It's easy to see why visceral visionary David Cronenberg was attracted to this remake - it neatly reflected his pet obsessions with disease, deformity, and our uneasy relationship with our bodies and their fleshy existence. Jeff Goldblum stars as Seth Brundle, a scientist obsessed with perfecting a revolutionary teleportation machine. Keen to impress comely journalist Veronica (Geena Davis), he takes her back to his pad to show her his pods. The technology isn't quite there - he can't transport live animals, as evidenced when a baboon completes his journey from pod to pod only to arrive, erm, inside out - but in a moment of drunken recklessness he decides to test the device on himself. Amazingly, it works - but a stowaway fly crept into the machine with him, beginning a gross transformation that will leave him struggling with the beast within. Darkly comic, unexpectedly poignant and repulsively entertaining (the special effects by Chris Walas are still staggering today, almost 30 years on), The Fly is a perfect combination of sci fi, romance, and gory midnight movie. Be afraid, be very afraid...

Join us from 21:00 in the Café/Bar for a celebration of weird science, body horror, and of course, Jeff Goldblum - with sci-fi sounds, photo-pods and prizes for anyone brave enough to dress up in their favourite science outfits. Disfigurement not required.

Tickets: £5.50 full / £4.00 concessions.

Part of Sci Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder, part of the BFI's huge celebration of science fiction, the world's most popular film genre, in Bristol and Beyond. Check watershed.co.uk/scifi for all the latest out of this world events.

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