Curse of the Fly concerns the further misadventures of the Delambre family and their matter teleportation experiments. The movie opens brilliantly with a hot babe (Carole Gray) in her underwear breaking out of the loony bin. She marries a Delambre and gradually discovers the nature of the experiments…and the horrible mutants they produce. Although better make-up would have improved the mutant scenes significantly, they are still pretty creepy (I recall some of them being shot on negative film stock). The ending is also effective.
While not as well-known or iconic as The Fly - there are no humanoid flies in the flick - Curse of the Fly also lacks much of the cheesiness of the earlier films. On its own, I would call it an above-average horror story, well worth checking out.
Were they mutations? I had thought that they were scars from radiation burns. But I could be wrong. I only saw it once, probably when I was in elementary school or junior high. I don’t remember loving it or hating it, but I did find it intriguing.
I saw the Lost World at a cheap movie theatre on a Tuesday night. I think that I paid less than $2 to see it. To this day, I still feel that I overpaid to see that terrible film.
The scene where Jeff Goldblum’s daughter does her gymnastics routine, on the conveniently spaced poles, took me completely out of the film.
When I first saw Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure during my early teen years, I have to admit that my friends and I loved it. Maybe I thought I was too cool by the time Big Top Pee-Wee came along, but all I could think about when I saw it was how lame it was.
Hell, nobody does, the 1st time you see it at least. I saw it as a 12year old in 1971 when “2001: A Space Odyssey” played at our suburban Ohio theater. It had one of those big old style screens, which are 4sure the best way for tripping on the psychedelic Stargate sequence because I sure as hell didn’t understand what was going on in this movie’s storyline either. Then a couple years later I found a copy of Arthur C. Clarke’s novelization of the film & reading that was the key; he and Stanley Kubrick collaborated on the screenplay but it was based on Clarke’s sci-fi short story "The Sentinel’', referring the mysterious obelisk found on the moon. In Clarke’s novel, what is happening in the Stargate sequence, Bowman in the fancy room and the Starchild of the finale are all specifically explained. Find a copy at your local library, it’s a very well-written and eye-opening book
I have to disagree. I’m not saying it’s a great movie or even close to being as good as the first. But any horror movie that has a scene as creepy and disturbing as this isn’t a bad movie. In my opinion one of the most effective horror scenes ever filmed.
I don’t think that Sam Raimi’s Darkman qualifies as a “great” film, but it was a fun, interesting excursion into comic book/superhero -type stuff made by Raimi long before he made his Spiderman films. It starred Liam Neeson as the title character.
They made two direct-to-video sequels, Darkman II : The Return of Durant and Darkman III: Die, Darkman, Die!. Neither had Raimi or Neeson, and the fact that they both went strat to video tells you something about their quality. Arnold Vosloo (who would go on to play The Mummy in Stephen Sommers’ first two Mummy films or Universal) took over for Liam Neeson (well, under those bandages, it could’ve been anybody).
Larry Drake, who played the heavy in the original, returned for the sequels, although his character Durant had been pretty clearly killed in the original. That’s the kind of thing that happens in second-rate sequels.
I’m not sure exactly how bad the Rocky Horror sequel, Shock Treatment was because it is so forgettable. I know I saw it, but I can’t remember a single thing about it; not even a song.
