“I’m a doctor, colonel, not a detective! There’s nothing like this in the books!” No, this isn’t Star Trek’s Bones talking, but it is from a 50s sci-fi/horror classic. Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Doc Rotten, and Jeff Mohr along with guest host Dave Dreher – as they try to keep their brains from being sucked out by the Fiend Without A Face (1958).
Decades of Horror: The Classic Era
Episode 166 – Fiend Without A Face (1958)
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A scientist’s thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters – complete with spinal cord tails – terrorize an American military base.
Director: Arthur Crabtree Writers: Herbert J. Leder (screenplay); Amelia Reynolds Long (original story: “The Thought Monster;” Weird Tales, March 1930) Executive Producers: Richard Gordon, Charles F. Vetter Special Effects by: Peter Neilson (special effects) Flo Nordhoff (special effects: Ruppel & Nordhoff) (uncredited) Karl-Ludwig Ruppel (special effects: Ruppel & Nordhoff) (uncredited) Selected Cast: Marshall Thompson as Major Cummings Terry Kilburn as Capt. Chester (as Terence Kilburn) Michael Balfour as Serg. Kasper Gil Winfield as Dr. Warren Shane Cordell as Nurse Stanley Maxted as Col. Butler James Dyrenforth as Mayor Kim Parker as Barbara Griselle E. Kerrigan Prescott as Atomic Engineer (as Kerrigan Prescott) Kynaston Reeves as Prof. Walgate Peter Madden as Dr. Bradley Meadows White as Ben Adams (as R. Meadows White) Lala Lloyd as Amelia Adams Robert MacKenzie as Const. Gibbons Launce Maraschal as Melville
The Grue Crew welcome Dave Dreher as guest-host to review the sci-fi/horror 50’s monster flick, Fiend Without a Face (1958). The tagline promises “New Horrors! Mad Science Spawns Evil Fiends!” and the stop-motion animation of the fiends – a brain with antennae and a spine – delivers the goods. The script is based on Amelia Reynolds Long’s 1930s short story, “The Thought Monster,” originally published in Weird Tales magazine. A modern remake has been promised in recent times but remains as invisible as the fiends in the first two-thirds of this British B-movie classic.
At the time of this writing, Fiend Without a Face is available for streaming from the Criterion Channel, AMC+, and PPV on Amazon and AppleTV. It is also available on physical media as a DVD from the Criterion Collection.
Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule, as chosen by Jeff, is The Frozen Dead (1966), written and directed by Herbert J. Leder and starring Dana Andrews and iced Nazis. Yes, it’s back-to-back Leder!
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