The Most Terrifying Creature Feature Ever Made Officially Hits Streaming
David Cronenberg’s 1986 science-fiction horror film *The Fly*, starring Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis, began streaming on Peacock on 1 October. Its arrival is part of the service’s Halloween-season horror offerings, bringing a widely praised body-horror film to streaming.
Goldblum plays scientist Seth Brundle, whose teleportation experiment fuses him with a fly and triggers a disturbing physical transformation. The film holds a 93% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes, won an Academy Award for its make-up, and reportedly earned about $60 million worldwide on a $15 million budget.
- *The Fly* began streaming on Peacock on 1 October.
- Jeff Goldblum stars as a scientist transformed by a teleportation accident.
- The film earned about $60 million worldwide on a $15 million budget.
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The Fly is a 1986 science-fiction horror film directed by David Cronenberg. Jeff Goldblum plays Seth Brundle, a scientist whose experiment with teleportation goes wrong when a fly becomes mixed up in the process.
The story follows Brundle’s physical transformation and its effects on his relationship with journalist Veronica Quaife, played by Geena Davis. The film is known for its make-up effects, which won an Academy Award, and for bringing horror into the story of scientific ambition and its consequences.