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The Fly (1958)

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Reviews Counted:30

Fresh:28

Rotten:2

Average Rating:7/10

Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: A classic science-fiction/horror film about a scientist's "teleport" machines, which dissolve atoms in one place to recreate them in another. When the scientist unwittingly shares the machine with... A classic science-fiction/horror film about a scientist's "teleport" machines, which dissolve atoms in one place to recreate them in another. When the scientist unwittingly shares the machine with a common housefly, he turns into a hideous hybrid of man and insect--and begins to literally bug out. The scientist wants to reverse the process, but first he must catch that fly. Hilarious as well as horrific, this spawned two sequels in the '50s (RETURN OF THE FLY and CURSE OF THE FLY) before starting another cycle in the '80s, beginning with David Cronenberg's remake. [More]

Starring: Vincent Price, David Hedison, Herbert Marshall, Patricia Owens

Starring: Vincent Price, David Hedison, Herbert Marshall, Patricia Owens, Kathleen Freeman, Betty Lou Gerson, Charles Herbert, Eugene Borden, Torben Meyer, Harry Carter, Charles Tannen, Franz Roehn

Director: Kurt Neumann

Director: Kurt Neumann
Screenwriter: James Clavell
Producer: Kurt Neumann
Composer: Paul Sawtell

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Oct 17, 1991

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03/26/09
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A barometer for what some people perceive as funny and what others think is creepy

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12/05/08
Shane Burridge
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Though hardly a masterpiece, [the film] stands in many ways above the level of B-movie science fiction common in the 1950s.

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07/23/08
Steve Biodrowski
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ESplatter

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10/21/07
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
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Fun and frightening.

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09/25/07
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Slightly above average 50s science fiction (1958), enlivened by a nearly literate script by James Clavell.

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09/25/07
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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There's something truly fly about this unparalleled fly story that zaps you right in the old guts.

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02/06/07
Dennis Schwartz
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12/19/06
Blake French
Blake French
NutzWorld

Clavell's script successfully treads a fine line between black comedy and po-faced seriousness.

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01/26/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

So (Help me, Help me!) bad it's hilarious. Quintessential campiness.

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07/27/05
James Plath
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07/09/05
Emanuel Levy
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No review available.

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02/07/05
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

A minor classic, certainly one of Price's best productions.

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10/16/04
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
Kansas City Kansan

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08/25/04
Thomas Delapa
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Boulder Weekly

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03/12/04
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Forever I'll hear that fly screaming 'help me.'

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12/27/03
Alex Sandell
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum

Just about worth seeing, but probably not as good as you'd imagine.

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12/11/03
Luke Y. Thompson
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times

A sad story of considerable pathos despite the ridiculous plot.

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12/09/03
Almar Haflidason
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11/10/03
Rebecca Murray
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The Fly has, over the years, acquired the reputation as some sort of a classic. How this has been achieved I am afraid I am at a loss to explain.

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