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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 | Size | Dialog |  | fiendface1.wav
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| Col Butler: "Where has the brain and spinal cord gone?"
Coroner: "I'm a doctor Colonel, not a detective."
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| Gibbons: "You found that GI killer yet? You know, you'd be far better off hunting him down instead of tomcatting around here."
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| Prof Walgate: "I now know that I have created a mental vampire. A fiend!"
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| Prof Walgate: "I believe it feeds on the radiation from your atomic plant, and that it's evil!"
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Reply #1. Posted on June 18, 1999, 10:25:31 PM by fred
Riveting....saw it several indelible times as a kid...still creeps me out...really was too fascinating to not watch..also recall strange guys with glowing eyes and awful wrap around sun glasses...or is that just me wishful childs mind playing tricks on me..? This movie just RUNS WILD!!
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Reply #2. Posted on November 05, 1999, 10:09:59 PM by Steve Gory Horror Fan
Forget the tacky dialog, and the absurd
"monsters-feeding-off-the-atomic-radiation" plot,
as well as the ridiculous invisibility of the
fiends during the first two-thirds of this movie.
Just sit back and look at these elements in a
humorous light (by today's scientific standards)
and enjoy the ride, slow as it it is in the
beginning.
Once the gruesome critters become visible,
and the special effects kick in and the gore
begins to fly, tighten your lap-bar and be
prepared for some surprisingly horrific jolts of
fright. The realism of the visual and audio
effects, way ahead of their time, truely convinces
the viewer that these squirming, slimey monsters
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Reply #3. Posted on November 06, 1999, 08:20:09 PM by stevegates@mediaone.net
RE "Steve Gory Horror Fan" review:
Please correct the posted text of my review!
The last two words ("are alive.") were not
included. The last part of the final sentence
should read "...that these squirming, slimey
monsters ARE ALIVE. (Caps mine)
Thanks! (and thanks for a great web sit
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Reply #4. Posted on November 25, 2006, 05:09:49 PM by Bill
I was 8 years old when I saw this movie at the theater, and was horrified by it. I had nightmares for years afterwards. On hot summer nights I slept with blankets over my head, and was wet with sweat night after night. It was terrible. There was no one I could talk to about it. Now of coarse it seems foolish looking at what I was terrified by. Don't ever let a child see this movie. I tremble thinking what the kid would go through if they saw this.
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Reply #5. Posted on March 31, 2000, 04:19:29 PM by Chris K.
Definately NOT CHEESEY! FIEND WITHOUT A FACE is an exelent British film with a good plot, solid performances, clear black and white photography, and better-than-STAR WARS special effects. Watch it! You will be suprised how good this film is. NOTE TO READER: Film fans consider FIEND WITHOUT A FACT to be the first gore film. It is not. BLOOD FEAST (1963) is the first gore film. Just thought I would let you know.
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Reply #6. Posted on June 26, 2000, 05:45:17 PM by MARK
I LIVE IN EASTERN CANADA AND ITS TRUE, THIS PLACE IS FULL OF IRISH, SCOTISH AND GERMAN HERITAGE! ACCENTS AND ALL! MOVIES CAN TEACH YOU THINGS ABOUT WIERD ISOLATED PLACES FULL OF DRUNKEN HICKS!
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Reply #7. Posted on July 27, 2000, 09:04:06 PM by netwOrm
I fell in love with 'Fiend Without A Face' at age 7 - in the days when there was no colour TV here in the UK. The sound effects and the stop-motion animation in this film are truly unmissable. A true Masterpiece!
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Reply #8. Posted on August 08, 2000, 04:33:47 PM by Jesus
Yee blessing of thy movie shalt be divine.
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Little girls will happily substitute a big, ugly toad for a doll. 