Beautiful starlet kim parker 1933 was born in austria as herta padawer. This film has a low budget but manages to scare up a few thrills. All music and film clips are not owned or produced by me bu. Fiend without a face 1958 old indie scifi horror b. He produced the captain video show, loretta young show, meet the press, and wrote scripts for new york tv soap operas. Released in 1958, fiend without a face horrified critics with its bloody. It chronicles the life and death battle of several poeple stranded on an island with a crazy german scientist. Sometimes the warnings or threats came from disembodied heads and brains, like donovans brain 1953, fiend without a face 1958 and the brain from planet arous 1957.
Shocktober 2018 begins with the 1958 film from director arthur crabtree, fiend without a face. He made a number of films such as fiend without a face 1958, pretty boy floyd 1960, nine miles to noon 1963, the frozen dead 1966, it. Fiend without a face is referred to in criterions special essay as a highwater mark in british science fiction. Fiend without a face 1958 journeys in classic film. It was about time that attack from plant b got back to its roots with some original 1950s bmovie science fiction horror. Search, discover and share your favorite fiend without a face gifs. The acting is sitcom bad and again the plot is boring but thankfully the short runtime. If that werent enough to make any genre enthusiast drool with sick delight, the movies also got an above. Fiend without a face, the title alone is brilliant. Volcano by fiend without a face lyrics damnlyrics all. Fiend without a face 1958 ganzer film deutsch hd posted on 16.
For the july 1958 opening of fiend without a face at the rialto theatre in new york citys theatre district, the films producers placed an outdoor exhibit near the sidewalk consisting of a living and breathing fiend in a steelbarred glass display case. Listen to your favorite songs from fiend without a face by fiend without a face now. Fiend without a face is a 1958 independently made british blackandwhite science fiction film from amalgamated productions, released by mgm, produced by john croydon and richard gordon, and. Fiend without a face music, videos, stats, and photos. Director arthur crabtree, a cinematopherturneddirector, demonstrated a good. If anything i recommend watching the last ten minutes of this film and laugh heartily. In case youre wondering, the love theme is that jaunty little ditty we hear when marshall thompson accidentally walks in on the leading lady whos stepping out of the shower. Unfollow fiend without a face to stop getting updates on your ebay feed.
The good news is that the love theme from fiend without a face was recorded on silva screens horror. Thompson, with magnificently grotesque special effects created in germany. His accomplishments were numerous in the world of film and movies. Searching for a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or watch the arthur crabtreedirected movie via subscription can be. Fiend without a face is a 1958 independently british science fiction film prod. Keeping with that theme, their live show consists of the band members wearing black pantyhose to cover their face, thumping standup bass, flailing guitar and pounding drums. Click download file button or copy fiend without a face url which shown in textarea when you clicked file title, and paste it into your browsers address bar. Her main claim to fame is the british science fiction film fiend without a face 1958 about mysterious deaths at the hands of a mentally created invisible life form that. Fiend without a face is a 1958 independently made british blackandwhite science fictionhorror film drama from amalgamated productions.
Fiend without a face 1958 ganzer film deutsch hd filme. So here we have it with arthur crabtrees fiend without a face thanks to ken. Those special effects were handled by germanys karl ludwig ruppel. Moviechat forums fiend without a face 1958 discussion any other movies like this one. A scientists thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brainshaped monsters complete with spinalcord tails. Fiend without a face remains their best known work to this day in the realm of cult moviemaking, in part because of the controversy the film raised in the companys native land for its gore quotient which was considerable for the day and age.
On this disk, the usual exemplary effort by criterion, an unassuming 74 minute monster flick from the gentle 1950s is cleaned up, picked apart, probed for clues to film history and mounted in a gallery of western cultural artifacts. It tells the story of mysterious deaths at the hands of an invisible lifeform that steals human brains and spinal columns. Fiend without a face i knew this as brains and spinal chords from my local philadelphia creature feature shows. So they take another tack, and resort for the first time. Fiend without a face takes place in canada, of all places, on a military base that is using atomicpowered radar as an earlywarning system against those pesky ruskies. In next page click regular or free download and wait certain amount of time usually around 30 seconds until. A more imaginative and lowerbudget form of monster emerged in fiend without a face 1958 in the shape of small creatures that look like human brains, hop wildly about and attach themselves to peoples spinal columns by drilling holes in their necks, through which they suck out the nervous tissue. Fiend without a face by arthur crabtree arthur crabtree. Fiend without a face, a scary movie from 1958 fiend without a face, directed by arthur crabtree in 1958, is without a doubt one of my favorite horrorscifi movies of all time. But, i dont want to reveal too much about this movie because it really can get.
