PRODUCTION
Production Company: MLC Producers Associates Ltd
Executive Producer: Richard Gordon
Producer: John Croydon

SCRIPT
Script: Herbert J. Leder
Short Story: The Thought-Monster by Amelia Reynolds Long

DIRECTION
Directors: Arthur Crabtree, Marshall Thompson (uncredited)
Assistant Director: Douglas Hickox

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Lionel Banes
Unit Photographer: Martin Curtis

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: R.Q. McNaughton

MUSIC
Music: Buxton Orr
Music Director: Frederic Lewis

SOUND
Sound Recordist: Peter Davies

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Jim Hydes
Hair: Barbara Barnard
Costume Designer: Anna Duse

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Puppel Nordhoff, Peter Nielsen

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Set Designer: John Elphick

CAST
Marshall Thompson (Major Cummings)
Terence Kilburn (Captain Chester)
Michael Balfour (Sergeant Kasper)
Gil Winfield (Dr Warren)
Shane Cordell (nurse)
Stanley Maxted (Colonel Butler)
James Dyrenforth (Mayor)
Kim Parker (Barbara Griselle)
Peter Madden (Dr Bradley)
Kerrigan Prescott (atomic engineer)
Kynaston Reeves (Professor Walgate)
R. Meadows White (Ben Adams)
Lala Lloyd (Amelia Adams)
Robert MacKenzie (Constable Gibbons)
Launce Maraschal (Melville)

At a USAF base in the wilds of Canada an experiment conducted by a scientist allows his thought to become physical realities. Something is now killing both cattle and the odd USAF guard by sucking their brains out. It seems that the killers invisible projections of the scientist's subconscious, later made visible and besieging a group of survivors in a farmhouse...

Well directed by Crabtree and acted with a degree of conviction (though not a lot), Fiend Without a Face is a fun romp with some well animated monsters and a great sense of mounting paranoia. It takes a little while to get going, but once the blood starts to flow, it develops into a fine, head cracking monster stomp. Crabtree captures well the rising panic, culminating the film in what was soon to become a genre commonplace, the isolated farmhouse under siege. Thus, this modest little chiller was, in many ways, a logical predecessor of films like The Birds (1963) and Night of the Living Dead (1968), both of which culminate in groups of survivors under siege from something quite inscrutable.

UK
Theatrical Distributor: Eros Film Distributors Ltd