The Fly II (Collector's Edition) (Bilingual)
Chris Walas, the effects whiz who turned Jeff Goldblum into the gooey, grotesque Brundle-Fly in David Cronenberg's The Fly makes his directorial debut in this equally icky sequel. Eric Stoltz is Brundle's genetically diseased offspring, a boy genius brought up in an experimental laboratory by a nefarious foster father eager to see what his inevitable metamorphosis will bring. No surprise here: like father, like son. Daphne Zuniga is his sweet young girlfriend, and John Getz reprises his role from the first film as a bitter alcoholic with a very bad fake beard. This cut-rate "Son of the Fly" knockoff pales 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 the warehouse-like lab) are rather shabby. The makeup is suitably gooey, slathered in ooze and pus, and the mayhem-filled finale is a nasty but impressive over-the-top frenzy of blood and gore climaxing in the nastiest piece of poetic justice since Freaks. The opening birth scene (with a look-alike subbing for mom Geena Davis) is an homage to Larry Cohen's It's Alive. --Sean Axmaker Binding DVD. Artist(s): DVD. Publisher(s): 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Format: NTSC.
| Manufacturer: | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |
| Part Number: | 2230252 |
| Lowest Price (CAD): | $14.36 |
Product Features |
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| Brand : | Fox Video |
| Closed Captioned : | No |
| Collector's Edition : | Yes |
| Director's Cut : | No |
| Distributor : | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |
| Film Rating : | R (Restricted) |
| Format : | DVD |
| Language : | English |
| Movie Aspect Ratio : | Widescreen |
| Number of Discs : | One |
| Release Date : | Oct 2005 |
| Title : | Title F-I |
| Unedited Version : | No |
