History Film / TheFly1958

* BittersweetEnding: André is forced to commit suicide because his fly components are degrading his human mind and they can't find the fly with human components. At the climax of the movie, Inspector Charas sees and gives a MercyKill to the fly-human just as it is about to be devoured by the spider. However, this convinces him that Hélène is not a murderer and, with François the brother-in-law, he is able to concoct a plea-bargain that lets her avoid being hanged or condemned to the insane asylum. At the very end of the movie, Hélène and Philippe are moving on from the traumatic loss of André, and it is implied that she is falling in love with François, who had always loved her from afar.

* OnlyFleshIsSafe: The teleportation device only worked on non-living things -- until the protagonist [[GoneHorriblyRight made a breakthrough]].

* ResizedVocals: At the climax, the transformed fly with a human head has an extremely high-pitched voice as it screams for help. Of course, ArtisticLicenseBiology comes into play as the fly's head may have been a human's, but the fly's body didn't have the type of lungs that would move air over the human vocal cords. Then again, the fact that it was trapped in a spiderweb and about to be eaten by the spider probably provided a lot of motivation for it to defy biology.

* TeleporterAccident: It's not like André didn't have some warnings. The ashtray comes back with the "Made in Japan" label reversed, and the cat disappears. But he thinks he's got that all fixed, so he gets into the transporter...along with a fly.

* ThatPoorCat: The first test is unsuccessful. In the original short story, when André, at Hélène's urging, goes through the machine a second time in a futile attempt to unscramble things, bits of the cat get mixed in too (though a fly head with a cat nose and ears would've probably seemed more ludicrous than horrible).

* CanadaEh: The setting is changed from France to Montreal.

->''"HEEEELP MEEEE! HEEEEEEEEELP MEEEEEEEEE!"''

* BittersweetEnding: André is forced to commit suicide because his fly components are degrading his human mind and they can't find the fly with human components. At the climax of the movie, Inspector Charas sees and gives a MercyKill to the fly-human just as it is about to be devoured by the spider. However, this convinces him that André's wife is not a murderer and, with François the brother-in-law, he is able to concoct a plea-bargain that lets her avoid being hanged or condemned to the insane asylum. At the very end of the movie, the mother and son are moving on from the traumatic loss of the scientist, and it is implied that she is falling in love with François, who had always loved her from afar.
* BizarreAlienSenses: During TheReveal in which his wife pulls off his hood, André's POV is briefly shown, and he sees dozens of simultaneous images of her screaming face through his fly-head's compound eyes.

* TheReveal: André hides his fly-head from everyone (the audience included) under a hood, until his frustrated wife pulls it off during an argument.

* ThatPoorCat: The first test is unsuccessful. In the original short story, when the scientist, at his wife's urging, goes through the machine a second time in a futile attempt to unscramble things, bits of the cat get mixed in too (though a fly head with a cat nose and ears would've probably seemed more ludicrous than horrible).

* EvilHand: The fly's appendage that replaces the scientist's hand becomes increasingly rebellious as his intellect frays.

* ResizedVocals: At the climax, the transformed fly with a human head has an extremely high-pitched voice as it screams for help. Of course, ArtisticLicenseBiology comes into play as the fly's head may have been a human's, but the fly's body didn't have the type of lungs that would move air over the human vocal cords. Then again, the fact that it was trapped in a spiderweb and about to be eaten by the spider probably provided a lot of motivation for him to defy biology.

* BittersweetEnding: André the scientist is forced to commit suicide because his fly components are degrading his human mind and they can't find the fly with human components. At the climax of the movie, the inspector sees and gives a MercyKill to the fly-human just as it is about to be devoured by the spider. However, this convinces him that the scientist's wife is not a murderer and, with François the brother-in-law, he is able to concoct a plea-bargain that lets her avoid being hanged or condemned to the insane asylum. At the very end of the movie, the mother and son are moving on from the traumatic loss of the scientist, and it is implied that she is falling in love with François, who had always loved her from afar.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: André's wife Hélène commits suicide in the original short story, while in the film, she gets better from her guilt (though she subsequently undergoes SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome in ''Film/ReturnOfTheFly''.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: André's wife Hélène commits suicide in the original short story, while in the film, she gets better from her guilt.