David Cronenberg directs this meditation on obsession and power, creating a pitch perfect mad scientist story.
When an experiment goes horrifically wrong, scientist Seth Brundle begins to go through a few changes that threaten to overtake his humanity. Cronenberg handles Brundle's transformation into a giant fly masterfully, utilizing creature effects that still make audiences sick to their stomachs twenty years later. This film is truly one of the better examples of the modern monster movie. And Geena Davis births a giant maggot.
