Return of the Fly

Infobox Film
name = Return of the Fly


image_size = 200px
caption = Promotional movie poster for the film
director = Edward Bernds
producer = Bernard Glasser
writer = Characters:
George Langelaan
Screenplay:
Edward Bernds
narrator =
starring = Vincent Price
Brett Halsey
music = Paul Sawtell
Bert Shefter
cinematography = Brydon Baker
editing = Richard Meyer
distributor = 20th Century-Fox
released = 1959
runtime = 80 min.
country = USA
language = English / French
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:41090
imdb_id = 0053219

"Return of the Fly" is the first sequel to the 1958 horror film "The Fly". It was released in 1959, and directed by Edward Bernds. Unlike the preceding film, "Return of the Fly" was shot in black and white. The film was followed by another sequel in 1965, "Curse of the Fly".

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The story resumes 15 years after the end of "The Fly". André's son, Phillippe, now a young man attending his mother's funeral along with Vincent Price returned to the same role as François Delambre, brother of the stricken scientist. Returning from the funeral, Phillipe pesters François for the secret of his father's death and he reluctantly tells him. It turns out Phillipe has been working along similar lines and they go to the old lab where the ruined equipment and books remain (somehow after all those years). Phillipe states that he wants to follow in his father's footsteps but Francois wants nothing to do with it.

Phillipe works with a friend, someone who used to work with François and they resurrect the fatal machine. After a number of successful experiments, a guinea pig is disintegrated and left like that for 24 hours. Meanwhile, Phillipe's friend turns out to be treacherous and wants to sell the plans to the highest bidder, with the help of a crooked friend of his. But unknown to him, he has been followed by a detective who confronts him in the lab. He knocks the cop out and sends him away in the disintegration machine. He later calls his friend to help him get rid of the body and when he reintegrates it, the detective now has the hands and feet of a guinea pig (left in suspension) while that animal has human hands and feet. He crushes it underfoot and together with his crony, they dispose of the near human body.

Phillipe however has guessed something was going on and finds his friend about to steal the plans. He is knocked out and put into one of the cabinets and since Philippe was always scared of flies, the villain puts one in with him and disintegrates them, then leaves with the plans. François tries to stop him and gets shot in the stomach. Helped to the lab, he reintegrate Phillipe only to see that he now has a fly head (more horrific than in original film), a fly left arm and a fly leg and is taller. Phillipe shatters the booth and escapes, shot at by the police.

While François is treated for his bullet wound, the police hunt Phillipe, unaware that he is now a monster. Phillipe meanwhile kills the man who was supposed to sell the plans and then his former friend who had made him like that. He makes it back to the mansion where the other fly has been caught by a detective who has discovered the secret and together the two human-fly hybrids are put into the machine again and both re-emerge whole again.

Popular culture

*The film was the subject of a song by the horror-punk band The Misfits.
*Usually criticised as more insipid or contrived than the rest of the trilogy, "Return of the Fly" achieved cult status as a B-movie.
*Though "The Fly II", the sequel to the 1986 remake of the original, follows closer to the David Cronenberg film, the film's ending is a similar fashion to "Return of the Fly" where Martin is turned back into his human form.
*A movie titled "The Fly" is also scheduled for tentative release sometime in 2008 but little information can be confirmed. It is unknown whether the movie intends to remake "The Fly" saga, or incorporate more surreal Kafka-esque elements.Fact|date=February 2007
*The film was rated a 12 when released on DVD in the UK. The first film was a PG. This was mainly due to the realistic killing of the hybrid human/guinea pig when the villain stomps his foot on the tiny creature in order to destroy it.
*Vincent Price even revealed in a 1988 interview that he was very displeased that this sequel was shot in black and white when the first film was in good quality color. He did praise the film for its story and scares but felt the low budget made the film suffer in terms of its loss of color in this film.

External links

*imdb title|id=0053219|title=The Return of the Fly
*rotten-tomatoes|id=return_of_the_fly|title=The Return of the Fly
*amg title|id=1:41090|title=The Return of the Fly