The Fly
When scientist Andre Delambre tests his matter transporter on himself, an errant housefly makes its way into the transportation chamber, and things go horribly wrong. His atoms have become mixed up with the fly, and now he is unable to reverse the procedure...
23 December 1948, Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
February 27, 1906 in Pony, Montana, USA
27 May 1911, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
November 23, 1898 in Sherman, Texas, USA
17 February 1919, Chicago, Illinois, USA
22 October 1915, New York City, New York, USA
17 January 1925, Golden, British Columbia, Canada
20 April 1914, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
1 December 1884, Århus, Denmark
23 May 1890, London, England, UK
January 2, 1897 in Bucharest, Romania
September 26, 2013
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.
September 18, 2013
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.
January 26, 2006
Clavell's script successfully treads a fine line between black comedy and po-faced seriousness.
October 17, 2011
Funny, horrible and inventive -- in its own deranged way this is a classic of 1950s horror.
October 05, 2013
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.
September 25, 2007
Slightly above average 50s science fiction (1958), enlivened by a nearly literate script by James Clavell.
September 27, 2013
It's the charisma of Vincent Price that really drives this movie and makes it a classic even today.
May 21, 2003
One of the better, more restrained entries of the 'shock' school.
September 19, 2013
Contemporary horror fans will be struck by how much more dramatic than horrific 'The Fly' is.
May 28, 2011
Every absurdity is offered and deciphered with such calm as to become hallucinatory
March 26, 2009
One strong factor of the picture is its unusual believability.
October 20, 2011
The script works hard to ensure that the premise delivers without succumbing to its surface absurdity.
