没有面孔的恶魔 (1958)
Fiend Without a Face
标题其实很奇怪，叫做没有面孔的恶魔，岂止是没有面孔啊，根本就是全身就没有啊，叫做invisible才合适。 典型的恐怖片拍法，怪物出场杀人遵循循序渐进的规律，头一次只见尸体，不见杀人过程，第二次依稀见到了怪兽行进的踪迹，但总还让人抱有怪兽是可见的希望（如果没有经历剧透的话），第三次则巨细无遗的运用特技手段描绘了怪兽的神出鬼没，刻意渲染其未知与强大，这种剧情推进方式是无数后期恐怖片的的惯用规律。
- 上映日期
- 1958-07-03
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (96)
- 片长（分钟）
- 1小时14分钟
- 类型
- 恐怖, 科幻
- 导演
- Arthur Crabtree
演员阵容
- Marshall Thompson — Major Jeff Cummings
- Kynaston Reeves — Prof. R. E. Walgate
- Kim Parker — Barbara Griselle
- Stanley Maxted — Col. Butler
- Terry Kilburn — Capt. Al Chester
- James Dyrenforth — Mayor Hawkins
- Robert MacKenzie — Const. Howard Gibbons
- Peter Madden — Dr. Bradley
- Gil Winfield — Dr. Warren
- Michael Balfour — Sgt. Kasper
- Launce Maraschal — Melville
- Meadows White — Ben Adams
趣闻
Fiend Without a Face is a 1958 British science-fiction horror film directed by Arthur Crabtree and starring Marshall Thompson, Kynaston Reeves, Kim Parker, and Stanley Maxted in his final film role. The screenplay by Herbert J. Leder is based on Amelia Reynolds Long's short story "The Thought Monster", originally published in the March 1930 issue of Weird Tales magazine.
Production
Noted science fiction personality, collector, and literary agent Forrest J Ackerman represented mystery and science fiction pulp writer Long and brokered the sale of her story "The Thought Monster" to the film's producers. New York-based British producer and distributor Richard Gordon bought the film rights, and produced the film through his London company Amalgamated Productions, which he co-owned with former Rank executive John Croydon.
Screenwriter Leder was originally set to direct the film, but being American, was unable to obtain a British work permit in time, so Crabtree replaced him as director. Thompson later said that when the director showed up on the first day of shooting and looked at the script, Crabtree claimed it was not the film he had been hired to direct, as he did not do "monster" films.
Fiend Without a Face was made entirely in England. Its Canadian setting was chosen because it would appeal to both American and British Commonwealth movie audiences, while still being easy to replicate using the English shooting locations. U. S. Air Force stock aviation footage was also used to establish the military base setting and to pad out the film's meager running time.
The film's visible brain creatures were created using stop-motion animation, an unusual practice for such a low-budget science fiction thriller of this era. The director of these effects sequences was Florenz "Flo" von Nordoff, while the actual stop-motion was done in Munich by Nordhoff's partner, West German special effects artist Karl Ludwig Ruppel. Peter Neilson headed up the British practical effects crew.
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