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Motorist Martin Delambre attempts to keep evidence of his family's bizarre experiments in teleportation hidden from his wife, who is hiding secrets of her own.Motorist Martin Delambre attempts to keep evidence of his family's bizarre experiments in teleportation hidden from his wife, who is hiding secrets of her own.Motorist Martin Delambre attempts to keep evidence of his family's bizarre experiments in teleportation hidden from his wife, who is hiding secrets of her own.
Jeremy Wilkin
- Inspector Ronet
- (as Jeremy Wilkins)
Stan Simmons
- Heavyset Creature
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Harry Spalding
- George Langelaan(uncredited)
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- TriviaThis film was rarely seen for many years after its original release in 1965. As a result of this, it was the only one of the original "Fly" films that never received a VHS or LaserDisc release. It did not even receive a home video premiere at all until 2007, when it was released on DVD for the first time ever, in "The Fly Collection", a 4-disc box set that contained both it and the previous two films in the trilogy, The Fly (1958) and Return of the Fly (1959), as well as a special features DVD.
- GoofsIn the film, during a conversation about the Delambre family legacy, a photograph is shown of the Fly from the film Return of the Fly (1959). It is said that the Fly in the photograph is Andre Delambre (David Hedison) from The Fly (1958), but the photograph is actually of Philippe Delambre (Brett Halsey), the son of Andre, from Return of the Fly (1959). There were no photographs taken of the Fly by anyone in either of the previous two films in the original "Fly" trilogy, so this photograph should not even exist in this one, the third and final film in it.
- Quotes
Albert Delambre: You're not God, you're not even human. You murdered those men and you made me a murderer too.
- Crazy creditsAt the end of the closing credits: "Is this the end?"
- Alternate versionsThe UK cinema version was cut by the BBFC to reduce a shot of 2 previously teleported victims inside a glass cabinet in Albert Delambre's laboratory. The 2006 DVD is uncut.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Late Movie 18: Curse of the Fly (1980)
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Eh.
This is easily the weakest of the original The Fly series. It is the third and final installment and bares little resemblance to its predecessors. In fact, to accommodate its story line, the makers of the film actually change the plot details of the first two films. In The Fly, Andre Delambre, the original scientist to mix fly and human DNA, had a son named Phillipe. Phillipe would then become the main character of the first sequel, Return of the Fly. In the Curse of the Fly, there is no mention of Phillipe and suddenly Andre has a son named Henri. Where he came from, I haven't the slightest. This, as you can plainly see, could confuse viewers who are familiar with the first two films. Imagine Luke Skywalker not appearing in Return of the Jedi and out of nowhere, Darth Vader has a son named Roy. Same thing. It leaves one perplexed throughout a good chunk of the film.
Despite this obviously flaw, the story itself isn't that bad, I suppose. Henri and his sons are continuing with Andre's experiment to transport human beings from one place to the other. His one son, Martin, has married and his wife has discovered the botched experiments that had turned his ex-wife and former lab assistances into monsters. At first he tries to convince her she is dreaming all of this (Oh yeah, the film begins with her escaping from a mental hospital), but soon enough he can't disguise the fact that he and his father are mad scientists.
The one saving grace of this film is the pathetic attempt to pass off a Caucasian woman as a Chinese servant. She looks more like Katherine Hepurn then Amy Tan, but this embarrassing bit of casting at least brings some camp value to the picture. Again, this picture pails in comparison to The Fly (1958) and Return of the Fly (1959), which are both stellar pieces of early science fiction cinema.
And oh yeah, in Curse of the Fly, there is no fly at all to speak of throughout the entire film. Lame. So very lame.
Despite this obviously flaw, the story itself isn't that bad, I suppose. Henri and his sons are continuing with Andre's experiment to transport human beings from one place to the other. His one son, Martin, has married and his wife has discovered the botched experiments that had turned his ex-wife and former lab assistances into monsters. At first he tries to convince her she is dreaming all of this (Oh yeah, the film begins with her escaping from a mental hospital), but soon enough he can't disguise the fact that he and his father are mad scientists.
The one saving grace of this film is the pathetic attempt to pass off a Caucasian woman as a Chinese servant. She looks more like Katherine Hepurn then Amy Tan, but this embarrassing bit of casting at least brings some camp value to the picture. Again, this picture pails in comparison to The Fly (1958) and Return of the Fly (1959), which are both stellar pieces of early science fiction cinema.
And oh yeah, in Curse of the Fly, there is no fly at all to speak of throughout the entire film. Lame. So very lame.
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- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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