Fifteen
years have passed after Andre Delambre's
experiment with his transmission in which
he was turned into a half fly and was
killed. His son Philippe (Brett Halsey)
wants to learn his father's work and to
make his own transmission although his
Uncle Francois (Vincent Price) almost
forbids him to do so but he talks him
into helping him.
The transmitter still has terrible
results and a greedy man named Ronald
Holmes (David Franham) knocks Philippe
unconcious during a brawl after he
discovers on what this transmission does
in which Ronald is getting a big wage by
a man named Max Berthold (Dan Seymour) to
show him this device. Ronald puts
Phillipe into the transmitter with a fly
inside as he becomes half human and half
fly which causes some dangerous effects
as this creature will seek revenge by
killing the one's who tuirned him into
this thing.
A good beginning of the film with a
camera shot looking down on a funeral
ceremony.
There's also a good conversation between Francois and Philippe in
the science lab where the horrible
incident has happened as there's a good
discussion between Francois trying
to convince him not to recreate the
transporter and Philippe insisting
that he does which looked quite good and
the negative energy especially from Francois fearing for his own nephew.
A good conversation seqeunce between Ronald Holmes acting tempting as well as
insulting towards Max Berthold while
he's eating a lobster in which this scene looked like a mobster type of
setting between the two of them with good
shots on them having a discussion.
A nice close up shot on Philippe nervous staring at a fly
zooming around as well as Ronald catching it and showing it to him.
There's a brawling scene between the two
of them rolling around and struggling
with one another which there's good angle
shots around the scenery.
A nice close up shot on Philippe in the transporter device with a fly on
his face.
There's a nice moment with Max looking around silently in his house
after hearing a sound which looked spooky
and then Philippe coming up towards him
ready to attack as well as a good camera
shot closing in on Max screaming in terror.
There's some good discussions between Francois in a hospital bed acting weak and then
getting anxious with certain situations
with Inspector Beecham about
encountering a fly. There's also great
shots on the two of them talking.
Many good shots on Philippe's feet limping showing one of his legs as a
fly leg.
A nice scene with him entering a
room and bending over Cecile Bonnard sleeping in her bed and then
bending low with a nice close up shot on
him holding her hand. There's also a nice
effective shot on her waking up and then
looking shocked along with a perfect
scream.
Bottom line is that some people may
think I'm crazy for having a better
review on this one but in my opinion
there's a bit more terror to this one and
the story explains itself more in this
one. Plus it was done in black and white
in which it looks entertaining watching
an oldie horror.
There's some good criminals in this one
as well as many revenge scene's too.
Still the story was a bit slow not
bringing a whole lot to the set. But in
it's time this movie was terrifying like
the first one. To me the movie is quite
dated although I do enjoy dated one's I'm
not a fan of the Fly movies. It's not for
everyone. It was cool the story took
place years later with the little boy
full grown and wanted to know about his
father's creation which started the whole
nightmare. I give credit for that as well
as some certain silent moments and then
the terror happens too.
The acting is
still very good as Vincent Price
(Francois Delambre) really showed his frights and concerns in
this one and also does well when he's
weak in pain during some spots of the
story and acting anxious too. He proves
that he never goes worng while he
portrays a character keeping up the great
energy with what he does.
Brett Halsey (Philippe Delambre) plays the older
character of Philippe in this sequel
since it's supposed to take place many
years later when this one was made a year
after the previous one. He shows nice
disturbed reactions and brings out his
anxiety with his aggressions perfectly.
He also knew how to act eager too with
his late father's creation on the
transporter. A perfect freaked out reaction on
him during a certain part of the story and then getting aggressive with
him which really looked energetically
well performed. Shows a nice scared
expression on his face in another part too. Then there's a
good tumbling reaction on him after he
is transformed in the other device slowly
walking away.
David Frankham (Ronald Holmes) brings on a perfect
wicked and evil charm with his
temptations on the big screen showing
terrific characteristics in the film and
had the right sneering looks for it too.
He stood out the most in the film and one
of the best actors too.
Dan Seymour (Max Berthold) had the perfect looks
and a great greedy attitude as a scumbag
coroner at his funeral home. He just knew
on how to act blunt and bringing his
lines very straight forward as if he was
a Mafia type of some sort.
There's more weepy violin
playing with lots of strong trombone
music for the terror on the half human
half fly scene plus we hear some drum
booming sounds too in certain spots which
was all done by once again Paul
Sawtell with some help by Bert
Shefter which shows there were more
of the sound effects on this one than in
the previous. |
