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Where is this movie on DVD?
Where is this movie on DVD? Hopefully somebody at Universal will put this underrated movie on DVD!!Please do so I can retire my videotape!

Bill Paxton is terrorized by a vargant in his new house!
This movie has Bill Paxton as a man who man into a new house only to be terrorized by a vargant/homeless man.Paxton tries to get the police anybody to believe him.Eventually Paxton goes insane as he finally discovers who the vargant is! Also co-starring in this movie is Micheal Ironside(Starship Tropers,ER,Total Recall) as the cop looking Paxton's Vargant problems! It's a movie that will have you laugh, cry and other emotions as you either cheer on the vargant or Paxton! I enjoyed this movie and will watch it again soon! The movie is great as is the plot! Is there any genre Paxton cannot act in,I wonder! I know in this movie he did the job just with his character! Kudos to everyone that worked on this movie! If you want to see Bill Paxton go isane in one of his movie ,buy this movie! It's a winner in my book!

Groundbreaking musical score by Chris Young!
It's one of those bizarre dark horror comedies - and wait till you find out WHO the vagrant is... the terrific chamber score by Christopher Young (Hellraiser, Species, Urban Legend) is Philip Glass on a crack trip. A one in a million. ... Read more

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Chris Walas, the effects whiz who turned Jeff Goldblum into the gooey,grotesque Brundle-Fly in David Cronenberg's The Fly makes his directorialdebut in this equally icky sequel. Eric Stoltz is Brundle's genetically diseasedoffspring, a boy genius brought up in an experimental laboratory by a nefariousfoster father eager to see what his inevitable metamorphosis will bring. Nosurprise here: like father, like son. Daphne Zuniga is his sweet younggirlfriend, and John Getz reprises his role from the first film as a bitteralcoholic with a very bad fake beard. This cut-rate "Son of the Fly" knockoffpales next to Cronenberg's classic, degenerating into a gory revenge flick.Walas strains under a limited budget, and many of the more elaborate creatures(a monstrously mutated dog, the skeletal fly monster leaping about thewarehouse-like lab) are rather shabby. The makeup is suitably gooey, slatheredin ooze and pus, and the mayhem-filled finale is a nasty but impressiveover-the-top frenzy of blood and gore climaxing in the nastiest piece of poeticjustice since Freaks. The opening birth scene (with a look-alike subbingfor mom Geena Davis) is an homage to Larry Cohen's It's Alive. --SeanAxmaker ... Read more

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Like Father, Like Son
Set Brundle was a fly. Seth Brundle had a son. He is brilliant. He matures rather quickly. And he is probably gonna turn into a beastie like his old man.

After the small budget success of THE FLY, it was inevitable someone would cash in and make a sequel. The result is a quick bang for your buck hour and a half. This time around, CHRIS WALAS takes over directing chores. He did the original make-up designs for the first film. And so, unsurprisingly, this entry is filled with even more grotesque and sickening 'gooey' effects. But gooey is not always better. Eric Stoltz plays the five-year old offspring of Jeff Goldblum's BRUNDLEFLY and is given very little to work with in the formulaic screenplay. He does have one excellent scene as he prepares to immerse his body into a cocoon, so he can get 'Better'. Daphne Zanuga is the beautiful but useless girlfriend who, like Geena Davis before her is quite often running her hands over the wet, gooey, deformed skin of her fly-friend. And like it's sequel before it, we have another ridiculous performance by Gary Chalk as Scorby, the overzealous security guard. John Getz, the only performer returning from the predecessor, joins him in the ridiculous department. (Goldblum does show up in a brief video recording.) The film is often gross which was obviously the intention of the director. All in all, this film is an obvious story to get a quick buck. Come prepared. Bring a flyswatter.

Well worth buying just for the first one...
Cronenberg's masterful remake of "The Fly" is, simply put, one of the very best sci-fi movies in recent memory. Much like his "The Dead Zone," it mixes a character's terrifying journey with a powerful love story, and manages to do so successfully. Poor Seth Brundle's transformation is disturbing, suspenseful, and gory indeed, but Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis bring such conviction and sadness to their roles, your heart is pulled along for the ride. The metaphor of watching someone you love succumb to a disease which changes them utterly, is just as shocking as the mutations Brundle's body undergoes. Enough said. This is a great and powerful, albeit sad, movie experience.
"The Fly 2" is far less successful. It's always good to see Eric Stoltz, who is a strong actor with lots of appeal, and although his career has proven that he's not exactly leading man material, he comes close to pulling it off here. But the movie takes the formula from the first movie and screws it up: the gore is heaped on while the love story takes a back seat to it. Daphne Zuniga and Stoltz just don't generate the kind of chemistry and compassion that Goldblum and Davis did. Instead, the movie is basically an F/X vehicle. Once the two pretty young people hit the sack, it's pretty much downhill into head-smashing, face-peeling splatter movie territory. Too bad.
But Cronenberg's movie will live on forever; this two-movie disc is well worth the price for anyone interested in a frightening, suspense-filled human drama which doubles as a pretty darn cool horror show, even if its sequel is vastly inferior.

