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Fiend Without A Face

1957, Movie, NR, 74 mins

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A top horror/sci-fi film with a good plot and a lot of gruesome special effects and gore. The story takes place on an isolated US/Canadian air base-radar station in Canada's north woods. A scientist, Thompson, is using the base's atomic power to try to materialize people's thoughts. The experiment gets out of hand when his bad thoughts take the form of huge floating brains, and start killing people by sucking out their brains and spinal cords (it's not as silly as it sounds). The brains use their spinal cords to propel themselves through the air. Several of the brains are shot by soldiers in a closeup showing plenty of deflating brains and blood. Thompson finally diffuses the monsters by shutting off the base's atomic power. The film was directed by Crabtree, a former cinematographer who had an earlier success with the film, HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM. The special effects for the brains were created by a team of Austrians, and it is their work that distinguishes this effort. leave a comment
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