Fiend Without a Face Movie Review

This early attempt at gore cinema works quite well, addressing the problems of nuclear power, while promising – and delivering – a real bloodbath. A paranormal atomic scientist's thoughts materialize as invisible creatures who slurp human brains right out of the skull. When the nearby reactor's power is increased, the creatures become visible, revealing themselves to be replicas of brains with spinal cords. Now they can be chopped, sliced, and shot, all on camera, allowing enormous amounts of blood to be spilled. The sound effects are also quite disgusting for both the brain-drainings and -splatterings. Great fun and lots of silliness for ‘50s sci-fi/horror fans.

1958 77m/B Marshall Thompson, Kim Parker, Terence Kilburn, Michael Balfour, Gil Winfield, Shane Cordell; D: Arthur Crabtree. VHS, LV CCB, REP, MLB