CinemaSerf

0/10

"Henri" (Brian Donlevy) is a scientist obsessed with matter transportation. He's got all sorts of gadgets in the basement of his rural home and his son "Martin" (George Baker) to help out. Thing is, his son has already had a bad experience with all of this mad science, and now remarried to "Patricia" (Carole Grey) he wants out. Fat chance thinks his dad - think of your grandad who concocted all of this up in the first place. Also, well think of the previous experiments that are currently occupying some locked rooms elsewhere on the property - and of one occupant in particular. "Patricia" - that's "Patreeshia" to the uninitiated, has an habit of exploring and when she discovers a little too much she begins to question her own sanity. Can she believe what she sees? Husband and father-in-law both tell her she's imagining things. Then the police show up looking for a missing woman. Who is she? Why are they looking there? As the net begins to close in, perhaps it's the teleport than can get them to safety and new lives? Hmmm. Neither Donlevy nor Baker carry this stodgy and over-scripted effort at all well and though there's quite a creepy effort from Yvette Rees, the rest of this is all pretty lacklustre fayre that is dragged out for at least half an hour too long. What visual effects there are are straight from the papier-mâché and glue factory and the story is just too thin.

Whitsbrain

7/10

This follow up to 1959's "The Return of the Fly" seems barely related to the first two movies of the series. There's no new fly-related action in it at all and there's no Vincent Price. But there is the Delambre family and this time they're busy teleporting back and forth between Quebec and London to stay one step ahead of the authorities. There are some cool directorial touches. The scene that plays during the opening credits is in slow motion and it's again in glorious black and white. It features Carole Gray escaping from a mental institution in nothing but a bra and panties. The laboratory set and transporters are classic Sci-Fi inventions. There's also an amazing shot when Martin enters a "cage" to find a deformed man leaping toward him. The look of this shot is really freaky, the man is filmed with some sort of negative effect that makes him look almost other dimensional. Also shocking is the transportation of two men, one after the other, but before each of them reaches the destination transporter. The result of the reintegration is actually fairly gory. The ending seems a bit rushed but it's not the typical happy Hollywood ending normally encountered in movies from this time period. "The Curse of the Fly" is a pretty entertaining and stylish finish to the overall satisfying "Fly" trilogy.