Definitely I love cheesy monster movies of this era. I’ve always been fascinated by this one in particular ever since these monsters cameo in Looney Tunes: back in action.
Blame the people who time these films for video release. (On the other hand, they generally never had access to the lab timing sheets the DP's recommended...and video companies preferred---unless it was a major major film---to present day-for-night scenes pretty brght.)
All together now - "Theyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy're Pinky and the Fiend-without-a-face, Pinky and the Fiend-without-a-face, They ain't got no budget, That's a really big disgrace........"
I'm 67 and I remember watching this with a cousin in the 60s and wondered why they didn't die when they killed their creator, since he brought them into being with his mind. I love this classic movies from the 50s.
I love this movie. Just the sound of the brain sucking and the actors squirming was enough to freak me out. When the lead peaked through the boarded-up window, the transition from the living room to the outside with the alien brains was an awesome camera trick to the 1950s.
Considering that in the 50's many, if any camera techniques were used, it was mostly those spinning animations, as the cameras were bulky, and I tried out one at a museum expo. So for them to a lot what they did for shots in this movie, I'm impressed.
Loved this film as a child and it's still awesome, all those squishy brains...btw pull the rod all the way out screw a meltdown I need more power... really!!!🙏☢️🧠👻
I first saw this on Ghoulardi when I was eight; it creeped me straight out, especially the guy who got half his brain eaten, and showed up at the door. Definitely one of the weirdest Fifties Sci-Fi movies ever made, and one of my personal favorites.
This is a zany, over the top, “Atomic Age” horror sci-fi & a lot of fun. Some decent SFX for its time with stop motion. It’s all over the place…B movie extravaganza or maybe C movie. It still works. Definitely cult status, perhaps cult status. Grab some beers,🍻pizzas 🍕 & enjoy! Brandon please continue to review 50s horror/sci-fi. Great stuff!!
Thing is - it's a solid story, with good acting and dialogue. Easy to rip (the FX etc.) nowadays but it had/has a certain charm. Good movie, kudos to those who made it.
I made an animated fiend without a face for last year’s Halloween party. Put in a wire cage and let it move around. Even with a movie poster next to the cage, most people still had no idea what it was supposed to be. Same thing happened with my Robot Monster costume a few years ago.
I have vivid memories of watching this film on TV when I was a kid but never knew the title of it. Thanks for giving me the answer to a question I've had for about 40 years.
Oh and - the monster effects are very high quality. Many people aren’t aware that the creature movements in many shots employed an early form of motion control - it’s not merely stop motion we’re looking at, but an early form of Go-Motion, in effect.
This was one of my favourite 50s sci-fi movies as a kid, along with "It Came From Outer Space" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still". Back in the early 80s in the UK they would put 50s sci-fi and horror movies on every Friday night and I would always stay up late to watch them.
Im assuming the fiends (without a face) used their magical radioactive powers to melt their brains and spinals. Or maybe they somehow telekinetically eat them from outside. I dunno, something like that. Im sure it made sense in the 50s.
@@pedrovallefin8406 Actually in the movie the doctor doing the autopsies noticed two small puncture wounds on the back of the victims' necks near the base of the skull.
Attack of the rubber stop motion brains. Yet another gem. I love the scenes where it just looks like somebody's tossing rubber brains at the cast from off screen.
I saw this film on TV around 1970, making me 7 at the time. The shots with the "fiends" flying through the windows (or, more accurately, "gliding" in some casual, ethereal fashion) stuck in my mind for years. I began to wonder if I may have just imagined it or confused the details of a shoddier production, but then I caught a retrospective on HBO around '80 or '81about sci-fi cinema and it presented that very sequence. Whoa! I really did see what I thought I saw! Oh, when I stated I saw the movie on TV in 1970, more likely I saw just a bit of it. I was VERY easily spooked as a child, so I'm sure as soon I saw those creatures float into the room like specters, I bolted from the room screaming!
It's been at least forty years and I can still remember the first time I saw it - on Svengoolie, lying in my bed late at night, wrapped up in a blanket with the lights off. The whole movie was scary, but the visible monsters really scared the bejeezus out of me. And the sound effects! GROSS! I'd forgotten the name of it and always thought about it as that super-gory invisible brain and spinal cord monster movie. Didn't see it again for many years, and when I finally did see it again, I really enjoyed it again and ever since. One of my top fifties monster movies of all time. Goes well with Day of the Triffids, Giant Gila Monster, Them, Beginning of the End, and Five Million Years to Earth (Quatermass and the Pit) P.S. Love the new couch!
A favorite of mine, along with The Killer Shrews, that was on the local horror movie weekend time slots. I always checked the TV Guide to mark off what not to miss in the upcoming week!
"Or, who knows? Maybe it'll be enough to raise Barbara's Brother from the grave." OH! How could you miss that Night of the Living Dead reference? "They're coming to get you, Barbara..."
This movie is practically perfect as 50s horror cheese. It's actually well done, well acted and the monsters are disgusting and really effective for the time.
