Fiend Without a Face

3.0 stars. Yes, I guess you could say that from the perspective of 60+ years since this movie was released, it is quite cheesy. The acting was subpar, and the plot was fairly typical of 1950s sci-fi flicks. I did like the creepy touch of keeping the monsters invisible until the very end. For its time, the stop-action special effects were pretty good. Also, the thought of creating creatures from a mind control ability was pretty terrifying. This trope was also explored in the movie "Forbidden Planet".

A little better than the average Creature Feature from it's time due to it's impressive special effects.

While it's very short, full of disposable characters and poor writing the monsters and stop motion effects are surprisingly good. An very decent entry into the 50s Monster Craze

Watchable nonsense. Cheesy, surprisingly gory, with an attractive lead girl that helped hold my attention.

Overall, Fiend without a Face works as a 50s science fiction film that at times may be a little cheesy or far stretched, works. For the time, and on a tiny budget, it is a successful creature film with some amazing stop animation. If you're into older sci-fi, you'll find yourself eating this up.

This 1958 horror film had an interesting premise but in the end it just fell flat. The special effects actually hold up well. They are not the best I have ever seen but they are decent for their time and hold out fairly well. The cast gives a decent performance as well. Again they are not fantastic but they do a good job given the script they have. I just found "Fiend Without a Face" to be very slow moving and frankly boring. It took forever to get to its conclusion and I was battling to stay awake at one point. I also found the professor's explanation of how his telepathy experiments gone wrong created the evil creatures to be confusing and difficult to follow. "Fiend Without a Face" is not terrible, but in the end, there are just too many problems with the movie for me to recommend it. The movie is not worth your time.

the late 50s were a great time for sci-fi

This is a movie of its time when atomic/nuclear energy and weapons were a new idea. I like the idea and I almost want someone to remake this movie with better special effects.

Abysmal fifties nuke 'thriller', this time set on a Canadian (yeah, right) airbase where a cast of shockingly bad actors pretend to be scared by a thing that is mostly invisible (cue rustling bushes and mimed death grips) until the budget allows us to see the stop-motion brains that fly through the air to attack and terrify. Ed Wood would have been ashamed.

A fun 1950s Sci-Fi romp, but more of a B feature. Well worth a watch if you like these, but not a strong choice.