The Fly (1958)
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 38
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 2
Deliciouly funny to some and eerily presicient to others, The Fly walks a fine line between shlocky fun and unnerving nature parable.
Average Rating: N/A
Critic Reviews: 4
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 0
Deliciouly funny to some and eerily presicient to others, The Fly walks a fine line between shlocky fun and unnerving nature parable.
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Movie Info
Wealthy Helene Delambre (Patricia Owens) is discovered late at night in the factory owned by her husband Andre (David Hedison). Helene stands beside a huge metal press, which has crushed the head and arm of her husband. Held for murder, the near-catatonic Helene refuses to tell anyone--not even Andre's brother Francois (Vincent Price)--why she did it. Francois cannot help but notice that Helene reacts in mortal terror when a tiny flies zips through the room. Nor can he disregard the statement
Jul 16, 1958 Wide
Sep 11, 2007
Fox
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Cast
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Vincent Price
Francois -
Patricia Owens
Helene -
Herbert Marshall
Inspector Charas -
Kathleen Freeman
Emma -
Betty Lou Gerson
Nurse Andersone -
Charles Herbert
Philippe -
Eugene Borden
Dr. Ejoute -
Torben Meyer
Gaston -
Franz Roehn
Police Doctor -
Charles Tannen
Doctor -
Harry Carter
Orderly -
David Hedison
Andre -
Arthur Dulac
French Waiter
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All Critics (38) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (36) | Rotten (2) | DVD (10)
One strong factor of the picture is its unusual believability.
Top CriticSlightly above average 50s science fiction (1958), enlivened by a nearly literate script by James Clavell.
Clavell's script successfully treads a fine line between black comedy and po-faced seriousness.
One of the better, more restrained entries of the 'shock' school.
The climax ("Help me!") has given many viewers chills while providing others with chuckles -- I'm in the former camp; the primal terror of that situation never fails to move me -- but the rest is efficient in its solemnity.
It's the charisma of Vincent Price that really drives this movie and makes it a classic even today.
A bit corny, but mostly a chilling and worthwhile experience. Mother Nature is the bad guy in this tale. The humans are all protagonists. All of them.
Contemporary horror fans will be struck by how much more dramatic than horrific 'The Fly' is.
The Fly is a study in how the boldness of new discoveries is compromised by science's need for precision, but it's also a nightmarish tale of a comfortable little family, and a nagging little buzz.
The script works hard to ensure that the premise delivers without succumbing to its surface absurdity.
Funny, horrible and inventive -- in its own deranged way this is a classic of 1950s horror.
Every absurdity is offered and deciphered with such calm as to become hallucinatory
A barometer for what some people perceive as funny and what others think is creepy
Though hardly a masterpiece, [the film] stands in many ways above the level of B-movie science fiction common in the 1950s.
Fun and frightening.
There's something truly fly about this unparalleled fly story that zaps you right in the old guts.
A minor classic, certainly one of Price's best productions.
Forever I'll hear that fly screaming 'help me.'
Just about worth seeing, but probably not as good as you'd imagine.
A sad story of considerable pathos despite the ridiculous plot.
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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- Francois: You've commited murder just as much as Helene did. You killed a fly with a human head. She killed a human with a fly head.
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- Andre: Help me! Help me!
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Foreign Titles
- The Fly (1958) (DE)
- The Fly (1958) (UK)
