RETURN OF THE FLY
Not just another sequel retread
Even though I'd heard, largely, nothing but praise for this sequel (certainly compared to the mediocre and lacking Curse of the Fly), the premise just didn't excite me too much - what I'd heard led me to merely expect the son of the fly-ified scientist in the first film to do exactly the same as his father, with exactly the same results.
Thankfully, I was wrong.
Return of the Fly has more of an accent on plot than the original film, and less on character. After his mother's death, the aforementioned son wrings the truth of his father's fate out of Uncle Francois (Vincent Price returning - note how the back of the box incorrectly states that Price played the fly-ified scientist in the original). Understandably, he develops a fear of flies, and he also tries to continue and perfect his father's work in teleportation.
Francois, of course, warns against this, but the young 'un goes ahead anyway, and even blackmails poor Francois into backing him financially. Unfortunately, one of the partners in the experiments is a corporate spy who plans to steal the plans for the machine when it's perfected.
What follows is murder, coverups, corporate espionage, duplicity, and yes, as you should already know, somebody getting fly-ified. (in fact, in one memorable scene, somebody gets guinea pig-ified. I'd have liked to have seen somebody get rabbit-ified.)
It even has one of those "...that Man was not meant to know!" lines from Price, which of course pleases me immeasurably.
Check it out, and pay no attention to that pesky Curse behind the curtain.