You won't be disappointed!

It is a performances centric movie

Good concept, poorly executed.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

This was one of the first horror movies I saw as a kid (it was made the year I was born). I just viewed it again on Netflix, and I am amazed at how well it has held up. When I first saw The Fly, color TV was a commodity for the wealthy. A 14 inch black and white TV was my first look at The Fly during the ABC 4:30 movie.On a color screen,the film looks AMAZING! That old Technicolor film process really does this film proud.The sets are very impressive. I'll always remember that sliding door in the lab, and the creepy sound it made when it was opened.But it is the acting of the female lead that sets this film on a higher level. The actress who plays Elaine really carries the film. Her love for her husband is so authentic and sincere, we have no trouble believing that she would do ANYTHING to help him. When she first sees his horribly transformed hand, her horror is totally believable. The way she regains her strength and composure immediately afterward is exactly how a woman who is completely in love with her husband would react to such a nightmare.All of the acting is really quite good. The police detective is also a stand out as the "long arm of the law" attempting to make sense of an inexplicable murder. The little boy who plays Phillipe also give a great and sympathetic performance.Some will argue that there is too much character exposition before the film gets down to the business of scaring us. However I think the character development is a great way to build sympathy for the characters. A lesson all too many of today's special digital effects laden films seem to forget.

The smart get smarter and the dumb get dumber. For the last 30 years, artists have ceased to be the heralds of culture. Where once Jack Kerouac, Elvis Presley and James Dean changed the way people acted and thought, now the Steve Jobs-types and the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world hold the influence. Instead of lines stretching across the street for the latest Beatles album, they're for the newest IPhone. In an increasingly tech-heavy world, one might come to the conclusion that we're more sophisticated than generations past. Steve Jobs certainly was, maybe even Zuckerberg, whose inventions didn't come out of mere computer know-how, but rather imagination and creativity: the same things fueling cultural change in the past. The only difference, however, is that the IPhone or Facebook are not intellectually or emotionally stimulating things; they don't force one to see the world through another's eyes, or expand their knowledge, as a book, film or album would--the good ones, at least. In other words, there's no intellectual trickle-down. Therefore, the smartest people in the world get smarter--creating new devices, websites, apps--and as a result, the dumb people get dumber.Seeing as how "The Fly" is a modern retelling of "Frankenstein," and thus ruminates on the double-edged sword of science, I found this particular review an apt catalyst for a small dose of my mad ranting on technology. I apologize."The Fly" stars Patricia Owens as the wife of a mad scientist (David Hedison). As often happens with scientists of the mad variety, an experiment goes horribly wrong, resulting in the hideous splicing of atoms between the scientist and a fly.The ambassador of horror himself, Vincent Price, plays the brother of the scientist, but is essentially the embodiment of the audience, expressing our groans and shock.On the surface, this sounds like any other B-monster movie from the '50s, meant to horrify dimwitted teenagers with hollow thrills and grotesque imagery--we've come so far. On the contrary, the film deals with the growing cultural reliance on technology and the mad race to push science as far as possible, albeit coercively. The ideas behind the scares wouldn't mean much if the scares weren't scary, but they are. Watching the film through modern eyes, I can't help but feel like I've seen this before--The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, etc.--but even a strained concept can continue to affect if done well enough, as it is here. Maybe it's my illogical fear of spiders, but there's one specific scene that will take my head some time to shake. And while this is totally meaningless, I adored the design of the laboratory, with all the swirly, neon lights and spinning doohickeys. While "The Fly" isn't the scariest or smartest sci-fi horror film, its message holds up, and will continue to for some time. Beyond that, at a pure sensory level, the movie is tense and occasionally frightening, but more fun than anything. For those of us who like spinning doohickeys.

A highly entertaining sci-fi horror and, overall, a wee bit better than Cronenberg's 80's The Fly, which was also a fine film.For both film's, the horror is in the concept: the genes of a fly contaminate the genes of a human by accident when an inventor does a 'beam me up, Scotty' / Tomorrow People transportation (ask your crumblies if you're under 45). Any hope that this might be reversed - with or without the fly - seems forlorn, to them and us. But love can conquer this, right? Yes, but only to a point, the point being where hope ends and hopelessness begins.Vincent Price is a nice guy and, for me, does that far more believably than his usual Dr Nasty roles.This 50's sci-fi horror classic is, like many films of that era, engrossing, pacey and flawless.

I read the sort story and this is a very faithful adaptation. What it lacks is that extra mystery and doom that the short story gives off in tone, but this film manages to be weirdly creepy and also funny. It's a lot of fun and sort of ridiculous, but it never goes overboard in its campiness. I haven't seen the Cronenberg one but this is definitely recommended, the acting from the leads is pretty great and it makes you wonder if they knew they were going for camp or not. If I have a complaint, it's that the short story's ending is much more effective, and things tidy up a little too much here. Still, definitely good to watch, with people.