Fiend Without a Face is a 1958 British black-and-white science fiction film directed by Arthur Crabtree. It tells the story of mysterious deaths at the hands of an invisible life-form that steals human brains and spinal columns. The film is based upon Amelia Reynolds Long's 1930 short story entitled "The Thought Monster", originally published in Weird Tales magazine.
The film is set on an American airbase in rural Manitoba, Canada. Mysterious dea...
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Fiend Without a Face is a 1958 British black-and-white science fiction film directed by Arthur Crabtree. It tells the story of mysterious deaths at the hands of an invisible life-form that steals human brains and spinal columns. The film is based upon Amelia Reynolds Long's 1930 short story entitled "The Thought Monster", originally published in Weird Tales magazine.
The film is set on an American airbase in rural Manitoba, Canada. Mysterious deaths begin to occur in the small town near the base, and postmortems 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 been experimenting with telekinetics; Walgate, it is soon revealed, has succeeded in developing telekinesis...
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