The Legacy Lives On...
I'm addicted to these movies. I didn't know what to expect, seeing as I had only seen the original with Vincent Price. This is definitely now one of my favorite movies of all time. The first one features Jeff Goldblum who fuses with a fly and starts to mutate into a 185-pound walking fly. The gross effects in this movie is definitely not some for the weak-stomached.

The sequel was just as good as the first one. The ending is a classic example of "what goes around comes around." In this movie, Brundle's son has a chromosome disorder which makes him age at a faster rate. When he reaches adulthood, he starts to mutate into the fly, for he inherited the genes from his father. He then hatches out of a cacoon and starts reeking revenge on Bartok Industries. I liked it. The Fly [is action packed] in this movie.

These movies are must-see-material. Beware...it's not for the weak-stomached...

Symphonic horror!!
This score by Chris Young was written almost simultaneously with his score to Hellbound: Hellraiser II. This can be heard easily; they are both sweeping symphonic horror scores, performed by a full orchestra. No holds barred on these two!!

There are some atonal and nasty sounding tracks as well as some soothing quieter ones. Hellbound had the same characteristics.

If you are a Christopher Young fan and you love Hellbound, then this is the perfect companion score.
If you are more into his not-so-dark action scores like Hard Rain (The Flood) or more into his gentle and sentimental scores like Murder in the First, I don't think you'll like this.

Mind you, this score is not so creepy and atonal as The Dark Half or A Nightmare on Elmstreet 2, but melodic and beautifully melodramatic, with contemplative tracks as well as a full-blown orchestral finale. Again a parallel with Hellbound.

In my humble opinion this lesser known Chris Young score belongs to his top three soundtracks!!!
No thanks to the not so good motion picture it came with.

Have you ever heard of Insect Politics?
The Fly must have been one of the single greatest films of the 1980's because it left us with quotes, parodies, and astounding visuals that would change special FX in moviemaking forever. Besides the makeup effects, It had terrific acting especially from Jeff Goldblum whose performance as Seth Brundle sparked my interest in theater. People ask me when i'm interviewd "What got you into acting and production?" my usual response is "The Fly". Sometimes I say Jeff Goldblum but this is the one that made me realize I had to become an actor. The humanism is astonishing in the screenplay by Charles Edward Pogue whom I would hire to write for a project any day. It takes a modern turn from the 1958 version in which the teleportation booths are now Telepods. The names and locations have been changed. The forging of the characters is also different and there is a better conflict between Seth and Stathis Borans. Seth and reporter Veronica meet at the Bartok industries party where new inventions for that year are being unveiled. The first shot of the film besides that terrific title sequence with the cell like colors and the beautiful main title begins with a shot of Seth saying "What am I working on? Uh I'm working on something that will change the world and human life as we know it." Then we cut to Veronica asking if it will change it a lot or just a bit. They then go back to Seth's lab for a demonstration with her stocking as the subject of teleportation. She is clearly astonished and starts to get quotes when he gets excited and says she can't write a story. Luckily for him, her boss doesn't buy it. Seth then propositions for her to live with him and record his process. They fall in love and make love like 3 times in which once after merging with the fly he gets her pregnant leading up to part 2. One night she leaves to confront Stathis for printing a story after he said he wouldn't and Seth assumes that she's running out on him and gets drunk. He feels that the pod's imperfections are worked out and decides to use the ultimate subject- himself. But a stowaway fly wants to join in on it too and the computer (one of my favorite pieces of the system) splices their DNA patterns together and soon Seth finds he is turning into a freakish, irritable 185 pound fly with one ill temper and dangerous enzymes that can melt through anything. So he directs his anger to Stathis who suggests an abortion and the murder of Brundle. But the newly formed Brundlefly won't go down without a fight. He sets out to find a cure for himself even if it takes killing Borans and sacrificing the life of his one true love to do it. This film struck me hard when i viewed it on the sci fi channel for the first time. I loved it. I loved the telepod system especially because of the construction of the computer, pods, prototype pod 3, and the backup generator (you see that in the background sometimes). I loved the computer's visuals on the screen and i wish more computers were made that way. But most of all I loved the stages of the brundlefly transformation. There needs to be a seperate dvd of this film with lots of bonus features, photos and the infamous deleted monkeycat/leg amputation scene. If i'm not mistaken, there is an online petition fot the special edition dvd release. That was the first film on the disk. Lets move on to the inferior sequel. The Fly 2 was pretty good to be so low budget and low in plot. Martin played by Eric Stoltz is pretty good for a kid raised to speak properly and in scientific terminology. He turns into a bigger, meaner, faster and more fake looking fly than his dad. He undergoes a catterpillar to butterfly like transformation but when he merges, he comes to get revenge on those who lied to him for so long with deadly results. I liked it pretty good. It had dramatic music and sequences and i liked the "I'll show you a magic trick you'll never forget." line. The idea of a bulletproof, acid shooting monster roaming around killing everything in an unescapeable complex is great. And he actually finds the cure. There were some pretty unbelieveable parts. Such as injecting water into the blood stream (...) I grew up with them. They got me to where I am today. I owe it all to a small stowaway fly. ... Read more

