David Cronenberg, a famous Canadian director known for his horror and science fiction films, directed The Fly (1986). Cronenberg’s The Fly is actually a remake of the classic 1950s sci-fi film, The Fly (1958), directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Vincent Price. Both films are based on writer George Langelaan’s short story, first appearing “in the June 1957 issue of Playboy magazine. The (original) tale concerns a scientist, Andre Delambre, investigating the subject of matter transportation; after successfully experimenting with animate objects and small creatures, he transports himself from one pod in his lab to another“ (Haley 167). Yet, disaster occurs as he fails to notice a common housefly has entered the pod with him, and upon reintegration, Delambre is horribly (and genetically) mixed with the fly’s body. This is basically the same premise of Cronenberg’s 1986 version of The Fly, although updated, …show more content…
He learns that Quaife is pregnant with his child and he wants her to have the baby, but she is afraid it could be a mutation like Brundle. Secretly, with Borans’ help, she visits an abortion doctor. Except, “Brundlefly” (human-fly hybrid monster) kidnaps her before she can have an abortion, and brings her back to his lab. Borans follows and battles Brundlefly, but he is beaten down by corrosive vomit. Convinced he can reverse his mutation by merging himself with her body in the teleportation machine, he traps her in one of the telepods, and he enters into another. Borans uses a shotgun to damage Quaife’s telepod, freeing her, and Brundlefly is gruesomely reanimated with steel from his telepod. The once brilliant scientist Seth Brundle, now as Brundlefly fused with cables and steel ripping throughout his flesh, begs Veronica Quaife to shoot him with the shotgun. In tears, she ends the monster’s suffering with a single shot to the