Name: Nightmares at the Neville Night 3: The Fly (1986)
Start: 2025-10-28T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-28T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 210 Museum Pl, Green Bay, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54303

Nightmares at the Neville Night 3: The Fly (1986)

The Neville Public Museum is proud to bring UW-GB professor Zack Kruse back to the museum for its second season of the horror film series “Nightmares at the Neville.” Nightmares at the Neville showcases three classic horror films with discussions led by Kruse, who is a scholar of comics, film, and American literature.
General Admission $7
Member Admission $5
Student Admission $3
Popcorn and soda will be available for purchase prior to each film’s showing.
Theatre doors open at 5:30pm.

The Fly (dir. David Cronenberg, USA/Canada, 96 min.)
The Fly (1986) is a science fiction body horror film directed and co-written by David Cronenberg, produced by Brooksfilms, and released by 20th Century Fox. Starring Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, and John Getz, it loosely adapts George Langelaan’s 1957 short story and the 1958 film. The plot follows a brilliant but eccentric scientist whose experiment goes disastrously wrong, causing him to transform into a human-fly hybrid. With a score by Howard Shore and groundbreaking makeup effects by Chris Walas and Stephan Dupuis, the film earned critical acclaim after its release. It grossed $60.6 million worldwide and won the Academy Award for Best Makeup. Its chilling tagline, “Be afraid. Be very afraid,” later became a lasting pop culture reference.
Warning: This film contains intense, graphic makeup effects and unsettling body horror that may be disturbing to some viewers.

More About Zack Kruse
Zack Kruse is the author of the Eisner-nominated "Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity" (University of Mississippi Press, 2021), recognized as one of the best books on comics in 2021 by "The Comics Journal." He is a scholar of comics, film, and American literature, publishing broadly in each of these areas. As a comics creator, his strip, "Mystery Solved!," appeared in "Skeptical Inquirer Magazine." He was the founder and sole operator of the Appleseed Comics and Art Convention in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and he is the former marketing director for the largest comics retailer in the U.S. His voice can be heard on numerous comics and academic podcasts, as well as his weekly music program, "The Mutant Graveyard." He is currently working on multiple film, comics, and academic projects. He never sleeps. He says he will never die.