‘New horrors! mad science spawns evil fiends!’
Fiend Without a Face is a 1958 sci-fi horror film about a scientist’s thoughts that materialise as invisible brain-shaped monsters.
Directed by Arthur Crabtree (Horrors of the Black Museum) and produced by John Croydon (The Projected Man; First Man Into Space; Grip of the Strangler).
The screenplay by Herbert J. Leder (director of It! and The Frozen Dead) was based upon Amelia Reynolds Long’s 1930 short story entitled “The Thought Monster”, originally published in Weird Tales magazine.
Plot:
The story is set on an American airbase in rural Manitoba, Canada. Mysterious deaths begin to occur in the small town near the base, and post-mortems reveal that the brains and spinal cords of the victims are somehow missing; only marks on each victim’s neck are left as a clue. But the locals become convinced that nuclear fallout from radiation at the base is causing the strange deaths.
Jeff Cummings, an Air Force major, soon becomes suspicious of Professor Walgate, a British scientist living near the airbase, who has succeeded in developing telekinesis. The nuclear power experiments at the nearby base have enhanced it well beyond his intentions, and in the process created a new, malevolent, invisible life form that has developed its own intelligence and escaped his laboratory.
This intelligence soon begins to multiply its numbers by claiming more local victims. These creatures later become visible while continuing to feed on the higher levels of power now being generated at the airbase. Their mutated “bodies” are revealed to be the missing, now enlarged brains and connected spinal cords removed from their victims; the spinal cords have become very flexible and have sprouted feelers. These mutations allow the creatures to move quickly and even to leap; each brain has also developed a pair of small eyes on extended eyestalks…
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