What is The Fly/The Thing about?

Double Feature! 25th Anniversary! THE FLY, 1986, 20th Century Fox, 100 min. This new version of the 1958 sci-fi hit isn’t just a remake but a complete reimagining, with director David Cronenberg mixing in his own sensibilities about organic life and its startling mutability. Teletransporter inventor Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) inadvertently mixes his genes with a house fly’s when he decides to use himself as guinea pig. His future as a human being, including his romance with science writer Veronica (Geena Davis), changes forever as he begins a slow slide into a gooey half-man/half-insect. THE THING, 1982, Universal, 109 min. Director John Carpenter took the 1951 Howard Hawkes-produced sci-fi classic THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD and turned it into something darker, fiercer and altogether more disturbing, pitting sombrero-wearing helicopter pilot Kurt Russell and a crew of Arctic scientists against a ravenous, shape-shifting alien being.

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What is The Fly/The Thing about?: Double Feature! 25th Anniversary! THE FLY, 1986, 20th Century Fox, 100 min. This new version of the 1958 sci-fi hit isn’t just a remake but a complete reimagining, with director David Cronenberg mixing in his own sensibilities about organic life and its startling mutability. Teletransporter inventor Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) inadvertently mixes his genes with a house fly’s when he decides to use himself as guinea pig. His future as a human being, including his romance with science writer Veronica (Geena Davis), changes forever as he begins a slow slide into a gooey half-man/half-insect.

THE THING, 1982, Universal, 109 min. Director John Carpenter took the 1951 Howard Hawkes-produced sci-fi classic THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD and turned it into something darker, fiercer and altogether more disturbing, pitting sombrero-wearing helicopter pilot Kurt Russell and a crew of Arctic scientists against a ravenous, shape-shifting alien being.