I love this movie so much

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Blistering performances.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Nice little film, with two Oriental servants called Tai and Wan... that's a sample of the inspiration that screenwriter Harry Spalding brought to end the trilogy, but as everybody has pointed out it is better than the previous installment. Mental patient Patricia Stanley (sexy South African actress Carole Gray) is the main character this time, a pianist who escapes an asylum only to get mixed up with the Delambres, who now have cells in their manor, where they keep the victims of their experiments with teletransportation. Tai-Wan are in charge of the Delambre mansion, laboratory and prison, and things get ugly but no flies fly around to make them nastier. Enjoy!

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.

Even without the presence of Vincent Price, "Curse of the Fly" turns out to be quite the effective sci-fi horror thriller, and for me, a welcome treat courtesy of my local library, since I didn't know this third entry in the "Fly" series even existed until today. The picture effectively follows up on events of the original Price thriller, which I remember to this day as one of the all time great horror flicks to leave it's indelible impression on my youthful upbringing. Even if it doesn't have the audacity of 'Pleeeasee, help meee", I thought the picture did a real fine job of spanning the generations utilizing the original teleporter gimmick.But gee, what's with the whole VE3TTF Montreal/G2FRR London business? Did the Delambre's really have to go through all that protocol just to talk to each other? It seemed pretty clever the first couple of times, but wore thin after awhile, and after all, who else would it be on the other end of the line? But I guess that's part of what gives this flick it's unique character. What's really unique though was the way the picture opens. That was a head scratcher actually, I had to check the DVD sleeve to be sure I was watching the right movie. Escaping from the Fournier Mental Hospital (nice set up), Pat Stanley traverses the Canadian countryside in her underwear until rescued, so to speak, by Martin Delambre (George Baker) on his way back home to Montreal. Now think about this - without ever questioning why she might have been traipsing around in her undies, the couple spends a week together before Martin pops the question. Not exactly the best recipe for a lasting marriage, but then again, there have probably been odder scenarios.The fact that you never even see a 'Fly' in this movie shouldn't come as a let down; the whole idea of the picture supports the premise of a Delambre legacy that resulted in tragedy the first time around, and continues to rear it's ugly head, or other mutations as the case may be. The creature effects are reasonably daring enough without going over the top, thereby helping to maintain suspense throughout. If I were rating the trio of pictures in the 'Fly' series, I'd place this second to the original starring Vincent Price. Brian Donlevy is convincingly conflicted and creepy enough to take up the Delambre mantle as he tries to keep his sons in line with the scientific mission. Besides the principals, Burt Kwouk and Yvette Rees are convincing as the loyal Asian servants, but one has to wonder - Tai and Wan - Taiwan? Who makes this stuff up?

I wasn't too impressed by "Return of the Fly", but it still fascinated me! When I learnt that there was a third one, I was quite intrigued to see it. I just watched it for the first time on DVD, and I was quite impressed on how smart the story was, and even though there is no Human-Fly monster in it (which, to be honest, is a smart approach), I thought it was more clever to base the movie around the Delambre legacy, rather than focus on the whole "man gets gene-spliced with a fly" blah blah blah! To be honest, I was expecting something REALLY dreadfully cheesy, but surprisingly, I loved it! The visuals (especially, the opening credit sequence, very well thought up!), and the originality of it is superbly done! It's got the classic horror movie style down perfectly! True its not as frightening as say... Alien, but, for its time (1960s), the mutant make up and story are very well sorted! TOTALLY UNDERRATED!