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Like Father, Like Son
Set Brundle was a fly. Seth Brundle had a son. He is brilliant. He matures rather quickly. And he is probably gonna turn into a beastie like his old man.

After the small budget success of THE FLY, it was inevitable someone would cash in and make a sequel. The result is a quick bang for your buck hour and a half. This time around, CHRIS WALAS takes over directing chores. He did the original make-up designs for the first film. And so, unsurprisingly, this entry is filled with even more grotesque and sickening 'gooey' effects. But gooey is not always better. Eric Stoltz plays the five-year old offspring of Jeff Goldblum's BRUNDLEFLY and is given very little to work with in the formulaic screenplay. He does have one excellent scene as he prepares to immerse his body into a cocoon, so he can get 'Better'. Daphne Zanuga is the beautiful but useless girlfriend who, like Geena Davis before her is quite often running her hands over the wet, gooey, deformed skin of her fly-friend. And like it's sequel before it, we have another ridiculous performance by Gary Chalk as Scorby, the overzealous security guard. John Getz, the only performer returning from the predecessor, joins him in the ridiculous department. (Goldblum does show up in a brief video recording.) The film is often gross which was obviously the intention of the director. All in all, this film is an obvious story to get a quick buck. Come prepared. Bring a flyswatter.

Well worth buying just for the first one...
Cronenberg's masterful remake of "The Fly" is, simply put, one of the very best sci-fi movies in recent memory. Much like his "The Dead Zone," it mixes a character's terrifying journey with a powerful love story, and manages to do so successfully. Poor Seth Brundle's transformation is disturbing, suspenseful, and gory indeed, but Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis bring such conviction and sadness to their roles, your heart is pulled along for the ride. The metaphor of watching someone you love succumb to a disease which changes them utterly, is just as shocking as the mutations Brundle's body undergoes. Enough said. This is a great and powerful, albeit sad, movie experience.
"The Fly 2" is far less successful. It's always good to see Eric Stoltz, who is a strong actor with lots of appeal, and although his career has proven that he's not exactly leading man material, he comes close to pulling it off here. But the movie takes the formula from the first movie and screws it up: the gore is heaped on while the love story takes a back seat to it. Daphne Zuniga and Stoltz just don't generate the kind of chemistry and compassion that Goldblum and Davis did. Instead, the movie is basically an F/X vehicle. Once the two pretty young people hit the sack, it's pretty much downhill into head-smashing, face-peeling splatter movie territory. Too bad.
But Cronenberg's movie will live on forever; this two-movie disc is well worth the price for anyone interested in a frightening, suspense-filled human drama which doubles as a pretty darn cool horror show, even if its sequel is vastly inferior.

The Legacy Lives On...
I'm addicted to these movies. I didn't know what to expect, seeing as I had only seen the original with Vincent Price. This is definitely now one of my favorite movies of all time. The first one features Jeff Goldblum who fuses with a fly and starts to mutate into a 185-pound walking fly. The gross effects in this movie is definitely not some for the weak-stomached.

The sequel was just as good as the first one. The ending is a classic example of "what goes around comes around." In this movie, Brundle's son has a chromosome disorder which makes him age at a faster rate. When he reaches adulthood, he starts to mutate into the fly, for he inherited the genes from his father. He then hatches out of a cacoon and starts reeking revenge on Bartok Industries. I liked it. The Fly [is action packed] in this movie.

