Clavell's script successfully treads a fine line between black comedy and po-faced seriousness.
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01/26/06
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... [More]
Starring: Vincent Price, David Hedison, Herbert Marshall, Patricia Owens
Director: Kurt Neumann
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Reviews for The Fly
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.
10/16/03
Though hardly a masterpiece, [the film] stands in many ways above the level of B-movie science fiction common in the 1950s.
07/23/08
A barometer for what some people perceive as funny and what others think is creepy
12/05/08
A sad story of considerable pathos despite the ridiculous plot.
12/09/03
Slightly above average 50s science fiction (1958), enlivened by a nearly literate script by James Clavell.
09/25/07
Top CriticAlthough written and filmed as a straightforward sci-fi parable about the dangers of tampering with nature, it is so ludicrous, so positively over the top that it simply cannot be taken seriously.
09/22/02
There's something truly fly about this unparalleled fly story that zaps you right in the old guts.
02/06/07
One of the better, more restrained entries of the 'shock' school.
05/21/03
Top CriticFun, slightly campy film.
07/25/01
Fun and frightening.
09/25/07
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03/26/09
Top Critic"Help me, help me!" Great camp.
08/13/02
A minor classic, certainly one of Price's best productions.
10/16/04
Cult classic that frankly isn't very good
10/02/02
So (Help me, Help me!) bad it's hilarious. Quintessential campiness.
07/27/05
Forever I'll hear that fly screaming 'help me.'
12/27/03
That squeaky little "help me!" is still creepier than anything our post Scream horror crop can conceive.
07/06/03
A true classic of the genre ... but I still like the remake better.
07/26/02
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