July 16, 2023

This Day in Halloween: Horror classic "The Fly" -- starring Vincent Price -- opens across the U.S. in 1958. / Illustration by Deanna Lim

The Fly opens across the U.S. in 1958. The horror classic stars David Hedison as a scientist whose experiments with a teleportation device go wrong when a fly enters the device with him. The film was a hit and spawned two sequels Return of the Fly in 1959 and Curse of the Fly in 1965. The 1986 remake starring Jeff Goldblum was also a hit.

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