Fiend Without a Face (1958)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.1/10   

Director:

Arthur Crabtree

Escritores:

Herbert J. Leder (screenplay)
Amelia Reynolds Long (original story)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

diciembre 1958 (UK)

Género:

Horror | Romance | Ciencia-Ficción | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

New Horrors! Mad Science Spawns Evil Fiends! ...Taking form before your horrified eyes!

Plot:

A Scientist, experimenting with telekinetic powers enhanced by a nearby nuclear power plant succeeds in creating a new form of life...

Plot Keywords:

Nuclear Power | American | Brain | Experiment | Mayor

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Horror with brains!

Reparto

Marshall Thompson	...	Major Cummings
Terry Kilburn	...	Capt. Chester (as Terence Kilburn)
Michael Balfour	...	Serg. Kasper
Gil Winfield	...	Dr. Warren
Shane Cordell	...	Nurse
Stanley Maxted	...	Col. Butler
James Dyrenforth	...	Mayor
Kim Parker	...	Barbara Griselle
E. Kerrigan Prescott	...	Atomic Engineer (as Kerrigan Prescott)
Kynaston Reeves	...	Prof. Walgate
Peter Madden	...	Dr. Bradley
Meadows White	...	Ben Adams (as R. Meadows White)
Lala Lloyd	...	Amelia Adams
Robert MacKenzie	...	Const. Gibbons
Launce Maraschal	...	Melville

También conocida como:

El monstruo sin rostre (Mexico) [es]

Duración:

USA:74 min | UK:75 min

País:

UK

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.66 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Clasificación:

Iceland:12 | West Germany:18 | USA:Approved | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | UK:X | Sweden:(Banned) | Canada:G (Quebec) | UK:PG (re-rating)

Locaciones de Filmación:

London, England, UK

Compañía:

Amalgamated Productions

Trivialidades:

This 1958 British production was based on "The Thought-Monster" by Amelia Reynolds Long, which was published in the classic American pulp magazine "Weird Tales" in 1930.

Errores:

Errores cometidos por los personajes (posiblemente errores deliberados por los cineastas): Even though it is made clear that the military characters are US Air Force, when the Sergeant (Michael Balfour, a British actor, as were most of the others in the film) reports to Major Jeff Cummings (Marshall Thompson) early in the film, he incorrectly gives the Major a "British" salute, with the palm facing outward. Thompson returns the salute correctly, with the palm facing inward.

Citas:

Prof. R. E. Walgate: What have I unleashed?

Conexiones de Película:

Spoofed in Dead End (1985)

Horror with brains!

This is one of those scary flicks I saw in the early 70's when I was very young (six years old, probably), and probably it was the scariest thing I saw at that time. Certainly, there was no other film like it. I really wonder what sort of attitude the filmmakers had when this was being made. Were they giggling fiendishly, thinking of all the people they would scare with these images? (Scaring people was obviously their plan.) Did they think the movie they were making was "cool"?

The action-packed climax is pretty much the last fifteen minutes of the film. The brain creatures attack the people in the house, and pretty soon, bullets are flying, axes are being swung, and brains are being sucked. In my mind, this completely, mind-blowingly over-the-top ending scene seemed to go on forever, like a seriously bad nightmare. It was so repellently real. The creatures have no eyes, and they sort of "sense" your presence electrically to zero in on you, before flying up at you and clamping themselves onto the back of your neck. The depiction of this was pretty effective, and it still surprises me how well thought-out the creature imagery was here. Surprisingly realistic.

It still works, quite well! Go see it.