★★★ Watched 06 Aug 2019
The original The Fly is a flashback movie where most of the entire film is shot as a flashback. The film opens as Hélène (Patricia Owens) kills her husband and confesses to the crime. What we don’t know is why. This is where the meat of the movie is. Scientist André Delambre (David Hedison) is working in his lab and is studying about transferring matter from one location to another. Some of his experiments go wrong, especially the one he performed on himself.
The film is classified as sci-fi/horror which I found not not really be correct if classifying it today. It was label sci-fi because of the scientific experiments, and horror because its a bug? There was nothing horror about this. It wasn’t scary, no one was really being murdered. You don’t even see the fly/man until the end of the film and he wants to die, not kill someone.
This is my first watch of any of The Fly films. I was looking to watch the Jeff Goldblum version, but it was not available on any of my subscription services, so I decided to start from the beginning. Now, I have a comparison for the remake.
