“Be afraid. Be very afraid.” The famous line uttered herein by Geena Davis is no exaggeration; Goldblum achieved a new performance peak as the driven scientist whose first-person experiments warp his human nature and DNA. Cronenberg and co-screenwriter Charles Edward Pogue’s take on the George Langelaan short story (previously filmed in 1958) is both viscerally and emotionally upsetting. The Academy Award-winning make-up is by Chris Walas and Stephan Dupuis.