is removed. Instead, his son, apparently a different character from the boy Philippe Delambre depicted in The Fly, was able to put both the altered man and the altered fly back into the teleportation chamber and successfully reverse the integration, as was done with an adult Philippe in Return of the Fly. The dialogue within Curse of the Fly contains no mention of Philippe, although a photograph shown in the film, which is supposed to be of Andre in his altered form from The Fly, is actually a production still from Philippe's transformation in Return of the Fly. Spalding later said: "It wasn't all that bad a script. As a matter of fact, Don Sharp said the opening ten pages, where the girl is coming out of the insane asylum, was the best opening he'd ever had on film". Harry Spalding said he wrote the lead for "a Claude Rains kind of guy" and was unhappy to get Brian Donlevy. Spalding thought this affected Don Sharp's confidence in the film. Don Sharp later said he felt the script "wasn't good enough" and that he only took the job because he had been working for a long time as a second unit director on Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines and was desperate to direct again. Despite it, he said there were some strong sequences. Reception Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World Movie Reviews, grading it B-, cited the film having an eerie atmosphere but called it "disappointing as it never is exciting—just too much chatter over pseudo-science". The film was a box office disappointment. See also List of American films of 1965 References External links Curse of the Fly at BFI Curse of the Fly at TCMDB 1965 films 1960s monster movies 1965 horror films 1960s science fiction horror films American black-and-white films American monster movies American science fiction horror films American sequel films British black-and-white films British monster movies British science fiction horror films British sequel films 1960s English-language films Films about shapeshifting Films directed by Don Sharp Films set in Quebec Mad scientist films 20th Century Fox films Teleportation in films The Fly (franchise) 1960s American films 1960s British films