Brutal ‘monkey-cat’ deleted scene from The Fly too horrific for audiences to handle

There’s no denying it, David Cronenberg’s 1986 remake of The Fly is one of the finest pieces of horror cinema to grace the big screen.

The film is packed full of stomach-churning, bone-crunching and skin-melting special effects, which didn’t shy away from showing all manner of brutalities up close and bloody. Brilliant but eccentric scientist Seth Brundle invents a set of pods, capable of teleporting instantaneously. While they work well for inanimate objects, they mutilate living tissue, as demonstrated in one graphic scene when a baboon is turned inside out.

Seth then reprograms the devices to understand organic matter, and successfully transports a second baboon.

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However, when he makes himself the first human to test his equipment out, he inadvertently moves himself across with a fly and a chilling metamorphosis occurs.

While at first experiencing benefits from the combining of bodies, including increased strength and stamina, it’s only a matter of time before things take a turn for the worse.

Dr Brundle’s decline is marked out with a change in personality and a full body transformation, the make-up for which won the movie an Oscar.

But while it doesn’t hold back on showing grotesque body changes, the core of the story is about the tragic decline of Seth Brundle’s physical and mental state.

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The plot serves as a character drama alongside body horror, which was designed to make the audience empathise with Brundle before his painful end.

And it was with this empathy in mind, and a negative response from a test audience in Toronto, that the brains behind the movie decided to leave one disturbing scene on the cutting room floor.

In the ousted scene, a mutated Brundle creates a monkey-cat hybrid monster and beats it to death with a lead pipe.

In the documentary Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly, producer Stuart Cornfeld explained the rationale behind the removal.

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He said even though the film is about a protagonist who “on some level becomes the antagonist,” it was still essential to have the audience connect to the character’s plights throughout the entire story.

He added that beating an animal to death, even if it’s a cat monkey, would make the audience lose any interest in the lead character’s plight.

And while this scene was cut, one didn’t even make it to film for much the same reason as the cat-monkey reasoning.

In the equally twisted un-shot scene Brundle, taking on more of the fly’s traits, pukes on and liquifies a homeless woman’s face.

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