These movies are must-see-material. Beware...it's not for the weak-stomached...

Symphonic horror!!
This score by Chris Young was written almost simultaneously with his score to Hellbound: Hellraiser II. This can be heard easily; they are both sweeping symphonic horror scores, performed by a full orchestra. No holds barred on these two!!

There are some atonal and nasty sounding tracks as well as some soothing quieter ones. Hellbound had the same characteristics.

If you are a Christopher Young fan and you love Hellbound, then this is the perfect companion score.
If you are more into his not-so-dark action scores like Hard Rain (The Flood) or more into his gentle and sentimental scores like Murder in the First, I don't think you'll like this.

Mind you, this score is not so creepy and atonal as The Dark Half or A Nightmare on Elmstreet 2, but melodic and beautifully melodramatic, with contemplative tracks as well as a full-blown orchestral finale. Again a parallel with Hellbound.

In my humble opinion this lesser known Chris Young score belongs to his top three soundtracks!!!
No thanks to the not so good motion picture it came with.

Have you ever heard of Insect Politics?
The Fly must have been one of the single greatest films of the 1980's because it left us with quotes, parodies, and astounding visuals that would change special FX in moviemaking forever. Besides the makeup effects, It had terrific acting especially from Jeff Goldblum whose performance as Seth Brundle sparked my interest in theater. People ask me when i'm interviewd "What got you into acting and production?" my usual response is "The Fly". Sometimes I say Jeff Goldblum but this is the one that made me realize I had to become an actor. The humanism is astonishing in the screenplay by Charles Edward Pogue whom I would hire to write for a project any day. It takes a modern turn from the 1958 version in which the teleportation booths are now Telepods. The names and locations have been changed. The forging of the characters is also different and there is a better conflict between Seth and Stathis Borans. Seth and reporter Veronica meet at the Bartok industries party where new inventions for that year are being unveiled. The first shot of the film besides that terrific title sequence with the cell like colors and the beautiful main title begins with a shot of Seth saying "What am I working on? Uh I'm working on something that will change the world and human life as we know it." Then we cut to Veronica asking if it will change it a lot or just a bit. They then go back to Seth's lab for a demonstration with her stocking as the subject of teleportation. She is clearly astonished and starts to get quotes when he gets excited and says she can't write a story. Luckily for him, her boss doesn't buy it. Seth then propositions for her to live with him and record his process. They fall in love and make love like 3 times in which once after merging with the fly he gets her pregnant leading up to part 2. One night she leaves to confront Stathis for printing a story after he said he wouldn't and Seth assumes that she's running out on him and gets drunk. He feels that the pod's imperfections are worked out and decides to use the ultimate subject- himself. But a stowaway fly wants to join in on it too and the computer (one of my favorite pieces of the system) splices their DNA patterns together and soon Seth finds he is turning into a freakish, irritable 185 pound fly with one ill temper and dangerous enzymes that can melt through anything. So he directs his anger to Stathis who suggests an abortion and the murder of Brundle. But the newly formed Brundlefly won't go down without a fight. He sets out to find a cure for himself even if it takes killing Borans and sacrificing the life of his one true love to do it. This film struck me hard when i viewed it on the sci fi channel for the first time. I loved it. I loved the telepod system especially because of the construction of the computer, pods, prototype pod 3, and the backup generator (you see that in the background sometimes). I loved the computer's visuals on the screen and i wish more computers were made that way. But most of all I loved the stages of the brundlefly transformation. There needs to be a seperate dvd of this film with lots of bonus features, photos and the infamous deleted monkeycat/leg amputation scene. If i'm not mistaken, there is an online petition fot the special edition dvd release. That was the first film on the disk. Lets move on to the inferior sequel. The Fly 2 was pretty good to be so low budget and low in plot. Martin played by Eric Stoltz is pretty good for a kid raised to speak properly and in scientific terminology. He turns into a bigger, meaner, faster and more fake looking fly than his dad. He undergoes a catterpillar to butterfly like transformation but when he merges, he comes to get revenge on those who lied to him for so long with deadly results. I liked it pretty good. It had dramatic music and sequences and i liked the "I'll show you a magic trick you'll never forget." line. The idea of a bulletproof, acid shooting monster roaming around killing everything in an unescapeable complex is great. And he actually finds the cure. There were some pretty unbelieveable parts. Such as injecting water into the blood stream (...) I grew up with them. They got me to where I am today. I owe it all to a small stowaway fly. ... Read more