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Podcast: Slashers
Episode: The Fly (1986)
Description: Imagine you're reading a Playboy magazine in 1957, y'know-- for the articles. Then you stumble onto a little short story by a fella named George Langelaan. It's a little ditty called The Fly, about some lady who crushes her husband's dome in a machine hammer. You're like, "whoa! where did my erection go!" But then you find out he accidentally mutated into a fly/ human hybrid in a teleporting accident and that erection comes right back!
Now, there was an adaptation with Vincent Price, which was very competent. Sure, the effects are somewhat hokey, but the story is...