Most of the US Air Force personnel are played by British actors.
When the Sergeant reports to Major Jeff Cummings early in the film, he incorrectly gives the Major a "British" salute, with the palm facing outward.
Thompson returns the salute correctly, with the palm facing inward.
In the scientist's library, a book on cybernetics has a misspelled title "Sibornetics.
" After Amelia Adams is attacked, her husband, Ben, turns her over so she is lying on her back.
When Ben is attacked and falls, Amelia is face down once again.
Major Cummings' first visit with Professor Walgate and the search through the woods by the townsmen are presented as being simultaneous, but the visiting shots are presented in daylight while the search shots are presented as nighttime.
During the siege at Walgate's house, Melville is killed by a fiend that crawls down the chimney.
Despite this, the survivors make no effort to block/seal the chimney.
During the "Test Baker" sequence, the bomber code named "Green Dog" is first shown to be a B-52.
Later it is shown as a B-47 bomber, and then back to a B-52.
Capt.
Chester offers Maj.
Cummings a cigarette, even though the Major already has a lit one in the ashtray.
Near the end of the film when Maj.
Cummings is running up the stairs at the power plant there is a body hanging over the wall but in the previous scene when he is running across the parking lot toward the stairs the body is not there.
None of the U.
Air Force officers are wearing the name tags that are a mandatory part of the uniforms they are wearing.
Fiend Without a Face is directed by Arthur Crabtree and written by Herbert J. Leder and Amelia Reynolds Long (story The Thought Monster).
"Fiend Without A Face" is definitely one of those wacky SyFy/Monster flicks that could only have come out of an "Atomic Age" mentality of the 1950s.Set in and around an American Air-force base located in Winthrop, Manitoba, Canada - "Fiend Without A Face" tells the dead-serious tale about a mad scientist who unwittingly unleashes (upon the unsuspecting public) a pack of ravenous "mental vampires" who like to greedily feed off of the spinal fluids of humans.
To start off in a horribly clicheed manner, if you can't say anything nice, you're not supposed to say anything at all. Considering that this Fiend Without A Face came about in a decade when sci-fi was generally considered grade-Z clap trap, one would assume that I'd not have anything polite to discuss in regards to this film.
Arthur Crabtree's 'Fiend Without A Face' used to play a lot on late night '70's television ( along with 'The Night Caller' and 'The Earth Dies Screaming' ). It scared the hell out of me the first time, and even now manages to elicit the odd shudder.
I saw this film when I was 7. I did not sleep for many nights after.
Reclusive scientist Prof. Walgate's (Kynaston Reeves) attempts to make mental energy corporal get out of hand when rogue thoughts feeding on radiation from a local US Airbase manifest as invisible, brain-sucking vampires.
I know this movie since twenty seven years now, and I have never forgotten it. The first time I watched it, it gave me the creeps.
Though it gets going slowly (the "fiends" remain invisible throughout most of the movie, putting in a corporal appearance only toward the end, when gorged on atomic power), it's the stop-motion animation siege at film's end that makes this one so noteworthy. The fiends (referred to as "mental vampires" by their creator) certainly rank as some of the most unique monsters in the annals of fright films.
Around an American airbase in Canada, the local townsfolk start dying in an unspeakable fashion. Major Cummings (Marshall Thompson) has his hands full, trying to prove that his airmen are not responsible for the carnage.
