<P> The Fly holds a 91% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 57 reviews . In 2005, Time magazine film critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel included The Fly in their list of the All - TIME 100 Greatest Movies . Time later named it one of the 25 best horror films . The film was ranked #33 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments . Similarly, the Chicago Film Critics Association named The Fly the 32nd scariest film ever made . </P> <P> In 2008, the American Film Institute distributed ballots to 1,500 directors, critics and other people associated with the film industry in order to determine the top ten American films in ten different genre categories . Cronenberg's version of The Fly was nominated under the science fiction category, although it did not make the top ten . It was also nominated for AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills and AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions and Veronica's warning to Tawny in the film--"Be afraid . Be very afraid ."--was nominated for AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes . </P> <P> The quote "Be afraid . Be very afraid ." was also used as the film's marketing tagline, and became so ingrained in popular culture (as it--and variants--have appeared in countless films and TV series) that a large number of people who are familiar with the phrase are unaware that it originated in The Fly . </P> <P> The Fly was nominated for the awards in the chart below . Many genre fans and film critics at the time thought that Jeff Goldblum's performance would receive a Best Actor Oscar nomination, but this did not come to pass . Gene Siskel subsequently stated that Goldblum most likely "got stiffed" out of a nomination because the older academy voters generally do not honor horror films . </P>

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