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	THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- FIEND WITHOUT A FACE
		FIEND WITHOUT A FACE is set at a remote US Air Base in Canada, where the military are conducting experiments to increase the range of their radar system with vast amounts of power that they are generating at a nuclear power plant on the base.
		FIEND WITHOUT A FACE is a tight and well-acted little science fiction shocker that features good special effects work that actually produces more blood and gore than one generally finds in a movie from this period.
		The stop motion special effects deployed in FIEND WITHOUT A FACE are something of a rarity for this genre, especially since they are so well done and far bloodier than anything Ray Harryhausen ever came up with in his sci-fi films (was there ever any blood in a Harryhausen's special effect?).
	www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_reviews/fiend-without-a-face-dvd.htm (1176 words)

	Column - Fiend Without a Face: A Reminiscence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Thus were born the Fiends that threatened to take over the World, created in the original story through thought projection by a scientist experimenting with new forms of life.
		During the lengthy post-production schedule of "Fiend Without a Face", I made a third picture with Marshall Thompson which was a low-budget spy thriller shot entirely on locations in and around London that was directed by Ronald Kinnoch (who produced MGM's "Village of the Damned"), and co-starred John Loder, called "The Secret Man".
		Without the guarantee of a studio release, one could be left without theatrical distribution in the United States which became necessary to generate world-wide interest.
	www.filmsinreview.com /Features/Misc/fiendwithoutaface.html (1482 words)

	DVD Review - FIEND WITHOUT A FACE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When Criterion announced their upcoming DVD release of Fiend Without a Face, my son was convinced that it was all due to thirty years of my ballyhooing the little "B" to anyone who would listen.
		No one is pretending that Fiend Without a Face is an 'important' film about these modern dilemmas; it's just an entertainment that turned out to be sweeter and scarier than most of the others like it.
		But such themes are present on a script level, and the director uses them to generate underlying tension in support of the main thrust of the horror as the invisible marauders of the title slither about, sucking the brains and spinal cords out of their victims while supersonic jets fly ominously overhead.
	www.filmsinreview.com /At%20Home/dvrev-fiendwithoutaface.html (743 words)

	Fiend Without A Face \| 1957
		Fiend Without A Face is one of these films - it's definitely British, but you'd be hard pressed to tell.
		Fiend Without A Face ends in a welter of gore, odd science (since when did hiding behind a nearby jeep save you from an exploding atomic power station?) and mixed messages - is atomic power the problem, or free will?
		With a bit more thought, a British setting and more scares, Fiend Without A Face could have been okay, but as it is it's just an excuse to watch stop-motion animated brains get the crap blown out of them.
	www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk /fiendwithoutaface.shtml (487 words)

	Fiend Without A Face: Criterion (1958)
		Fiend follows a predictable path, especially via the artificial manner in which it involves romantic elements.
		The materials that come with Fiend attempt to set it up as some sort of genre classic, and it’s possible that some may regard it as such; we’re told of the influence the movie seemed to have on Night of the Living Dead and Small Soldiers.
		Fiend Without a Face appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.66:1 on this single-sided, single-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
	www.dvdmg.com /fiendwithoutaface.shtml (1801 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, FIEND WITHOUT A FACE (1958) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The first was FIEND WITHOUT A FACE, a mix of science-fiction and terror that was probably the first film that really put a scare into me (and I'll couch that note with the fact that this was back in the middle ages, when I was working toward nine or ten years old).
		FIEND WITHOUT A FACE was originally intended to be the cheaper picture on a double bill from Richard Gordon's Amalgamated Productions.
		FIEND WITHOUT A FACE is single-handedly responsible for more than its share of childhood nightmares.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews3/fiendwithoutface.html (2140 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Fiend Without a Face at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I had believed Fiend was a somewhat plagiarized version of Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters which was written in 1951, and somewhat resembles the plot of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers.
		Fiend Without A Face was produced by the British Richard Gordon, filmed mostly in England, set in Canada (close to the American Border), starred an American actor (Marshal Thompson), and wound up being distributed by MGM.
		Fiend with a Face isn't a film you watch and enjoy because of its high camp value but because it's still a suspenseful well done film.
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	Savant Review: Fiend Without a Face
		What they've done with the lowbudget, low-concept Fiend Without a Face from 1958, is something of a surprise, and not a surprise that reflects well on Criterion's standards.
		Fiend Without a Face is referred to in Criterion's special essay as 'a high-water mark in British Science Fiction.' This is total hooey.
		Fiend was made in the same cookie-cutter as scores of other uninspired monster movies - fill up seventy minutes with anything at all, followed by a few minutes of a monster for a payoff.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s177fiend.html (1470 words)

