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
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A barometer for what some people perceive as funny and what others think is creepy Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Fun and frightening. Full Review |
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Slightly above average 50s science fiction (1958), enlivened by a nearly literate script by James Clavell. Full Review |
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There's something truly fly about this unparalleled fly story that zaps you right in the old guts. Full Review |
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Clavell's script successfully treads a fine line between black comedy and po-faced seriousness. Full Review |
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3/5 |
So (Help me, Help me!) bad it's hilarious. Quintessential campiness.
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4/5 |
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3/5 |
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4/5 |
A minor classic, certainly one of Price's best productions.
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4/5 |
Forever I'll hear that fly screaming 'help me.'
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3/5 |
Just about worth seeing, but probably not as good as you'd imagine.
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3/5 |
A sad story of considerable pathos despite the ridiculous plot. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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