 In my opinion, the Fly is the best remake of all time. What about the thing? Okay, sorry, one of the best remakes of all time. Damn right. Because like the thing, it wasn't trying to improve on something that was already great. Both the thing and the Fly were low-budget B-movies. The 1958 version of the Fly was probably pretty terrifying upon its release, but now it comes off a little campy. Hmm, we're going camping? The original had a scientist walking around with a lab coat and a giant fly head. Very handsome. In the remake, we saw the gradual physical and mental transformation of a man into a monster. It's in such stark contrast to the original. It takes something that worked at the time, but has now become cliche. And it made it serious and scary and tragic again. I always cry when she blows his head off. Great remakes like the Fly take elements from the original that don't stand up anymore and reimagine them instead of just relying on what already worked.