"HELP ME! PLEASE, HELP ME!"
- The climax of the film, when we see that poor fly with André's human head and left arm, trapped in a web and screaming "HELP MEEEEE!" in that tiny, high-pitched voice as a garden spider descends upon it. François tells Phillipe to go back inside the house when he spots it, and Inspector Charas mercifully puts it out of its misery by crushing both it and the spider with a stone, which was a blessing considering what would've happened. Even today, that scene is very uncomfortable to watch because it plays to our Primal Fear of being eaten alive. It might also play off for those with a serious case of arachnophobia. Just watching the spider slowly encroach the fly... Jesus Christ.Inspector Charas: As God is my witness, I saw the thing. It's unbelievable. I shall never forget that scream as long as I live.
- The scene also includes quite a bit of Fridge Horror. It's implied that André's human body retained his mind, even though it now had the head of a fly and was thus unable to communicate. That most likely meant that the fly still retained the mind of an insect, and what we heard was the screams of a creature without the capability to even understand what had happened to it, the alien senses it now possessed, or whatever remnant instincts that allowed it to formulate speech.
- Also, as the film progresses, André's mind gradually deteriorates, with his mannerisms becoming increasingly fly-like. This gives off the heavy implication that the fly's mind has become human-like, to the point where it's able to not only speak, but feel emotions.
- Even worse: if you watch carefully, you see that Inspector Charas doesn't quite make it in time.
- Worse still is how spiders eat their prey: they inject venom into their target, which liquifies the insect's insides for the spider to suck up. Now consider the terror felt by the André-headed fly when the spider is about to eat it.
- At the very least it is better that it happened to an insect who didn't have any cognitive functions or any understanding of pain, compared to André's death, where he must have felt something when the hot iron squashed him to oblivion.
- Even more Fridge Horror with a dash of Ironic Echo: both André and the fly die by being crushed to death.François: (to Charas) You've committed murder just as much as Hélène did. You killed a fly with a human head. She killed a human with a fly head. If she murdered, so did you.
- The unveiling scene, thanks to some careful direction and spectacular makeup effects, is disturbing even if you know what's coming. Particularly psychologically horrible if you imagine you were poor Hélène.
