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The Fly (1958) [Full Reaction] (Patreon)

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2026-10-29 03:30:02
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I certainly wasn't expecting this story to be so different from the remake. I quite enjoyed it! I hope you enjoy the reaction and thanks so much for watching with me. 🥰

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The Fly (1958) | Full-Length Watchalong Reaction

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Thadman

That ending still lives rent-free in my head, ever since I first saw this as a kid on TV.

Tyler Foster

As you go through these three originals, the fame of the participants grows. For the original Thing From Another World, the real name attached to it was director Howard Hawks, one of the most famous filmmakers of that era (and someone who was known for his fast-talking women with memorable personalities). Although you did not recognize him, the headline name here is "the other guy," Francois, who was played by the legendary Vincent Price, one of the most famous genre actors who ever lived. He is in many, many great and memorable movies -- while I won't actually say the (different) title so you can potentially be surprised if you ever watch it, just to "name" one movie, the Will Smith movie I Am Legend is actually a remake of another Vincent Price movie, made all the way back in 1964 (although both, along with a third movie, are all based on a 1954 novel by Richard Matheson, also called I Am Legend). In the third and final film in your run, you'll encounter a movie star who wasn't even limited to genre and whose name you'll probably recognize even if you wouldn't recognize his face (although I could be wrong). Another couple of names jumped out at me during the credits here. The first one was Kathleen Freeman, who played the maid who didn't seem to think the fly everyone was trying to catch was that unusual. You've seen her as "The Penguin," the potentially supernatural nun who raised Jake and Elwood in The Blues Brothers. The other one was even more surprising: James Clavell, who wrote the screenplay. Clavell is probably most famous as an author, having written the 1975 novel Shogun, the basis for the recent hit FX TV series, which also was a second adaptation, following an equally-celebrated 1980 version. This was my first time watching this movie and I agree that it's very entertaining. I had seen an image of what The Fly looked like in this, perhaps in a making-of documentary on the Cronenberg movie. I think you hit the nail on the head: the spirit of the movie is the same, with the doomed romance, but the particulars are all different. Last but not least, there are two sequels to The Fly, Return of the Fly (1959) and Curse of the Fly (1965) (not to mention, a 1989 sequel to the 1986 Fly, which I was delighted to learn, watching this, contains a reference to this one, maybe). Shockingly, even though Return of the Fly was released only a year later, director Kurt Neumann died just over a month after this film was released, and only five weeks after production was completed. I have no idea if either of them are any good, and surely they wouldn't be reaction material because I doubt they'd be very popular, but in case you want to continue, they're out there.

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Yeah, I won't spend the time reacting to any of these sequels, but perhaps someday I'll check them out on my own time! 🥰 Love that this was a first watch for you, too!