Fiend without a face /
A scientist performing renegade research on thought materialization unwittingly creates creatures of pure atomic energy that hunger for human nervous systems. These brain-like creatures begin attacking people near a secret Air Force radar station, devouring their brains.
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired. |
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
Criterion Collection,
[2000]
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| Series: | Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ;
92. |
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| Summary: | A scientist performing renegade research on thought materialization unwittingly creates creatures of pure atomic energy that hunger for human nervous systems. These brain-like creatures begin attacking people near a secret Air Force radar station, devouring their brains. |
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| Item Description: | Liner notes by noted film scholar Bruce Kawin, inserted. Originally released as a motion picture in 1958. Based on a story by Amelia Reynolds Long. Aspect ratio 1.66:1; enhanced for widescreen TVs. New widescreen transfer, with digital picture restoration. Special features: Audio commentary: a conversation with executive producer Richard Gordon and genre film writer Tom Weaver -- Illustrated essay on British sci-fi/horror filmmaking by film historian Bruce Eder -- A collection of trailers from Gordon Films: Fiend without a face, The haunted strangler, Corridors of blood, First man into space, and The atomic submarine -- Rare still photographs and ephemera, with commentary -- Vintage advertisements and lobby cards. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet ([6] pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.). |
| Format: | DVD; Dolby digital, mono. |
| Production Credits: | Special effects, Ruppel & Nordhoff, Peter Neilson ; music, Buxton Orr, conducted by Frederic Lewis ; editing, R.Q. McNaughton. |
| ISBN: | 1559409118 : |