See the features of my rage begin to shoot the fiend without a face my face the fever rots the brain goes numb inside i feel the blackout coming a boiled. Rent fiend without a face 1958 on dvd and bluray dvd. Without ruining the who behind the what, fiend without a face is a pleasant, interesting excursion into 50s scifi. This is their debut selftitled, fulllength cd which features tracks of mostly instrumental guitar. If file is multipart dont forget to check all parts before downloading. A piece on the 1958 killer brain picture fiend without a face. Fiend without a face 1958 old indie scifi horror bmovie december 5, 2018 through out the years, i have never actually watched the entire movie yet, but have only seen just brief clips, specifically, very quick scenes of the stop motion special effects. Leder and based loosely on a story by amelia reynolds long, the movie stars marshall thompson as major cummings. Fiend without a face criterion collection, dvd, special edition, widescreen, scificlassic, horrormonsters, 7155150127.
The first hour is all buildup as tension grows between a us air force research base and the small canadian town of. While not quite as amazing as the brain from planet arous the greatest brain movie of all time, imho, fiend without a face is still pretty awesome as 50s cheeseball bmovies go. Its spinal cord tail moved and it made menacing sounds by means of a concealed electrical. A scientist engaged in research at a remote military base creates a machine. Fiend without a face predated all of this, which is why this lowbudget bmovie managed to cause such a stir when it appeared in 1958. Marshall thompson, terry kilburn, kynaston reeves production company. Fiend without a face contains one of the most indelible images to emerge from scifihorror movies of the atomic age. Fiend without a face, one of my favorite vintage horror. Few 1950s creature features deliver the way fiend without a face does. Fiend without a face 1958 the ultimate version of a. The fiends turn out to be brains that pulse and scrape the ground with long spinal chords attached. Overall, fiend without a face works as a 50s science fiction film that at times may be a little cheesy or far stretched, works. With marshall thompson, terry kilburn, kynaston reeves, kim parker.
Although this was a british production, the production hired german karlludwig ruppel and austrian flo nordhoff, to create the graphic special effects. A torrent of gore flowed through the decade and into the 1970s, as the likes of. She played in a dozen films including pasaporte al infiernohijack 1956 and undercover girl 1958. The townspeople think that the nuclear reactor in the installation is a very bad thing, and theres lots of tension between the town and the base. This one actually looks pretty cool, so it sucks that i dont have the time to watch it. The film is based upon amelia reynolds longamelia reynolds long. In keeping with this, the stopmotion animation executed in germany by baron. The plot is meandering and ridiculous but boy is the final minutes of it hilarious. Fiend without a face 1958 cinemassacre productions. Fiend without a face takes their name from a 1958 english bmovie.
Fiend without a face is a 1958 british blackandwhite science fiction film directed by arthur crabtree. Fiend without a face is about as neat and compact a scifi chiller as was released in england in the 1950s indeed, it is the only real challenger to the primacy of val guests two masterpieces of the genre, the quatermass experiment 1955 and quatermass 2 1956. Fiend without a face is a 1958 independently made british blackandwhite science fiction film from amalgamated productions, released by. Fiend without a face by fiend without a face on amazon. Fiend without a face is a 1958 independently made british blackandwhite science. So with 1950s nuclear paranoia and the quest for scientific advance, such movies as this was the mainstay of the picture houses of the time, scaring the general public on a regular basis. The first two acts can be a little dry, but those seasoned in these films can enjoy the very cheap sets, the blaring overwrought music, and the radar room where. Want to watch fiend without a face in the comfort of your own home. These questions occurred to me as i spun the new criterion collection dvd, fiend without a face. Criterons dvd of fiend without a face doesnt know how to reveal the movie as an unheralded classic, mainly because it isnt one. Rent fiend without a face 1958 starring marshall thompson and terry kilburn on dvd and bluray.
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