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I got a number of "creature feature" collections for my birthday this year… Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, etc. I’m delving into The FlyCollection right now and just finished the “classic” Fly films… The Fly, Return of the Fly and Curse of the Fly. Virtually a treatise on diminishing returns, if I’m being completely honest. The Fly is, of course, a classic. Released in 1958, it stars Vincent Price and David Hedison (credited as Al Hedison in the Fly, I've always remember him as the captain on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea… apparently imprinted on my young mind at the time… LOL). It’s written by James Clavell, and the talent there shows… It’s an interesting structure for a monster movie, with the bulk of the story being told in flashback about halfway through the film. Dated as it is (effects, etc.), it still holds up pretty well, especially in comparison to its sequels. Return of the Fly is a much more standard monster movie. Price returns as the elder brot