Catching a little fly makes for some interesting suspense as the distorted bug views build toward an intense insect reveal and wonderful, albeit tiny, shockers.

| Apr 19, 2024

THE FLY (1958) is a film that surprised even its producers. I would contend that the reason this film had the impact that it did is that it really is very much an archetypal story, an "Oedipus Rex" for the scientific age.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 16, 2022

Background music is used effectively and the camera's shots of the man-fly are startling. For true horror, catch The Fly.

| Sep 25, 2021

Like the very best monster movies, the creature itself isn't revealed until very late into the picture.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 18, 2020

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 -- and the rest is efficient in its solemnity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 15, 2019

A must for all monster movie fans.

| Aug 2, 2019

It's the charisma of Vincent Price that really drives this movie and makes it a classic even today.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 27, 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.

| Original Score: A | Sep 26, 2013

Contemporary horror fans will be struck by how much more dramatic than horrific 'The Fly' is.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 19, 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.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 18, 2013

The script works hard to ensure that the premise delivers without succumbing to its surface absurdity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 20, 2011

Funny, horrible and inventive -- in its own deranged way this is a classic of 1950s horror.

| Oct 17, 2011

Every absurdity is offered and deciphered with such calm as to become hallucinatory

| May 28, 2011

One strong factor of the picture is its unusual believability.

| Mar 26, 2009

A barometer for what some people perceive as funny and what others think is creepy

Full Review | Dec 5, 2008

Though hardly a masterpiece, [the film] stands in many ways above the level of B-movie science fiction common in the 1950s.

| Jul 23, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2007

Fun and frightening.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 25, 2007

Slightly above average 50s science fiction (1958), enlivened by a nearly literate script by James Clavell.

| Sep 25, 2007

There's something truly fly about this unparalleled fly story that zaps you right in the old guts.

| Original Score: B | Feb 6, 2007