David Cronenberg's The Fly - Life-Sized Animatronic Brundlefly Statue

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August 31, 2026

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This Halloween, be afraid, be very afraid! I'm kind of surprised that director David Cronenberg's (and producer Mel Brooks') body horror masterpiece The Fly doesn't get more love around Halloween. It's easily one of the most disturbing and disgusting sci-fi/horror movies ever made, but it's also a heartwarming romantic tearjerker at it's core, that is, if you can get past the graphic inside-out baboon (that's still alive), appendage and donut-dissolving fly puke, assorted body parts sloughing off in the worst ways imaginable, the most gruesome arm-wrestling match possibly ever filmed, unsettling names like Stathis Borans and Veronica, um, Quaife 🤔, a giant baby maggot being birthed, knowing that they also unsuccessfully teleported a cat and a baboon into a grotesque hybrid in a rightfully deleted scene (ahh! found it and more deleted scenes, enjoy), and, of course, Jeff Goldblum's character Seth Brundle's transformation from a brilliant scientist into a housefly, well, a Brundlefly.

Yep, if you've always wanted a statue of Jeff Goldblum in your home (or secret laboratory) that depicts him at his most devastating and tragic condition possible, then behold this cool new yet quite 1986-inspired Life-Sized The Fly Brundlefly Statue. This life-sized 6.5-ft-tall animatronic statue of the infamous hunched-over Brundlefly monster features a highly detailed molded head, body, and claws, motion-activated movement that triggers the head to sweep from side-to-side, the shoulder arm to twitch, the arms to swing back and forth, and terrifying sound effects to play, and, with an optional fog machine, it also spews out green LED-illuminated acid-like fly puke fog. Check out the video below to see it in action... if you dare!

What's even weirder about this movie is that the Brundlefly form wasn't even in its final stage of transforming into The Fly yet. It didn't even have its wings. It was just this insect-like creature growing beneath Seth's skin and bursting out. As a kid (and now), it was the stuff of nightmares, especially after Brundlefly tried teleporting again and accidentally merged at the molecular-genetic level with a giant chunk of the TelePod's metal door. I would love to see a better sequel, either where a housefly emerges from the TelePod and transforms into a tiny human, or they discover the TelePod computer in storage somewhere in the future, separate Brundle and the housefly's genetic code still stored inside to restore them back from the dead, and then go in a whole new direction mainly about modern TelePods. I think what I'm trying to say is that I love the technology and the interesting possibilities of the TelePods more than anything else in the movie.

Speaking of the glorious and downright creepy-looking TelePods, they should also consider making life-sized versions next year... and making them soundproof so you can go in there and have some privacy on a phone call. Hmm, I guess some people out there would actually want to merge with their phones at this point... Get David Cronenberg on the phone! I have a great body horror movie I want to pitch to him.