The Fly (1986) — "Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid." (with Stacy Berro)
"Be afraid. Be very afraid."
For the first time on this show — we actually know who wrote it. And the answer is the last person you'd expect.
Bilingual voice actor Stacy Berro joins Nate to dig into The Fly (1986) and one of the most famous horror taglines ever written — "Be afraid. Be very afraid." This episode marks a first for The Poster Says...: we actually know who wrote it!
"Be afraid. Be very afraid."
Five words. A direct command, repeated and intensified. No plot. No character. No genre signal. Just escalating dread aimed straight at the audience before they've seen a single frame.
Every episode of The Poster Says... ends the same way: another anonymous genius, another slow clap into the void, another name that history forgot.
This episode is different.
We know who wrote it. And when Nate tells you — you are not going to see it coming.
Nate is joined by bilingual voice actor Stacy Berro — whose warm, bright, and versatile performances span commercial, character, narration, dubbing, imaging, animation, and English/Spanish bilingual content — to break down David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986). The film that transformed a 1958 B-movie premise into one of the most emotionally devastating body-horror films ever made. The film where the tagline started as dialogue — delivered with a sardonic edge, almost as a joke — and became pure existential dread the moment it hit a poster. And the film that won its only Oscar for Best Makeup, for effects so viscerally disturbing the Academy had no choice but to acknowledge them.
Also: five other documented taglines, a UK teaser poster most people have never seen, and one entry that almost certainly isn't a real tagline at all. Nate did the homework. It gets interesting.
Be afraid. Stay for the reveal.
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Stacy Berro is a bilingual voice actor delivering warm, bright, and versatile performances across commercial, character, narration, dubbing, imaging, animation, and English/Spanish bilingual content — including singing vocals for animation and character-based projects.
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