FIEND WITHOUT A FACE
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| Not Rated
| | Copyright 1957 Producers Associates.
| | Reviewed by Andrew Borntreger on 'a long time ago'
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- Major Jeff Cummings - Workaholic and second in command at the base
- Barbara Griselle - Young woman who has been assisting Professor Walgate with his work. Her brother is the first to die.
- Professor Walgate - Brilliant scientist, through experiments with brain waves and radar he created the monsters. Has his skull drained by three Fiends.
- Colonel Butler - Commanding Officer of the base, darn good at shooting hopping brains with a .45 pistol.
- Peterson - Man in charge of the nuclear plant, Fiend chow.
- Howard Gibbons - Local constable who seems to have a thing for Barbara, loses part of his gray matter.
- Captain Chester - Security Officer, doesn't have much to do.
- The Adams - Old man and woman, evidently the Fiends like a little prune juice now and then.
- The Fiends Without Faces - Evil thoughts given flesh, they feed on human brains and look like the same with a spinal column for locomotion. Seem to be filled with raspberry preserves, but they melt into pudding after the nuclear plant is destroyed.
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| The studio certainly saved a bundle in special effects with this story, prepare to watch multiple people being strangled by invisible monsters for the first hour. This is achieved by the person in question screaming, throwing their head back, and clawing at their neck before falling over. In the middle of nowhere (Canada) the United States is conducting tests of a high power radar system. Using nuclear energy and beaming that power to boost the scanning range of special planes. Planes which mysteriously transform into an entirely different aircraft when affected by this nuclear radiation! That's actually a goof, sure sounds cool though. Problem is, soon after starting any test they experience a mysterious power drain, even upping the reactor output fails to help. Major Cummings has other problems besides being the only officer on this base who does anything, local residents are being killed. Autopsies performed on the bodies reveal a gruesome fact, the brain and spinal column are missing, drained through two holes at the base of the skull. His other issue is love, well lust probably, he managed to find the one attractive girl in this expanse of Canada - Barbara. She's pretty enough and there is even a shower scene, nothing like seeing a girl in just her towel to get your blood boiling. (Probably more effective before the 60s.) A very enjoyable movie, including the sound Fiends make when feeding - it's somebody smacking their lips. |
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| Things I Learned From This Movie: | |
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- There are an enormous number of Irish people living in Canada, accents and all.
- A tiny woman can easily break up two grown men fighting.
- Mobile brains are clumsy.
- Mental retards are not welcome at town meetings.
- Mausoleums are airtight.
- Women were awfully perky back in the 50s.
- Left to his own devices an old man will begin applying electric shocks to his skull. (Assisted living ad?)
- "You are what you eat." applies to monsters.
- Brainsucking monsters are filled with raspberry preserves.
- The best way to shut down a nuclear reactor is with dynamite.
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- 7 mins - That girl (playing the nurse) never made it as an actress.
- 13 mins - Wait, the plane changed! It was a B52 Stratofortress, but now it's a B47 Stratojet - even an old man who applies electric shocks to his head would know the difference.
- 13 mins - Nice hairdo Pete.
- 19 mins - Is that dead body glowing or something, where are we getting this weird lighting?
- 21 mins - Shower scene! Wait, it's the 1950s, damn...
- 26 mins - Those sure are professionally bound books, what did you use to attach the labels, white glue?
- 34 mins - Bad dubbing.
- 53 mins - Hold on to your stitches, it's "Mad Scientist Confession" time.
- 62 mins - Hehehe! That's what they look like!
- 66 mins - Chow time for the Fiends, I wonder if brains taste like chicken?
- 70 mins - Oh, that one was filled with marmalade.
- 71 mins - One bundle of dynamite did that to a nuclear plant? And no adverse effects?
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| | Audio clips in wav format | SOUNDS | Starving actors speak out | |
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| File | Dialog |  | fiendface1.wav
| Col Butler: "Where has the brain and spinal cord gone?"
Coroner: "I'm a doctor Colonel, not a detective."
| | fiendface2.wav
| Gibbons: "You found that GI killer yet? You know, you'd be far better off hunting him down instead of tomcatting around here."
| | fiendface3.wav
| Prof Walgate: "I now know that I have created a mental vampire. A fiend!"
| | fiendface4.wav
| Prof Walgate: "I believe it feeds on the radiation from your atomic plant, and that it's evil!"
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| Click for a larger image | IMAGES | Scenes from the movie | |
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