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Name: The Fly
Released: 1958-8-29
Cast: Al Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall, Kathleen Freeman

The Fly

NR
1h 34m
1958

95%

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Obsessed scientist Andre Delambre invents a matter transmitter with horrifying repercussions. Though he has had varying degrees of success with the device, he decides to use himself in a human project to test the machine. When a fly accidentally enters the chamber at the time of the experiment, the scientist reemerges a hybrid – half-man, half-fly!

Director:

Kurt Neumann

Producer:

Kurt Neumann

Writer:

James Clavell, Kurt Neumann

Cast:

Al Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall, Kathleen Freeman, Betty Lou Gerson, Charles Herbert

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

95%

Critics Consensus: Deliciouly funny to some and eerily presicient to others, The Fly walks a fine line between shlocky fun and unnerving nature parable.

Reviews

BFI

Anton Bitel

Kurt Neumann’s foundational body horror splits one person across two bodies, with bleakly mutant results.

Catching a little fly makes for some interesting suspense as the distorted bug views build toward an intense insect reveal and wonderful, albeit tiny, shockers.

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Mark Leeper's Reviews

Mark R. Leeper

THE FLY (1958) is a film that surprised even its producers. I would contend that the reason this film had the impact that it did is that it really is very much an archetypal story, an "Oedipus Rex" for the scientific age.

Background music is used effectively and the camera's shots of the man-fly are startling. For true horror, catch The Fly.

Like the very best monster movies, the creature itself isn't revealed until very late into the picture.

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