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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | Sep 25, 2021

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

Full Review | 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.

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

A must for all monster movie fans.

Full Review | Aug 2, 2019

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

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Sep 26, 2013

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

Full Review | 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.

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

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

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

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

Full Review | Oct 17, 2011

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

Full Review | May 28, 2011

One strong factor of the picture is its unusual believability.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2008

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

Fun and frightening.

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

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

Full Review | Sep 25, 2007

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

Full Review | Original Score: B | Feb 6, 2007