The Fly

When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.

Cronenberg's remake was immediately recognized as exceeding its source material — critics marveled at how a body-horror premise became a genuinely moving love story, with Goldblum's performance drawing particular attention. The main dissent, notably from the New York Times, was that the film's ambitions work against each other: the gore overwhelms the emotion, and the tonal shifts between horror, romance, and dark comedy never fully cohere. Its reputation has only grown since, appearing on best-of-the-decade lists and canonized as one of horror's landmark films.