History NightmareFuel / TheFly1986

** The end result had been demonstrated earlier in a deleted scene. when Seth tests the alpha version of the MergingMachine program on a cat and a baboon. What comes out is something straight out of Film/TheThing1982. It attacks Seth, and he proceeds to beat it to death with a lead pipe. The sheer brutality of the scene was so great audiences ceased to think of Seth Brundle as a ''tragic'' monster, and it was cut. The icing on that BodyHorror cake? The computer rendering of the living wreckage it made of the baboon and the cat, ''after'' Seth had destroyed the Monkey-Cat-Thing.

** The end result had been demonstrated earlier in a deleted scene. when Seth tests the alpha version of the MergingMachine program on a cat and a baboon. What comes out is something straight out of Film/TheThing1982. It attacks Seth, and he proceeds to beat it to death with a lead pipe. The sheer brutality of the scene was so great audiences ceased to think of Seth Brundle as a ''tragic'' monster, and it was cut. The icing on that BodyHorror cake? The computer rendering of the living wreckage it made of the baboon and the cat.

* The deleted "Monkey-Cat" scene. An early attempt at turning the telepod into a MergingMachine, which fuses the surviving baboon and a cat into a horrible, agonizing mess that Seth ends up beating to death with a lead pipe after it attacks him.

--> '''Veronica''': I'm pregnant.
--> '''Stathis''': [[SarcasmMode Oh, no]]. (''realization dawns'') ''[[OhCrap Oh, no]]''.
--> '''Veronica''': [[WhamLine I'm pregnant with Seth's baby.]]

--> '''Veronica''': "I'm pregnant."
--> '''Stathis''': "[[SarcasmMode Oh, no]]." (realization dawns) "''[[OhCrap Oh, no]]''."
--> '''Veronica''': "[[WhamLine I'm pregnant with Seth's baby.]]."

* Stathis' completely horrified reaction to the video of Seth eating. Thankfully, we don't actually see Seth reabsorbing the melted food.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''''It only [[FromBadToWorse gets worse]] from here.'']]

Be afraid. ''Be very afraid.'' Considering the fact that ''Film/TheFly1986'' is '''made''' of BodyHorror, be very afraid indeed...

'''As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked. You have been warned.'''

** Moreover, Seth has been DrunkWithPower and casually seductive in the preceding scenes, but as he arm-wrestles Marky, his face--and especially his eyes--takes on a strange, cold intensity that it never had before. After he wins the match so gruesomely, he seems slightly dazed and groggy as he and Tawny walk down the sidewalk and discuss what they'll do next, as if he were coming to from ''something else'' controlling his mind. In hindsight, the match is the first sign of the SplitPersonalityTakeover that ultimately will consume his human reason and compassion.

** Just Veronica's paranoia that she might be carrying a mutant. Right after she sees Seth looking even worse than before after trying and failing to tell him about her pregnancy, she's frantically begging Stathis to take her to an abortion clinic, to the point where she tells him, "'Cause I don't want it in my body! Do you understand me?! ''I don't want it in my body!''" when he asks her why. Things take a turn for the worse when we cut up to the roof to discover that Seth overheard the whole conversation about the abortion, before he steps away from the roof to follow Veronica and Stathis to the clinic.

* Brundlefly ends up merged with ''the components of the telepod''. A big chunk of it is left protruding out of his back, his flesh warped around the machinery, and all he can do to move around is crawl and make ungodly wheezes. It's not hard to see how much pain he's in, especially when he places the barrel of the shotgun to his head.

[[caption-width-right:350:''Be afraid. Be VERY afraid.'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:''It only [[FromBadToWorse gets worse]] from here.'']]

* The baboon experiment scene. The telepod knows how to transport living tissues intact, but ''not the order they go in'', which [[TeleFrag Tele-Frags]] the baboon, turning it inside out. ''And it's still alive when it gets there''.

* The night after Seth teleported himself and slept with Veronica, he wakes up, gets out of his bed,...and starts doing all kinds of acrobatics and gymnastics all over his apartment. There's this atmospheric eeriness to that whole scene as Seth's sudden display of newfound SuperStrength is one of the first clues he CameBackWrong. Veronica witnesses this in utter amazement and begins to realize Seth may no longer be the quirky scientist she met at the press event.

* Stathis' horrendous stalking habits, while {{played for laughs}} in [[TheEighties the 1980s]], get really awful when you think about them. You have a man breaking into a woman's apartment, following her around without her knowledge, and going into furious, jealous ranting after finding out she's moved on and found another man. [[SocietyMarchesOn In today's society,]] [[ValuesDissonance that's incredibly creepy.]]

* Veronica's maggot baby nightmare, especially since it's not framed as a dream until she wakes up. It's often cited by viewers as ''the'' most frightening scene of the movie, and is the one that made the ''Series/OneHundredScariestMovieMoments'' list.

** On top of that, there's how Seth explains all this, down to those FamousLastWords. There's '''hope''' in his voice. He's trying to assure her ''it's going to be okay'', even wonderful. His dorky, passionate, and loving nature was why Veronica came to love him, but his transformation has twisted him into someone about to do something so evil that only LaserGuidedKarma can strike him down.

** The computer revealing to Seth that it fused him the fly at the '''molecular-genetic level''' during the teleportation and Seth's more than appropriate horrified reaction.

** The computer revealing to Seth that it fused the fly at the '''molecular-genetic level''' during the teleportation and Seth's more than appropriate horrified reaction.

** The moment just before the pod finished merging Brundlefly with pieces of the booth: the encoding sequence frantically flashes computational alphanumeric values all over the monitor indicating it can't make heads or tails fusing a complex life-form and inorganic metal. As if your imagination wasn't already flaring up when the transmission field takes Brundlefly and parts of the pod.

** The moment just before the pod finished merging Brundlefly with pieces of the booth: the encoding sequence frantically flashes computational alphanumeric values all over the monitor indicating it can't make heads or tails with merging a complex life-form and chunks of inorganic metal. As if your imagination wasn't already flaring up when the transmission field takes Brundlefly and parts of the pod.