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Directing the Documentary
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On the Parole Board: Reflections on Crime, Punishment, Redemption, and Justice
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A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
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Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror
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My Age of Anxiety
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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated The Fly (1958) in Movies
Dec 7, 2020
The plot: When scientist Andre Delambre (Al Hedison) tests his matter transporter on himself, an errant housefly makes its way into the transportation chamber, and things go horribly wrong. As a result, Delambre's head and arm are now that of the insect. Slowly losing himself to the fly, Delambre turns to his wife, Helene (Patricia Owens), for help. But when tragedy strikes, Delambre's brother (Vincent Price) and Inspector Charas (Herbert Marshall) are forced to pick up the investigation.
Years later, Vincent Price recalled the cast finding some levity during the filming: "We were playing this kind of philosophical scene, and every time that little voice [of the fly] would say ‘Help me! Help me!’ we would just scream with laughter. It was terrible. It took us about 20 takes to finally get it
The film's financial success had the side-effect of boosting co-star Vincent Price (whose previous filmography featured only scattered forays into genre film) into a major horror star. Price himself was positive about the film, saying, decades later, "I thought THE FLY was a wonderful film – entertaining and great fun."
American Film Institute Lists:
AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills – Nominated
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes:
"Help me! Help me!" – Nominated
Like i said its great.
Anthrozoology: Embracing Co-Existence in the Anthropocene
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This groundbreaking work of both theoretical and experiential thought by two leading ecological...
What Can Aristotle Do For You?
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Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker who was preoccupied with an ordinary question: how to live a...
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