Fiend Without a Face (1958)

Fiend Without a Face is a 1958 independently made British black-and-white science fiction film from Amalgamated Productions, released by MGM, produced by John Croydon and Richard Gordon, and directed by Arthur Crabtree. The film starred Marshall Thompson, Kynaston Reeves, Michael Balfour, and Kim Parker. The screenplay by Herbert J. Leder was based upon Amelia Reynolds Long's 1930 short story "The Thought Monster," originally published in the March 1930 issue of Weird Tales magazine.

Fiend Without a Face tells the story of mysterious deaths at the hands of a mentally created invisible life-form that feeds on atomic power and then steals human brains and spinal columns to use as bodies in order to multiply its numbers.

Synopsis

U. S. Air Force Interceptor Command Experimental Station No. 6 is a long-range radar installation located in Winthorp, Manitoba, Canada. Unexplained deaths begin to occur in the general area of a farming village near the American base. Postmortems reveal the victims were murdered and the brains and spinal cords are missing from the corpses; the only clue left behind are two puncture marks at the base of each skull. The locals, however, become convinced that radiation leaks from the radar installation's nuclear-power experiments are the cause of the mysterious deaths.

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