Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Released: 1958
© 1958 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Renewed 1986 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
About the Movie
Wealthy Helene Delambre (Patricia Owens) is discovered late at night in the factory owned by her husband Andre (David Hedison). Helene stands beside a huge metal press, which has crushed the head and arm of her husband. Held for murder, the near-catatonic Helene refuses to tell anyone—not even Andre's brother Francois (Vincent Price)—why she did it. Francois cannot help but notice that Helene reacts in mortal terror when a tiny flies zips through the room. Nor can he disregard the statement made by Helene's son Philippe (Charles Herbert) that the fly has a curious white head and leg. When Francois pretends that he's captured the fly, Helene relaxes enough to tell her story. It seems that Andre, a scientist, had been working on a matter transmitter, which he claimed could disintegrate matter, then reintegrate it elsewhere. After a few experiments, Andre tried the transmitter himself. Just as he stepped into the disintegration chamber, a fly also flew into the chamber. We aren't immediately shown the results of this, save for the fact that Andre afterward insists upon keeping his head and arm covered. Alone with her husband, Helene abruptly removes the covering, revealing that Andre now bears the head of a fly! His atoms have become mixed up with the fly, and now he is unable to reverse the procedure. Deciding that his transmitter will be a bogy rather than a blessing to mankind, Andre smashes the apparatus and burns his notes. He then instructs Helene, via body language, to crush his fly-like head and arm in the press. Neither Francois nor inspector Charas (Herbert Marshall) believe the story...until, while staring intently at a spider's web in the garden, they see a tiny entrapped fly with Andre's head and arm, tinnily screaming "Help me! Help me!" as the slavering spider approaches (If you're wondering why Vincent Price and Herbert Marshall do not look one another in the eye during this scene, it is because they couldn't deliver their dialogue without dissolving into laughter). Infinitely subtler than the admittedly excellent 1986 remake, the 1958 The Fly is one of the definitive big-budget horror films of its decade. Best bit: the prismatic "fly's eye view" of the screaming Patricia Owens. The Fly was adapted from George Langelaan's short story by James (Shogun) Clavell.
导演: Kurt Neumann (I)
编剧: 乔治·朗格兰 / 詹姆斯·克伦威尔
主演: 大卫·海迪生 / 帕特里夏·欧文斯 / 文森特·普莱斯 / 赫伯特·马歇尔 / 凯瑟琳·弗里曼 / 更多...
类型: 科幻 / 悬疑 / 恐怖
制片国家/地区: 美国
语言: 英语
上映日期: 1958-08-29
片长: 94 分钟
剧情简介
　　倒叙，科学家安德烈（大卫·海迪生 David Hedison饰）的美貌妻子海琳（帕特丽夏·欧文斯 Patricia Owens饰）打来电话，向安德烈的弟弟弗朗索瓦（文森特·普莱斯 Vincent Price饰）求助。她向弗朗索瓦和警探坦白，自己刚刚杀害了丈夫安德烈。案发前，安德烈痴迷研发他的时空交错机器，这个机器能够将人体分解传输到另一个地方再重组。可他万万没有想到的是：正在他埋头实验的时候，一只闯进来的丑陋苍蝇飞进了机器……
　　这部由二十世纪福克斯公司于1958年推出的低成本科幻片《苍蝇》，可谓史上经典“变蝇人”的开山鼻祖。二十世纪福克斯公司相继推出1959年的《变蝇人回归》和1965年的《苍蝇的诅咒》。此后“苍蝇热”一发不可收拾，影响了八十年代的同类电影：1986年翻拍的《变蝇人》更加注重恐怖视觉的处理，荣获奥斯卡最佳化妆奖，而在1989年推出《变蝇人2》接力演绎“苍蝇热”。
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