Curse of the Fly (1965)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Don Sharp

Writer:

Harry Spalding (written by)

Release Date:

May 1965 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi | Drama

Plot:

Remember that scientist that was trying to perfect a matter transportation machine but got fused with...

Plot Keywords:

Scientist | Experiment | England | Picture | Teleportation

Cast

Brian Donlevy	...	Henri Delambre
George Baker	...	Martin Delambre
Carole Gray	...	Patricia 'Pat' Stanley
Yvette Rees	...	Wan
Burt Kwouk	...	Tai
Mary Manson	...	Judith Delambre
Michael Graham	...	Albert Delambre
Rachel Kempson	...	Madame Fournier
Jeremy Wilkins	...	Inspector Ronet
Warren Stanhope	...	Hotel Manager
Charles Carson	...	Inspector Charas
Mia Anderson	...	Nurse
Arnold Bell	...	Hotel Porter

Also Known As:

The Curse of the Fly (USA) (DVD title)

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Australia:M | UK:PG (re-rating) (2006) | UK:X (original rating) | Netherlands:12 | USA:Approved

Filming Locations:

Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK

Company:

Lippert Films

Trivia:

Vincent Price is missing from this, the third and final installment of the series. By this time this was produced, Price was under contract to American International Pictures.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Fly Papers: The Buzz on Hollywood's Scariest Insect (2000) (TV)

One of the Few Times I Can Say a Movie Scared Me

Low budget, grade B second sequel to the "classic" Vincent Price horror film with the half-man, half-fly trapped in a web crying for help.

Might be lumped in with all the other stale, stodgy, campy horror flicks of that era, but "Curse of the Fly" has the distinction in my family of being the only film I can truly say startled me with one single, solitary, particular scene; when the young woman was looking in the locked cells outside where the failed experiments were kept and she opened the little door where food is put in and slowly she bends over to see what is inside, .. . .

The falling door before she looked within startled me to such a point I leapt into the air when I first viewed it. I told my brother and he had just watched it earlier and said the same thing. Our older sister said the same thing happened to her when she watched it.

And we were all well out of high school when we watched this film for the first time.

No other movie has had such a startling moment as that scene in this movie.