Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Candida It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Eric Stevenson It seems like this has become a cult favorite for a lot of people. Personally, I didn't see the appeal. I was quite interested in seeing this movie because for the longest time, it wasn't available on home video. It's a pretty rare movie, but it's really not worth looking at. It doesn't help that I haven't seen the other Fly movies. This is weird because it doesn't even feature any flies! It just seemed like it was a hard story to continue with this title! The main problem is the relationship. It's strange because this woman meets the guy and they immediately get married. She just starts the movie right away.There actually is this one really good shot in the film. It's actually the first scene and it shows a window being smashed. This is really a great shot and it's filmed beautifully. If only the rest of the film were like that. Another problem is that the film is too anti-climatic. This seemed like it would more appropriate to be featured in an episode of "Mystery Science Theater 3000". I actually did like the makeup effects in this. They do have some creative ideas. Like many movies, the main problem is that they're not used very well. **

Spikeopath The Curse Of The Fly is the third instalment of the original series of films born out of the short story written by George Langelaan. Here in this one, a vast improvement on the awful Return Of The Fly, we are with the descendants of doomed Andre Delambre from the first and best original feature film. The links and time frames are rather tenuous, but the basic core of matter transportation still remains, with obviously less than great experimentation results!. Playing out more as a science fiction thriller than a outright horror picture, Curse Of The Fly has oodles of atmosphere and a genuine feel of a tragic melodrama, it also boasts the watchable talent of Brian Donlevy as Henri Delambre. It opens with a fabulous sequence and ends with a very satisfying conclusion, while the make up effects of the creepers certainly don't embarrass the film at all. For sure there is the usual cheese that comes with this up and down genre, but as low grade genre films go, this one most definitely holds up rather well. 6/10

Thorsten-Krings I actually found this film to be the most entertaining in the original Fly trilogy. The strongest and the weakest point of the film is the writing. The main plot is not highly original: the Delambres teleport people but they don't do it very well. But the subplot is very clever. The film starts with a woman escaping from a mental insitution and seemingly nice Delambre picking her up and falling for her. Once they return to Delambres mansion roles are reversed and we realize that it is not really she who is insane but rather the Delambre clan. That is unconventiional and well executed although it could have been made more use of. The second really good aspect of the film is Don Sharp's very stylish directing, particularly the opening sequence and his use of music. All these things put the Curse of the Fly in a class well above the usual SciFi B movie. And Brian Donlevy doesn't look quite as disoriented as in his other later films.

MARIO GAUCI I found this to be not too bad, considering its rather dismal reputation; still, it's definitely a letdown as both a follow-up to the two previous FLY movies as well as WITCHCRAFT (1964; the film was made by several of the same people).The plot, at least, does try something relatively different: people can't keep changing into man/fly hybrids (accidentally or not) from picture to picture. Even so, it's not believable that two generations on from the David Hedison character in the original, the members of the Delambre (curiously mispronounced by everyone throughout!) family are still suffering the symptoms of his mutation. How is that even possible? The scientist played by Brian Donlevy is, ostensibly, a brother to Brett Halsey from RETURN OF THE FLY (1959) – where it's clearly established that Hedison only had one son; if, on the other hand, he's supposed to be the embodiment of an older Halsey, why change the name from Philippe to Henri…and let's not forget that Inspector Charas from the first film turns up again here, when he was already an old man back then?! That said, however, it's interesting that George Baker's character is made to age from time to time (given the very brief lifespan of a fly). Donlevy, then, approaches his role as if he were tackling Professor Bernard Quatermass (from the two Hammer films of the 1950s) for the third time – which isn't in itself a bad thing; his demise during the busy climax is at once ironic and amusing. Lovely leading lady Carole Gray also appeared in DEVILS OF DARKNESS the same year, which I just watched; unfortunately, even if she's seen mostly in her underwear throughout (right from the effective slow-motion credit sequence), her character is also sedated for a good part of the duration! Apart from the typically weird goings-on in a remote old mansion (sinister-looking female servant – played by Yvette Rees, the revived descendant from WITCHCRAFT – straight out of REBECCA [1940], disappearing members of the household turning up as mutants hidden away in the backgarden like something out of H.G. Wells' "The Island Of Dr.Moreau"!), as I said, the plot sees the re-appearance of the Inspector from the first film (though played by a different actor) who's still following the family 'fortunes' from afar. Incidentally, the introduction of Gray's character as mentally unstable seems an irrelevant plot point since it subsequently goes nowhere. The teleporting machine has a more streamlined design this time around (being horizontal as opposed to vertical); even if the scientists are no more careful than before – given their alarming number of failures – if anything, one feels glad that some definite progress has been made in the experiments after all this time, since characters are now able to be transported from one city to another!