	Images - Fiend Without A Face
		But without color, the throbbing brains, which make sloshing and slurping sounds as they move, are relatively easy to watch -- even as bullets strike them and streams of blood pool on the ground.
		Other than the monsters, the rest of Fiend Without a Face is unspectacular fare, with Marshall Thompson (of television's Daktari) delivering a good performance as our hero in a role that doesn't give him much to do until the movie's conclusion.
		Fiend Without a Face is now available on DVD from the Criterion Collection in a new widescreen transfer with digital picture restoration.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue10/reviews/fiend/default-nf.htm (750 words)

	Review - Fiend Without A Face (1958) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Fiends in question are mind vampires; flying brains complete with spinal cords and antennae!--insidious beasts that like nothing better than to strangle people before sucking-out their brains.
		Criterion Collection have once again outdone themselves, blessing "Fiend Without A Face" with a DVD release packed with entertaining and informative extras and a brand new widescreen transfer (enhanced for 16x9 televisions) which, given the low-rent status and age of the picture, looks wonderful.
		"Fiend Without A Face," together with the Criterion editions of "The Blob" and "Carnival of Souls" is an essential component of any self-respecting movie buffs DVD collection.
	www.cinetalk.org /review_fiend_without_a_face.htm (591 words)

	Scifilm -- Musings, FIEND WITHOUT A FACE (1958) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There's more than one fiend to begin with, and since they're invisible, of course they don't have faces.
		But they do become visible later on, and when they do, they still don't have faces; they look like disembodied central nervous systems, all brain and spinal cords, and they crawl around like inchworms, or launch themselves like grasshoppers into the air in order to feed on their unsuspecting victims.
		The movie is a bit uneven, with more dull spots than it really should have, but there are some interesting touches to the story, such as the subplot on how the residents of the area resent the military base because the jets are upsetting the cows so they don't give as much milk.
	www.scifilm.org /musings/musing186.html (282 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: Fiend Without A Face review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Fiend Without A Face is borderline Mystery Science Theatre 3000 material.
		There is a resemblance to Night of the Living Dead in Fiend's ending, and it would not surprise me if George Romero actually did find inspiration in Fiend for his horror classic (unless Fiend stole the idea from another previous film, which is very possible).
		The trailers are Fiend Without a Face, The Haunted Strangler, Corridors of Blood, First Man into Space, and The Atomic Submarine.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_3/fiendwithoutaface.html (830 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Fiend Without A Face (1958) - Printable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The fiends also serve to fill the roles of evil by-products from modern technology, a large theme in late 1950's sci-fi/horror.
		Fiend was revolutionary by contemporary standards, with a story, though implausible, that is without holes in its logic or continuity issues&#mdasha rarity for its time.
		Image Transfer Review: According to the liner notes, Fiend Without A Face was not only transferred from the best available source material, but also digitally restored (much like The Third Man), using computers to remove heavy damage, stains, holes, and other physical problems.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showrevpdf.php3?ID=893 (1393 words)

