Fiend Without a Face
“New Horrors! Mad Science Spawns Evil Fiends! ... Taking form before your horrified eyes!”
Certified Crap. CrapScore 58, rated by 1 admin.
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Invisible attacks trouble a military base until the threat finally becomes visible, and then wonderfully disgusting. Flying brains with trailing spinal cords are a strong answer to any monster-design brief. The investigation takes time, but the stop-motion creatures reward the wait with a very unusual siege.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 5.5/10
- Plot
- 8/10
- Effects
- 2/10
- Dialogue
- 5.5/10
- Rewatchability
- 8/10
“Thinking outside the skull has gone much too far.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 58
Synopsis and movie facts
An American airbase in Canada provokes resentment from the nearby residents after fallout from nuclear experiments at the base are blamed for a recent spate of disappearances. A captain from the airbase is assigned to investigate, and begins to suspect that an elderly British scientist who lives near the base and conducts research in the field of mind over matter knows more than he is letting on..
- Released
- 1958
- Directed by
- Arthur Crabtree
- Running time
- 74 min
Starring
- Marshall Thompson as Major Jeff Cummings
- Kynaston Reeves as Prof. R. E. Walgate
- Kim Parker as Barbara Griselle
- Stanley Maxted as Col. Butler
- Terry Kilburn as Capt. Al Chester
- James Dyrenforth as Mayor Hawkins
- Robert MacKenzie as Const. Howard Gibbons
- Peter Madden as Dr. Bradley
Research behind this pick
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- Film reference · themoviedb.org
TMDB identity and credits retrieved on 2026-11-10: Fiend Without a Face (1958), directed by Arthur Crabtree. The importer rechecks identity, poster, synopsis, release date, runtime, genres and cast against live metadata.
- Review · badmovies.org
The review enjoys the fiends' grotesque appearance and accompanying sounds while describing the lengthy investigation before they become visible. Full review text retained from earlier catalogue research and consulted again on 2026-11-10; no claim of a fresh page download.
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