Return of the Fly is a 1959 American horror science-fiction film and sequel to The Fly (1958). It is the second installment in The Fly film series . It was released in 1959 as a double feature with The Alligator People . It was directed by Edward Bernds . Unlike the previous film, Return of the Fly was shot in black and white .
21-461: Static Age is the third studio album by the American horror punk band Misfits , recorded in 1978. Although it was the first album the band ever recorded, it was not released in its entirety until 1996. In August 1977 The Misfits released their debut single " Cough/Cool " on Blank Records , a label operated by the band's lead vocalist Glenn Danzig . Several months later Mercury Records issued
42-704: A Pere Ubu record on their own Blank Records imprint, unaware that Danzig held a trademark on the name. The parties came to a settlement, with Danzig accepting thirty hours of studio time for his band in exchange for the rights to the Blank Records name. In January and February 1978 the Misfits, then consisting of Danzig, guitarist Franché Coma , bassist Jerry Only , and drummer Mr. Jim , recorded seventeen songs at C.I. Recordings in New York City with engineer and producer Dave Achelis. Due to time constraints,
63-464: A disc with all fourteen Static Age tracks that had been mixed in 1978. The remaining three tracks, "She", "Spinal Remains", and "In the Doorway", were mixed by Alan Douches and Tom Bejgrowicz on February 24, 1997, at West West Side Music and were included when Static Age was finally released as a standalone album that July. "In the Doorway" had never before been released, as it had remained unmixed on
84-499: A fight ensuing and Phillipe being knocked out. Holmes hides Phillipe the same way he did the agent, but in a twist of malice he catches a fly and adds it to the transporter with him. François re-materializes Phillipe, but with a giant fly head, arm and leg (whereas the tiny fly has his head, arm and leg). The fly-headed Phillipe runs into the night, tracking down and killing Max. He waits for Holmes to arrive and kills him, too, then returns home, where Inspector Beecham has found and captured
105-834: A particular dialogue scene, actor David Frankham rather conspicuously handles a cane, which closely resembles the wolf-head walking stick famously utilized in Universal's film, The Wolf Man (1941). The script of the film was written specifically to use the standing sets from The Fly (1958), on the Fox lot in Westwood. The film was finished in March 1959 and released as a double bill with The Alligator People in July. Shout! Factory's 2019 Blu-ray release "The Fly Collection" includes all five Fly films plus new audio commentaries. Return of
126-480: Is bad, no one understands/She walked in in silence, never spoke a word/She's got a rich daddy, she's her daddy's girl". "Hollywood Babylon" borrows its title from Kenneth Anger 's 1959 book Hollywood Babylon . Early in his amateur career, Mike Diana , who would later become the first American artist to be convicted of obscenity in the United States, produced a 1988 comics magazine called Angelfuck , which
147-516: Is the reason that the President's dead/You gotta suck, suck, Jackie, suck". Although the subject of "She" is not mentioned in the lyrics, Misfits associate Eerie Von noted in The Misfits box set that the song was about Patty Hearst . The lyrics reference Hearst's participation in a San Francisco bank robbery in 1974: "She walked out with empty arms, machine gun in her hand/She is good and she
168-780: The "Bullet" single in June 1978 on Danzig's newly created label Plan 9 Records (the same four tracks, along with a remixed version of "Last Caress", were reissued on the Beware EP in January 1980). While on tour in Canada that October, guitarist Franché Coma abruptly quit the band, followed by drummer Mr. Jim at the tour's conclusion. With the band's future far from certain, the Static Age recordings were shelved indefinitely. Danzig recruited new members Bobby Steele and Joey Image and
189-651: The Fly Vincent Price was the only returning cast member from the original. It was intended that Herbert Marshall reprise his role as the police inspector, but due to illness he was replaced by John Sutton . The film was followed by a second sequel, Curse of the Fly (1965). Now an adult, Phillipe Delambre is determined to vindicate his father by successfully completing the experiment he had worked on. His uncle François refuses to help. Phillipe hires Alan Hinds from Delambre Frere and uses his own finances, but
210-430: The Fly features a commentary by co-star David Frankham and another by horror film historian Tom Weaver. On Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 38% based on 13 reviews , with a weighted average rating of 4.8/10. Author and film critic Leonard Maltin awarded the film two and a half out of four stars, calling it "[an] adequate sequel to The Fly ". Horror punk band The Misfits pay tribute to