	DVD Review - Fiend Without A Face (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		To a generation of addicts glued to the flickering of a late-night TV set, the monochromatic stop-motion brain monsters of the 1958 MGM film unnerved as assuredly as any of the ghoulish denizens spawned from the Hammer or Universal nightmare factories.
		Soon, a more sinister problem arises: bodies start turning up, their faces stamped with a frozen look of utter horror and their brains and spinal cords completely evacuated through two small holes behind the head.
		"Fiend" is represented as well as "The Haunted Stranger," "Corridors of Blood," "First Man Into Space," and "The Atomic Submarine." The snippets vary in quality, with "Fiend" and "Corridors" in the best shape as well as letterboxed.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/fiend_without_a_face.shtml (1345 words)

	Combustible Celluloid - Fiend Without a Face (1958)
		Fiend Without a Face (Criterion Collection, $39.95) came from a 1930's sci-fi story written by a teenage girl.
		Both transfers are fine, though "Fiend Without a Face" shows a few source-print scratches here and there.
		Taken as a DVD B-movie double-bill, though, The Blob and Fiend Without a Face are practically unbeatable.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /classic/fiendface.shtml (735 words)

	Fiend Without a Face (1958)
		Before the fiends even reveal themselves, the odd, invisible movements of hay and underbrush, and the fiends' wheezing and wet sucking sounds are creepy enough.
		For the DVD release, Criterion restored Fiend Without a Face with a new digital transfer from a 35mm composite, fine-grain master, anamorphically enhanced in the film's original 1.66:1 theatrical aspect ratio with Dolby Digital monaural sound.
		A final non-disc extra is a short essay, printed on the DVD's insert, on Fiend Without a Face by University of Colorado film studies professor Bruce Kawin.
	www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/73929 (791 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Fiend Without a Face Movie Review
		The fiends are essentially brains with spinal cord tails and tentacles protruding all over, slithering about, ready to pounce and suck your brain and spinal cord right out.
		The Criterion DVD of Fiend Without a Face (which is presented in a crisp fl and white widescreen transfer) is packed with lots of fun goodies.
		While Fiend Without a Face isn't nearly as much fun as The Blob (also released in 1958), it's a decent time-waster for fans of B-movies of the era.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /fiendwithoutaface.html (651 words)

	Horrordvds.com - Fiend Without A Face DVD review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		If you're reading this plot summary without having seen the movie, Fiend Without a Face probably sounds like any other 50's monster movie, and in some ways, that assumption is correct.
		When one of the "fiends" is killed, it doesn't just bleed - it has a spasm and spurts out a grotesque amount of blood before finally dying.
		Fiend Without a Face is presented letterboxed at 1.66:1, and is 16x9 enhanced.
	www.horrordvds.com /reviews/a-m/fwaf (1317 words)

	Fiend Without a Face
		Parker's magnificent sweater meat than was customary for a film of Fiend's vintage), Major Cummings finds himself locked in a mausoleum housing the stripped body of the town mayor (James Dyrenforth), the presence of the Professor's pipe a dead giveaway as to the identity of the enlisted man's hastily-departing assailant.
		Fiend fetches its second wind during the final act, however, abruptly transforming from an effectively creepy yet understated melodrama into a visually-charged, full-tilt splatfest upon the arrival of the horrible head cheese horde.
		One can only imagine the look on the faces of theater patrons of the period as Cummings and company proceeded to beat back the beasts, covering the screen in a surprisingly explicit excess of steaming brain goo.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /Reviews/E-H/fiend_without_a_face.html (689 words)

	The DVD Journal: Fiend Without a Face
		Fiend Without a Face (1958) is one of the lovable lesser cousins in this family of Brit B-flick fan favorites.
		To hardcore genre fans, Fiend Without a Face is beloved as a peak moment in British creep'm-scare'm filmmaking.
		Fiend was directed by Arthur Crabtree, who kept the formulaic story moving forward and the mood grimly earnest, all with a straight-ahead style that serves the material without ruffles or flourishes.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/f/fiendwithoutaface.shtml (1031 words)

