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This time no Friday the 13th, but still an ideal evening to come and watch two spine-chilling body horror cult classics full of crazy practical effects!In David Cronenberg's THE FLY (a remake of the 1950s sci-fi classic of the same name), we meet the brilliant, eccentric Professor Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum). When he develops a machine that seems to make teleportation possible, he decides to test it himself. Without realising it, a fly gets into the machine, causing the DNA of the two to become one. Gradually, his girlfriend Veronica (Geena Davis) has to watch him turn into a monster.
Cronenberg's fascination with the relationship between body and technology, the mixing of the human with the non-human, all come together perfectly in this film full of gruesome practical effects that are as timeless now as they were 40 years ago!
SOCIETY is also packed with amazing special effects and body horror, but is a little more difficult to describe without revealing certain elements of the story. Bill Whitney is the son of a wealthy Beverly Hills family. All his life, he has felt excluded by his parents, who seem to favour his sister. He struggles with paranoid feelings in his environment: his friends, his family... Nightmares keep him awake. After hearing strange, gruesome sounds on a cassette tape, Bill becomes convinced that his fears may be based on reality after all.
Suffice it to say that the duo of director Brian Yuzna and make-up artist Screaming Mad George are every bit as good as Cronenberg in THE FLY. To avoid spoilers, we recommend not looking up anything about the film. Don't even watch the trailer below, just come and see for yourself!
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