Villain(s)  Man with fly head

Actor(s):  David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall

Brief Description  Released on July 16, 1958, The Fly is a classic sci-fi horror film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring David Hedison as scientist André Delambre, Patricia Owens as his wife Helene, and Vincent Price as his brother François. It follows a tragic atomic-age accident where a molecular teleportation experiment goes awry, merging a scientist's atoms with a common housefly.

Plot:
Unlike typical monster movies of the 1950s, The Fly unfolds structurally as a murder mystery told through a long flashback sequence. The film opens at a Montreal electronics factory, where night watchmen discover Helene Delambre (Patricia Owens) brutally crushing her husband's head and arm in a massive industrial hydraulic press. Helene freely admits to the act but refuses to give a motive, acting highly erratic and showing an obsessive, manic fixation on finding a housefly with a white head. Believing her to be insane, Inspector Charas (Herbert Marshall) and Helene’s brother-in-law, Francois Delambre (Vincent Price), trick her into confessing by pretending they have caught the white-headed fly. Helene agrees to tell the true, bizarre story of what happened in her husband's basement laboratory.

Helene recounts that her husband, Andre Delambre (David Hedison), was a brilliant scientist who invented a revolutionary matter transporter capable of disintegrating an object, transmitting it through space, and reintegrating it in a receiving booth. After initially failing with a family cat (which disappears into cosmic space completely), he successfully teleports a plate and decides he is ready for human trials—using himself as the guinea pig. As Andre steps into the disintegration chamber, a common housefly accidentally slips into the pod unnoticed. When the machine recombines their atoms, Andre emerges with his head and left arm replaced by those of a giant fly, while the fly inherits a miniature version of Andre's human head and left arm.

Shrouding his grotesque face in a black cloth and hiding his clawed hand in his pocket, Andre communicates with Helene solely by typing or using chalkboards. He explains the accident and desperately tasks her with catching the fly so they can run them through the machine together to reverse the genetic mix-up. When their young son Philippe accidentally catches and then releases the white-headed fly, Andre realizes his human mind is rapidly deteriorating into basic insect instincts. Unable to live as a monster, he destroys his laboratory equipment, burns his notes, and forces a weeping Helene to help him commit suicide using the factory's hydraulic press to ensure no one copies his dangerous work.

Back in the present, Inspector Charas dismisses Helene's story as a delusion. However, Francois and the Inspector go out into the garden and witness the tiny white-headed fly trapped in a spiderweb. In one of cinema's most famous and disturbing scenes, the tiny fly screams "Help me! Help meee!" in a high-pitched human voice as a spider crawls toward it. Horrified, Inspector Charas smashes both the spider and the fly with a rock, realizing Helene told the truth. They rule Andre's death a suicide to protect Helene from the gallows. The film serves as a modern retelling of Frankenstein or the myth of Icarus. Andre is not evil; he is driven by pure curiosity and an earnest desire to better humanity, but his carelessness brings disaster.