What horror film did I watch?
March 21, 2015 8:00 AM Subscribe
I just rewatched Cronenberg's The Fly. I saw it for the first time when I was a teenager, sometime in the early nineties. There are scenes in the movie that are etched into my memory, which I can vividly remember to this day.
Except, having just rewatched the movie, those scenes aren't there.
First supposedly remembered scene: a dog is put through the teleportation machine, it becomes mutated, and the main character keeps it as a pet, as a terrible reminder of his own failure. The dog is still a grotesque mutant, but the main character pets it and takes care of it. I thought this was in The Fly, but no.
And the second scene that I thought was in The Fly: that the final monster, as it were, was not even shown until the very end of the movie, and when it was, it was literally an insect, descending from the ceiling, completely unlike humans. In a kind of slow motion, alien-esque scene. This also does not happen in The Fly, where you see the entire transformation.
Did I just completely falsify my memories, or is there another horror movie from the same era and I just misremembered?
First supposedly remembered scene: a dog is put through the teleportation machine, it becomes mutated, and the main character keeps it as a pet, as a terrible reminder of his own failure. The dog is still a grotesque mutant, but the main character pets it and takes care of it. I thought this was in The Fly, but no.
And the second scene that I thought was in The Fly: that the final monster, as it were, was not even shown until the very end of the movie, and when it was, it was literally an insect, descending from the ceiling, completely unlike humans. In a kind of slow motion, alien-esque scene. This also does not happen in The Fly, where you see the entire transformation.
Did I just completely falsify my memories, or is there another horror movie from the same era and I just misremembered?
These scenes are definitely not in the Cronenberg.
posted by mochapickle at 8:12 AM on March 21, 2015
posted by mochapickle at 8:12 AM on March 21, 2015
Definitely The Fly II. The protagonist was the grown son of the two characters from the fly, and he was conceived after Brundle's (Goldblum's) teleporter accident, so his DNA was tainted with that of the Fly; his motivation in continuing his father's experiments was that he might be able to remove his Fly DNA.
posted by Sunburnt at 8:34 AM on March 21, 2015
posted by Sunburnt at 8:34 AM on March 21, 2015
Best answer: The dog is definitely The Fly II. I don't remember the final scene, but I don't think there was a gradual transformation as in the original, so that's plausible.
posted by rodlymight at 8:35 AM on March 21, 2015
posted by rodlymight at 8:35 AM on March 21, 2015
Response by poster: Allright and awesome, it seems like it was Fly II then. I didn't even know there was a Fly II, and I stupidly didn't even google it.
posted by Pyrogenesis at 9:09 AM on March 21, 2015
posted by Pyrogenesis at 9:09 AM on March 21, 2015
« Older British Accent Question: "ow" sounds like "I"? | To realtor or not to realtor, that is the question... Newer »
This thread is closed to new comments.
posted by Mothlight at 8:04 AM on March 21, 2015 [3 favorites]