# La mosca (1986)

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**Original title**: *The Fly*
**Runtime**: 96 min
**Genres**: Horror, Science Fiction
**Directed by**: David Cronenberg
**Written by**: David Cronenberg, Charles Edward Pogue
**Starring**: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel, Leslie Carlson, George Chuvalo

> *Be afraid. Be very afraid.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Telepod’s amber glow. Late-autumn dusk through lab windows.

Milky glass doors hiss shut on a man and his future. A housefly beats against plastic as the machine swallows them whole.

Cronenberg fuses body horror with old-sci-fi pulp.

**Mood tags**: body-horror, dread, gut-punch

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 7.6/10 (221270 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 81/100

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