Fiend without a Face - Criterion Collection
by Arthur Crabtree
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Actor: Gil Winfield, Marshall Thompson, Michael Balfour, Shane Cordell, Terry KilburnDirector: Arthur Crabtree
Brand: IMAGE ENT.
Cinematographer: Lionel Banes
Editor: R.Q. McNaughton
Producer: John Croydon
Producer: Richard Gordon
Producer: Ronald Kinnoch
Writer: Amelia Reynolds Long
Writer: Herbert J. Leder
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.66:1
Running Time: 74 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-01-30
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Product features:
- A scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters (complete with spinal-cord tails!) who terrorize an American military base in this nightmarish chiller, directed by ARTHUR CRABTREE ("Horrors of the Black Museum"). This outstanding sci-fi/horror hybrid is a special effects bonanza, and a high-water mark in British genre filmmaking. Format: DVD MOVIE
DVD Reviews of Fiend without a Face - Criterion Collection
DVD Review: Beware of the Invisible Flying Brains (with spinal columns)
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw this movie many time when I was a kid on Metromedia 5's(now Fox 5) "Creature Features" in the late sixties and early to mid seventies, and I alway's enjoyed it.
As per usual with Criterion the extra's include the producer's commentary on how this movie came together and his remeberences of the stars of this feature and a couple of other features that were made at or around the same time.
If you're a fan of 50's horror movies thaen this is the film for you-good story,fine acting and sturdy direction make this movie a winner!
DVD Review: Great movie - scary brain monsters attack !
Summary: 5 Stars
A favorite 50s B movie about invisible Brains and Spinal Cords that choke its victims. Marshall Thompson is the hero. The monsters do not appear until the end, so the suspense of unseen monster is there. If they were shown any sooner, the movie would have lost its creepy feel. When they do appear the SPFX are great for their day. The brain designs are fantastic ! And its gory when the brains are shot at ,etc. If you are someone who likes 50s B monster movies, this is above a lot of them. The Criterion DVD is just a beautiful transfer & is easily worth owning. A great movie with a great transfer. I wish they would lower their prices, but the transfers are splendid. Highly recommendedDVD Review: One of the Best!
Summary: 5 Stars
Nuclear powered canabilistic vampiric brains created by a mad scientist with a babe for an assistant just waiting to be won by the wrongly accused misunderstood military commander. How can you go wrong?DVD Review: The flight of the brains
Summary: 3 Stars
I remember years ago when I saw this as a child, this movie completely freaked me out and scared me so much. For years I didn't know the name of it, and I never saw it again even though I faithfully watched "The Creature Feature" each Saturday night through my growing years. Recently I decided it would be fun to collect the classic sci-fi 'monster' movies and I thought of this one. Google is awesome, as that's how I found it. Overall, the movie isn't exactly one that will put you on the edge of your seat, (unless you're under the age of 10) but there is charm to this and all these classics. The scientist in the movie, of course, creates something he wishes he hadn't, and all chaos breaks out after that. The typical male hero comes in to rescue the day, and falls in love with some gal who is the helpless victim. The "creature" (aka the flying brains) is great once you can finally see it. Gotta love those swishing tails / spinal cords. I did about crack up hearing the noise they make when they shoot them. They sputter and sound a lot like an old Model T engine that can't get going. Overall, I enjoyed the movie as I do all those old black and white "monster" movies. The part I love the best is there's no cuss words, no nude scenes, etc. - just good guys fighting (and always winning) against evil. If you're collecting these kinds of movies, you have to add this one to your collection. With all the "monsters" that were created back in the 50's horror/monster movies, there are no other movies with flying brains in it that's for sure!
DVD Review: best brain monstermovie..& the name says it all...
Summary: 3 Stars
or 3.5 stars, good original movie w/ 2 cool scenes of action and the long final 3rd of best action. back then-as i was a kid-it seemed almost real w/ a real affect on me.
best brain monsta movie ive seen of the pick. monster action i remember: brief opener after the fact soldier or security" down, barn scene of 2, the mayorial house and the fabulous long grand finale. good premise and creature fx.
Description of Fiend without a Face - Criterion Collection
A scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters (complete with spinal-cord tails!) who terrorize an American military base in this nightmarish chiller, directed by Arthur Crabtree (Horrors of the Black Museum). This outstanding sci-fi/horror hybrid is a special effects bonanza, and a high-water mark in British genre filmmaking.Fiend Without a Face contains one of the most indelible images to emerge from sci-fi/horror movies of the atomic age: malevolent human brains, creeping like caterpillars on spinal-cord tails, choking the life out of their helpless victims! If that weren't enough to make any genre enthusiast drool with sick delight, the movie's also got an above-average plot (as B-movies go) and made genre history as an international success, independently produced in England, set in Canada, starring an American (Marshall Thompson), with magnificently grotesque special effects created in Germany!
The mystery begins near an American Air Force base in Manitoba, where unexplainable deaths are somehow connected to the base's atomic reactor, which is being used to power an experiment in advanced long-distance radar. Thompson (who later starred in the TV series Daktari) plays Major Cummings, who discovers that the lethal monsters--slurping, unseen "mental vampires"--are actually the horrific byproduct of thought-control experiments conducted by hapless, retired professor (echoes of Forbidden Planet's "monster from the Id"). Once visible, the fiendish brains are everywhere, attacking our heroes from every angle (in a scene that may have inspired Night of the Living Dead), and sputtering puddles of blood when riddled by bullets. This climactic scene--a triumph of latex rubber fiends, eerie sound effects, and stop-motion animation--was a gory breakthrough in 1958, and it's still a worthy precursor to every gross-out monster movie that followed in its trendsetting wake. Beware the faceless fiends! --Jeff Shannon
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