Wonderfully offbeat film!

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Disappointment for a huge fan!

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

This movie had a lot of potential but the dialogue and long periods of silence we're equally boring and I found myself not paying attention, often singing Eyes Without A Face in my head. Then the old guy starts explaining everything and I snapped and had to fast forward. Other than that it's a typical old b-movie, scientist action heroes and a female lead that had no reason to be there.

It's More than a B "Brain" Movie. It's that, Sci-Fi, Horror, Atomic Paranoia and Mind Control all Mixed together and made for an Unforgettable Causal Nightmare of a Movie that had "Baby Boomers" Squirming.It's Reputation Precedes it Today and is Enjoyed by Moderns as a Bona-Fide 1950's Classic of its Kind. The Film does Not Disappoint.The First Two-Acts are Filled with Low-Budget Treats. Expressionistic Lighting and Mood are used in the Military Radar Room Scenes to Enhance the Paranoia.The Film Opens with the Attacks by "Fiends Without a Face" that are Invisible "Mental Vampires" that Lurch and Latch on to Innocent Town Folks and the Slurping, Eerie Sound-Effects leave No Doubt that They are a Force to be Reckoned With.Experiencing the Terror are the Usual Display of Fifties Characters. The Military Captain (Marshall Thompson) all Solemn, Serious, and Wired with Coffee and Benzedrine. The Military General in Charge of the Nuclear Plant that says "Remove more rods, damn the risks, we've got to make this work, I have to answer to the Pentagon." (paraphrasing).There's the Wiry Haired Absent "Minded" Professor Fiddling About Conjuring Mind Control Thought Entities with the Help of Nuclear Radiation and the Perky Female Assistant that Bounces from the Shower Dripping Wet with a Towel Covering only the Censored Parts and is Ready for Action, but She's more Body than "Brains" ("My head is buzzing with all of these big words.") Horrifying Things Happen even before the Disembodied Brains Complete with Spinal Cords make the Third Act the Undisputed Highlight of All 1950's Brain Movies. The Effects are Superb, Gooey, Gory, and Undeniably Unforgettable, even Today.The Film is made Rich with other Ingredients, like the Cavalier Attitude about the Nuke Plant and those In Charge. But it is the Now Famous "Brains" and the Claustrophobic Attack on the Cast in the Finale that makes the Movie Memorable.

Let's see. We have an air base where nuclear power is used to create a radar blanket surround the north pole. They are having trouble getting this to work properly. We have a nuclear power plant functioning in a small town. Suddenly, bodies start showing up with their brains and spinal cords sucked out of their bodies, with expressions of terror. The townspeople blame the soldiers that live among them. Apparently, it makes sense that a GI who has gone berserk would suck the brains out of people. They also blame the Air Force for their cows not giving much milk. Well it turns out that some scientist has been stealing the radiation before it gets to those planes to do some experiments in telekinesis. Like Walter Pidgeon in "Forbidden Planet," his mind has created invisible creatures. Anyway, these invisible things, when fed with enough nuclear energy, become corporeal. They look like mosquito larva with big brains and spinal cords that move like inch worms. Does this sound a bit bizarre. It is fun but don't think too much.

The 1950s was the decade of the cold-war paranoia sci-fi/horror movie, clever studios cashing in on the potential threat of an invasion or missile attack by the 'commies'. Fiend Without a Face proves to be one of more memorable efforts from this era thanks to its innovative script, neat direction from Arthur Crabtree, and a charming cast, but most of all perhaps, because of its cool creatures—disembodied brains, with spinal cords for tails, that suck their victims' heads dry.For much of the film, these monsters—the result of experiments in thought materialisation by well-meaning scientist Professor Walgate (Kynaston Reeves)—are completely invisible (but remain threatening due to the creepy noises that they make before attacking); however, after receiving an extra power boost from a nearby atomic plant, they finally appear in all their hideous glory, looking just a bit like like face-huggers that have been to university.US Major Jeff Cummings (Marshall Thompson) leads the desperate battle against the crawling brains, only pausing to make moves on the prof's shapely assistant Barbara Griselle (stunning actress Kim Parker); eventually, after an impressive stand-off against the creatures (a scene that utilises some fun stop-motion animation and plenty of 'goop'), Jeff stops off at a nearby handy-dandy dynamite depot and eliminates the beasties by blowing up the power station (rather strangely, he doesn't seem the slightest bit concerned about the very real possibility of a radiation leak as a result!).A little note of interest: although the film is set on a US air-base in Manitoba, Canada, it was actually shot in Walton-on-Thames in the UK (which, incidentally, is where I did my school work experience as a teenager).