Fiend Without a Face

Film Info

United Kingdom
1958
92 minutes
Black and White
1.66:1
English
Spine #92

A scientist’s thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters (complete with spinal-cord tails!) who terrorize an American military base in this nightmarish chiller, directed by Arthur Crabtree (Horrors of the Black Museum). This outstanding sci-fi/horror hybrid is a special effects bonanza, and a high-water mark in British genre filmmaking.

Cast

Major Cummings	Marshall Thompson
Prof. Walgate	Kynaston Reeves
Barbara Griselle	Kim Parker
Col. Butler	Stanley Maxted
Capt. Chester	Terence Kilburn
Mayor	James Dyrenforth
Const. Gibbons	Robert MacKenzie
Dr. Bradley	Peter Madden
Dr. Warren	Gil Winfield

Credits

Director	Arthur Crabtree
Producer	John Croydon
Executive producer	Richard Gordon
Screenplay	Herbert J. Leder
Original story	Amelia Reynolds Long
Music	Buxton Orr
Conducted by	Frederic Lewis
Lighting cameraman	Lionel Banes
Editing	R.Q. McNaughton
Set designer	John Elphick
Special effects	Ruppell & Nordhoff and Peter Neilson

Disc Features

New widescreen transfer, with digital picture restoration and enhanced for 16×9 televisions
Audio commentary: a conversation with executive producer Richard Gordon and genre film writer Tom Weaver
Illustrated essay on British sci-fi/horror filmmaking by film historian Bruce Eder
A collection of trailers from Gordon Films: Fiend without a Face, The Haunted Strangler, Corridors of Blood, First Man into Space, and The Atomic Submarine
Rare still photographs and ephemera, with commentary
Vintage advertisements and lobby cards
English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired

New cover by David Cohen