A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
David Hedison
- Andre Delambre
- (as Al Hedison)
Eugene Borden
- Dr. Ejoute
- (uncredited)
George Calliga
- Club Member
- (uncredited)
Harry Carter
- Orderly
- (uncredited)
Bill Clark
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
Arthur Dulac
- French Waiter
- (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
- Audience Member
- (uncredited)
Herschel Graham
- Club Member
- (uncredited)
Torben Meyer
- Gaston
- (uncredited)
Sol Murgi
- Audience Member
- (uncredited)
George Nardelli
- Detective
- (uncredited)
Franz Roehn
- Police Doctor
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis film became the biggest box office hit of director Kurt Neumann's career, but he never knew it or even found out about it. He died one month after the film's premiere and only one week before it went into general release.
- GoofsWhen the fly with Andre's head and arm is first revealed to have been caught in the spider's web and his brother Francois is completely unaware of it, the fly is struggling in the web. The string used to make the fly shake is clearly visible.
- Quotes
Andre Delambre: [about the cat killed by the transporter] She disintegrated perfectly, but never reappeared.
Helene Delambre: Where's she gone?
Andre Delambre: Into space... a stream of cat atoms...
[sighs]
Andre Delambre: It'd be funny if life weren't so sacred.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Deadly Earnest's Spooky Colour Marathon (1975)
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Scenes engraved on the mind
It's been said again and again that this is a good horror film. A Very Good film. But it is more than that.
I can still hear with my mind's ear (is that right?) the sound of the hydraulic press "WHUMP" and the echo. Then again that "WHUMP" ... is there another sound experience that reverberates through a movie like that?
Sure, surround sound, THX, all that tech stuff, but the sound as the manifestation of the crime that encircles this story, the horror as the mind tries to put together the images that (finally) is seen in a flashback as this scene bookends the start and "finish" of the plot.
The inner struggle of the scientist as he fights with his human hand to control the spasms of his "fly" arm is both horrible and heart-wrenching.
The shock as the cloth is torn away from the scientist's head... the fly's POV shot with facets and mirrors of the the screaming face of the scientist's poor wife! The scene at the spider's web as the shrill voice begs "help me... help me"
The horror of murder of a man/thing and a thing/man being shown and even compared in sharp (but obvious) dialogue.
You MUST see this and experience the earlier days of horror -when classics like this, like "The Thing From Another World," like "It, the Terror From Beyond Space" (the original model of Alien) exhibit a freshness and a palpable terror that remakes cannot capture, whatever wonderful special effects are thrown in to add to the creepiness. Sure these later gorefest horror films are good. I buy them all the time. But they are a different genre. The Fly with Vincent Price is NOT the same story as The Fly with Jeff Goldblum. It's not really a remake as a retelling.
See the original. It is rich with emotion and intelligence, not to mention some pretty fine acting for what was really a "B" movie.
I can still hear with my mind's ear (is that right?) the sound of the hydraulic press "WHUMP" and the echo. Then again that "WHUMP" ... is there another sound experience that reverberates through a movie like that?
Sure, surround sound, THX, all that tech stuff, but the sound as the manifestation of the crime that encircles this story, the horror as the mind tries to put together the images that (finally) is seen in a flashback as this scene bookends the start and "finish" of the plot.
The inner struggle of the scientist as he fights with his human hand to control the spasms of his "fly" arm is both horrible and heart-wrenching.
The shock as the cloth is torn away from the scientist's head... the fly's POV shot with facets and mirrors of the the screaming face of the scientist's poor wife! The scene at the spider's web as the shrill voice begs "help me... help me"
The horror of murder of a man/thing and a thing/man being shown and even compared in sharp (but obvious) dialogue.
You MUST see this and experience the earlier days of horror -when classics like this, like "The Thing From Another World," like "It, the Terror From Beyond Space" (the original model of Alien) exhibit a freshness and a palpable terror that remakes cannot capture, whatever wonderful special effects are thrown in to add to the creepiness. Sure these later gorefest horror films are good. I buy them all the time. But they are a different genre. The Fly with Vincent Price is NOT the same story as The Fly with Jeff Goldblum. It's not really a remake as a retelling.
See the original. It is rich with emotion and intelligence, not to mention some pretty fine acting for what was really a "B" movie.
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- existential
- Aug 27, 2000
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Box office
- Budget
- $700,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $1,501
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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