Review - Fiend Without a Face

Or arms. Or legs. And yet they manage to kill people. A mad scientist living near a NORAD base in Canada taps into the Air Force’s nuclear energy in order to generate creatures bred solely by his own powers of concentration. Unlike the Id Beast from Forbidden Planet (the obvious source from which this plot line is “borrowed”), these monsters are nowhere near as scary when they aren’t invisible anymore. If only our scientist friend’s awe-inspiring mental prowess had enabled him to conjure up something other than brains with tiny eye stalks and trailing spinal columns. I added this to my DVD queue because I like movies with nuclear weapons connections and the trivia notes said this was one of the first explicitly gory movies ever made. It disappoints on both counts. Mildly amusing