The Fly (1958 film)

""HEEEELP MEEEE! HEEEEEEEEELP MEEEEEEEEE!""

A 1958 horror movie starring Vincent Price, based on a short story by George Langelaan. Has since become a Cult Classic. Remade in 1986 by David Cronenberg.

A scientist invents a teleportation device. Unfortunately, when he tests it, a fly is in the chamber with him. The two switch heads and a hand, much to the chagrin of the scientist's wife. Now the family must find the fly that has his head and hand so he can properly switch them back before it's too late...


 * Billing Displacement: Price does not play the mad scientist, though most people think he does.
 * Biological Mashup
 * Downer Ending / Bittersweet Ending:.
 * Evil Hand: The fly's appendage that replaces the scientist's hand becomes increasingly rebellious as his intellect frays.
 * Lego Genetics: The scientist comes out with a fly head and hand seamlessly attached on his body.
 * Science Is Bad
 * The Speechless: In the original, the scientist is silenced as soon as he teleports.
 * That Poor Cat: The first test is unsuccessful.
 * In the original short story (bet you didn't know there was an original short story!), when the scientist, at his wife's urging, goes through the machine a second time in a futile attempt to unscramble things, bits of the cat get mixed in too (though a fly head with a cat nose and ears would've probably seemed more ludicrous than horrific).