	: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Excellent "stop-motion" special effects create truly memorable "fiends" that were literally "ahead" of their time and whose physical appearence give credence to the slogan "you are what you eat"!
		Fiend Without a Face contains one of the most indelible images to emerge from sci-fi/horror movies of the atomic age: malevolent human brains, creeping like caterpillars on spinal-cord tails, choking the life out of their helpless victims!
		This climactic scene--a triumph of latex rubber fiends, eerie sound effects, and stop-motion animation--was a gory breakthrough in 1958, and it´s still a worthy precursor to every gross-out monster movie that followed in its trendsetting wake.
	www.pagenation.com /an/B00004Z1FN.html (1099 words)

	Classic-Horror Review of Fiend Without a Face (1958)
		Fiend Without a Face takes place in Canada, of all places, on a military base that is using atomic-powered radar as an early-warning system against those pesky Ruskies.
		While Fiend Without a Face suffers slightly from Cheesy 50s Flick Syndrome, it makes a few advances.
		First of all, nuclear power is not the enemy, but simply a scapegoat (I doubt if this was meant as a commentary on other films of the era, though).
	classic-horror.com /reviews/fiendwithoutface.shtml (471 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Fiend Without A Face: Criterion Collection
		It is his matter-of-fact style that lends Fiend Without A Face a strong sense of reality and one that helps move the film beyond the formulaic screenplay of Herbert J. Leder.
		Oversized brains that crawl along by their spinal cords, the stop motion effects that bring them to life are some of the finest special effects of the period and stand in strong competition with the finest work of the master, Ray Harryhausen.
		Fiend Without A Face is acquitted of all charges, while Criterion is given a slap on the wrist for taking so much money out of my wallet.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/fiendsansface.php (2170 words)

	Fiend Without a Face - DVD Movie Central
		Fiend Without a Face almost dares its viewers to categorize it as a cheese film.
		These fiends were multiplying and feasting on the central nervous systems of their victims.
		Fiend Without a Face is a better than average atomic monster film from the 1950’s, given stellar treatment by Criterion on this terrific DVD.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/fiend_without_a_face.htm (1042 words)

	Kino Film: Fiend Without a Face
		Fiend Without A Face simultaneously evokes the Grand Guignol of Hammer, the campy shocks of Roger Corman, and the visionary grotesqueries of The Brothers Quay.
		Utilizing the kind of urgent, efficient filmmaking rarely seen in low-budget science fiction, director Arthur Crabtree assuredly guides Fiend Without A Face towards a final siege that's an unforgettable, inadvertently surreal orgy of grotesque special effects disturbing enough to have been cut from the film's original U.S. release.
		This new fl and white transfer restores Fiend Without A Face to its original gory glory.
	www.kino.com /video/item.php?film_id=612 (324 words)

	SHUT EYE RECORDS & AGENCY :: Fiend Without A Face (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Twangy head-banging attack of mostly instrumental surfabilly mixed with tinges of 60's calypso and electrified bluegrass.
		Their live show consists of the band members wearing fl pantyhose to cover their faces, thumping stand-up bass, flailing guitar and pounding drums.
		Fiend Without A Face contains stand-up bassist, Steve McPeeks of Hot August Knights (a wacky Neil Diamond cover project) and Mastodon guitarist, Brent Hines.
	www.shuteyerecords.com /field_without_a_face.htm (113 words)

	Fiend Without A Face lyric, Misfits song
		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 a flout comming, a boiled blister pops inside, my ears still bleed with razor sharp precision, mouth to mouth the sweetness dangle by the breath upon my chest.
		See features of my rage, begin to shoot the fiend without a face, see the features of my rage, begin to shoot the fiend without a face, my face, the fiend without a face, the fiend without a face, the fiend without a face, a fiend without a face.
	www.lyric.su /song_fiend_without_a_face_misfits.html (172 words)

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