod with him. Brundle emerges from the receiving pod, seemingly normal. However, he soon becomes violent, and eventually realizes that something went horribly wrong when his fingernails begin falling off. Brundle checks his computer's records, and discovers that the Telepod computer, confused by the presence of two separate life-forms in the sending pod, merged him with the fly at the molecular-genetic level. Over the next few weeks, Brundle continues to deteriorate, losing various body parts and becoming progressively less human in appearance. He theorizes that he is slowly becoming a hybrid creature that is neither human nor insect .



Trivia

• There were plenty of scenes which were filmed but cut from the final release. For example, a scene were Brundle sends a cat and a baboon through the telepods. This results in a hybrid creature Brundle beats to death with a pipe.
• It took almost five hours to apply the makup to the actor Jef Goldblum
• The original director was suposed to be Tim Burton
• The line:  "I'm saying I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it, but now that dream is over and the insect is awake," is a reference to Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis"
• "The Fly" was the first theatrical film to have its broadcast premiere on the Fox television network
• Two pupeteers were located underneath the floor for the cat-baboon scene and a third one pumped blood. The rest of the crew would sometimes have a break for lunch, forgeting about the three underneath the floor.
• There were at least 20 versions of the "space bug" (Brundle's final mutated form)
• The fly's vomit was made from honey, milk and eggs