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>In my post about early British horror films, I forgot >to discuss "Fiend Without a Face," a 1958 movie that >was very influential on future horror films to come. >It's the grandaddy of the >board-up-your-house-because-monsters-are-outside >school of filmmaking. You can readily sees its >influence on movies ranging from "The Birds" to "Night >of the Living Dead" to "Kingdom of the Spiders" and on >and on. > >Filmed in England, "Fiend Withot a Face" is set in >backwoods Canada, though the thick Scottish accents of >most of the performers are unlike any Canadians I've >ever heard (Since I live near the Canadian border, I >can vouch that they generally talk the way us >Americans do.) > >A number of people in a small Canadian community die >mysterious deaths. We learn that a local scientist >has somehow created a race of creatures that are >living brains. They crawl around on the floor or jump >at people and suck their brains out. In the scary >conclusion, the crawling brains besiege a house where >a small group of people board up their windows and >doors to keep the killer brains out. > >The special effects for the movie are rather primitive >today, but when you consider the effort it must have >taken to create these creature in a 1950s movie, you >have to be impressed. After all, back then it was >easier to put a guy in a hairy suit. In other words, >it took some brains to make those brains. (Yuk-yuk) >The fact that the producers had so many of these >creatures in the movie, when it would have been easier >to just have one for the whole film, shows they were >really trying to do something good here. And it is a >very entertaining film, and very, very creepy in its >grand shoot-'em-up climax.
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