Fiend Without a Face (1958)
- Directed by
- Arthur Crabtree
- Genre
- horror film, science fiction film, monster film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 92 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A scientist at a remote air base uses atomic energy to turn thought waves into invisible monsters. The creatures eventually become visible and attack people by strangling them with their spinal cords.
creepytenseatmosphericdatedcampyunsettlingslow-burnmacabre
What happens
Fiend Without a Face is a 1958 independently made British black-and-white science fiction-horror film drama directed by Arthur Crabtree, and starring Marshall Thompson, Kynaston Reeves, Michael Balfour, and Kim Parker. It was produced by John Croydon and Richard Gordon for Amalgamated Productions. The screenplay by Herbert J. Leder was based upon Amelia Reynolds Long's 1930 short story "The Thought Monster", originally published in the March 1930 issue of Weird Tales magazine. The film was released in the U.K. by Eros Films; in the U.S. it was released in June 1958 by MGM as a double feature with The Haunted Strangler (1958). A scientist on an air base in Canada experiments with the materialisation of thought waves through atomic energy, which ultimately take the form of malevolent invisible killer brains, which then materialize as flying brains with attached spinal columns and eyestalks, strangling people with their spinal cords. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
More like this
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
The Strange World of Planet X (1958)
The Fly (1958)
Frankenstein 1970 (1958)
The Trollenberg Terror (1958)
Tales of Frankenstein (1958)
X the Unknown (1956)
Monster on the Campus (1958)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.