Thursday, May 13, 2021

Girls, Join Us Saturday Night, As Svengoolie Presents "Fiend Without A Face!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


                                                      I am telling you, darlings, 1958 was a vintage year from oozing monsters.  "The Blob," "The Crawling Eye," and now this???????????????????


                                                       I don't much about this one, dolls.  It was shown in my childhood but I never caught it.  I often confused this film with "Face Of Fire," s 1959 film, which is less a horror film, and a more a social examination of  communitiy bullying,  when a man,  whose face is horribly disfigured while saving a child in a fire, is persecuted by the townsfolk for the way he looks.


                                                        Not much fun.  But this other film should be a hoot!  I mean, already you have the scantily clad maiden--a  sexual stable of the genre-- being menaced.  And, as suggested by the poster,  the monster looks like a distant cousin of "The Crawling Eye."  At least that monster had one  orb enabling him  to get around, so how does this creature do it????????????????


                                                             We will have to find out on Saturday night, so please join yours truly, David,  Baby Gojira  and Kerwyn for this campfest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


                                                                 The film is supposedly based on a short story by Amelia  Reynolds Long, entitled "The Thought Monster," and published in the March issue of "Weird Tales" magazine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Wish they would reprint that mag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


                                                                   But let's see how much thought this creature and the screen writeers have....or not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


                                                                     See you Saturday, hons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3 comments:

  1. This flick is generally well thought of, actually: one of the better British horror imports of the '50s. Fondly remembered by boomer kids who saw it five times a year on independent TV stations "Creature Feature" and "Chiller Theater" timeslots on Saturday nights thru the '60s-'70s.

    Of course, thats without the Svenghoulie trappings mocking it every ten seconds: it will be harder to suspend disbelief for this particular airing.

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  2. My Dear,
    I will post on this later;
    it starts slow, then picks up.
    The creatures were smaller than
    I expected; it might have been
    better had they not been shown.

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  3. After watching this again for the first time in years Saturday, I realized I got it a little mixed up with the similar "Brain From Planet Arous" (made a year later). The two brains in "Arous" were much larger, float mid air, and have glowing eyes: a rather campier presentation.

    Once I saw the cute little brains in the climax of "Fiend" multiplying like Star Trek Tribbles and crawling around via Ray Harryhausen-style stop-motion puppetry, it clicked that this was a different movie altogether.

    Both are fun in their own ways. Svenghoulie provided some really good arcane background info on "Fiend", which I appreciated.

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