Beware of black flies, they are the first to smell death. That is what rookie FDNY paramedic Ollie Cross is told by a colleague as he ventures into an abandoned apartment where a swarm is buzzing ...

Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan star in the medical thriller (Picture: David Ungaro) Black Flies is the type of relentlessly gruesome drama it’s perhaps best to avoid watching on a full stomach.

Tye Sheridan was in the middle of shooting The Night Clerk when Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire was adamant he needed the young actor to star in his upcoming paramedic movie Black Flies, so the French ...