231-476: The Misfits shifted their style away from the traditional punk rock of the Static Age sessions to a more horror film-inspired direction. None of the remaining Static Age tracks were released during the early era of the band, though a re-recorded version of " Teenagers from Mars " appeared on the " Horror Business " single in 1979, and a live version of "We Are 138" appeared on the Evilive EP in 1982. After
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#1732791835825252-472: The Phillipe-headed fly. Both are placed in the device together and successfully reintegrated, restoring Phillipe to his normal human form. Kurt Neumann, who directed The Fly , died in 1958 so Robert L. Lippert , who financed the original, had to find a new director. He hired director Edward Bernds and producer Bernard Glasser, who had done Space Master X-7 for Lippert. The budget was more than
273-464: The band recorded the songs live in the studio with only a few takes and very few overdubs . Ultimately fourteen of the seventeen tracks produced during the sessions were assembled for the Misfits' anticipated debut album, to be titled Static Age . However, the band were unable to find a record label interested in releasing the album. Instead, the Misfits released four of the new tracks (" Bullet ", " We Are 138 ", " Attitude ", and "Hollywood Babylon") as
294-438: The band's breakup in 1983, Danzig overdubbed guitar and bass tracks on nine of the unreleased Static Age tracks ("Static Age", "TV Casualty", "Hybrid Moments", "Come Back", "Some Kinda Hate", "Theme for a Jackal", "Angelfuck", "Spinal Remains", and "She"), releasing these new versions on the 1985 Legacy of Brutality compilation album. Misfits followed in 1986, reissuing the tracks "Bullet" and "Hollywood Babylon" as well as
315-500: The film's title, actors, and characters: "Return of the Fly, Return of the Fly/With Vincent Price /Helen Delambre, Helen Delambre/François, François/Cecile, Cecile". " Bullet " references the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy , with sexually explicit lyrics directed at his wife Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis : "Texas is an outrage when your husband is dead/Texas is an outrage when they pick up his head/Texas
336-412: The funds run out before the equipment is complete. When Phillipe threatens to sell his half of Delambre Frere, François relents and funds the completion. After some adjustments, they use the transporter to "store" and later re-materialize test animals. Alan Hinds turns out to be Ronald Holmes, an industrial spy. Holmes tries to sell the secrets to a shadowy cohort named Max. Before Holmes can get away with
357-404: The master tapes for nineteen years. The album also included an unlisted eighteenth track consisting of a collage of studio banter and outtakes. Several of the songs on Static Age were based on horror films and American historical events from the 1960s and 1970s. "Return of the Fly" borrows its title from the 1959 film Return of the Fly , and most of the song's lyrics consist of repetition of
378-480: The normal $ 125,000 for Lippert productions. He says that the budget was $ 275,000 – $ 25,000 of which went to Vincent Price's fee. Bernds says his original draft of the film incorporated footage from the first Fly film but they were not allowed to use it. He also said Vincent Price insisted on reading the script before signing on to the film. Once he did, he objected when Bernds cut down on some of his scenes for length. Filming started on 2 February 1959. During
399-486: The overdubbed version of "She". Collection II (1995) reissued "We Are 138" and "Attitude", the remixed version of "Last Caress", and the previously unreleased "Return of the Fly". With the release of the Misfits box set in 1996, the complete original Static Age album saw the light of day for the first time on CD, eighteen years after the songs were recorded. The box set included all three compilation albums as well as
420-479: The papers, a British agent confronts him. Holmes knocks him out and uses the transporter to "store" the body. When rematerialized, the agent has the paws of a guinea pig that had been disintegrated earlier, and the guinea pig has human hands. Holmes kills the rodent and puts the dead agent in his car, which he sends into the Saint Lawrence River . Phillipe confronts Holmes about all the oddities, with
441-649: Was named after the song on this album. The indie rock band Texas Is the Reason later derived their name from the lyrics of "Bullet". All tracks are written by Glenn Danzig Horror punk Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 253917425 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:03:55 GMT Return of
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