This is one of John Carpenter's favorite movies, and you can tell. Unfortunately, judging by some of the comments below, too many of today's horror and sci-fi "fans" don't appreciate how important these movies were in setting the stage for later favorites.
@@TheBrandonTenold He most likely was, as he grew up with these movies on Detroit TV. The Evil Dead Companion was written by Bill Warren, who also wrote Keep Watching the Skies, THE definitive book on 50s science fiction film.
I first heard of this movie from James Rolfe's "Monster Madness: Camp Cult", and then I saw it on an episode of "Svengoolie". A really fun cult movie, especially for the brain monsters and the gore. Not to mention the sounds they made. Great Review.
Believe it or not, this film actually got a Criterion Collection DVD release back in 2007. Not too shabby for a low-budget B-movie. And yes, it did in fact get an "X" certificate in Britain because of the gory special effects (for its time).
Congrats on the convention gig, Brandon. That's kind of a big deal. You deserve it - you do an immense amount to keep interest in these movies alive for new generations.
One of the better ones. I remember hearing about it when I was a kid and thinking, "Yeah, right, like they'd make a movie like that." And then holy smokes. Just like with Attack of the Killer Shrews and Tommy.
Apart from the Night of the Living Dead, it also reminds me of of Forbidden Planet with the monster of the ID coming from the professor's mind (radiation replacing the krell's technology) and the monsters also have a baby Alien touch with their tail around their victim's neck. Pretty decent 50's movies anyway. I knew only the title: thanks you Brandon !
I remember seeing this movie referenced a few times as a kid, but until I saw it years later, I always kinda assumed it HAD to be fake. Killer brains? Who'd even think of that outside parody, I thought. But, it is a fun lil movie, and glad to see your take on it. Also, couch is nice. Edit for grammar lol
Brave Heart was one of the best Canadian movies, almost as Canadian as Cáca Milis, but the cake movie had better accents. Brave Heart got the accents close, but the cake movie was like taking a vacation in the great white north, but Cáca Milis also helps to point out how rude Canadians can be... Pretty dark, if not artsy for a true story.
Yes! Brandon has been killing it lately with these older flicks. I can't wait for Criterion to finally upgrade this one to Blu-Ray. It is totally worth trudging through ol' everyman Marshall Thompson and his overwhelming blandness for the pure ridiculousness and gooey brain monsters!
So the movie's monsters are initially invisible to the naked human eye, but once they're exposed to some intense, superheated radiation, they're supercharged so that they become visible. I appreciate the Sam Raimi/Evil Dead reference, but I wonder if the writers of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within were also influenced by this movie...
Fiend Without a Face is one of the best 50s black and white sci-fi horror film of 1958, such as between The Bride and the Beast and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.
As a British person, that all sounds like normal Canadian accents to me. If I closed my eyes, it would be impossible to know which bits are from the film and which are from Brandon. Yup.
To be fair, the only Canadians many Brits back then ever met (unless they were in the military in WWII) were probably Newfoundlanders or Nova Scotians due to relative proximity and maritime traffic, and folks there do have a bit o' the brogue, especially the older generations back then. Probably very few Brits had actually heard the accent of folks living in the middle of the country. It's still pretty funny, though. It comes off as if the Brits thought, "We're portraying a community of hicks in a country we hold as a crown dominion. So... Irish?" "Irish."
I was born in 1971, and catching this in Detroit from the old Sir Graves Ghastly show one Saturday evening was my introduction to this movie, I was around 5 years old tops, ha. Now look at me.....
New couch looks great! I was grabbing my controller to put on another video and I realized it wasn’t done and froze. My wife was super confused how I knew something was up lol
I use to watch this and Brain From Planet Arous a ton with my uncle as a kid. Good old days when I'd sneak into his room to watch his other horror movies.
This movie is legendary in my family. My uncle scared the shit out of my grandfather with this movie. My uncle said it was worth the beating! Lol The movie is known as Brain And Spinalcord here in South Central Pennsylvania!
Good Fiend find! I got put on to this film many years ago, by a great book called Them or Us: Archetypal Interpretations of Fifties Alien Invasion Films, by Patrick Lucanio. By the time he had put 1950s movies like this through the Jungian wringer, they sort of seem like the deepest, most meaningful films ever! They're not. That feeling fades away. But - the gore factor (very late) sure sets this one apart. I would have thought this film would have been a no-brainer for the censor board of the day...
I saw this one for the first time recently. The last twenty minutes or so are reminiscent of David Lynch's early short films (if something can be reminiscent of art that came after it). Truly unsettling.
I think the movements are very similar and the glossy look to the brains looks like something I’d see on Red Dwarf. AlsoI could see them having the brains explode, except on Red Dwarf they’d all get sprayed with goo.
This. Was my favorite movie when I was a boy. I really can't explain how it even happened that I saw it, but I still could watch this sh*t over and over and have no shame about it. Edit: It's a lovely couch.
Creatures of the Id? Also, with apologies to MST3K: "I knew it. They were too cheap to hire villains." Also, how did I know she was going to let her hair down as the film went on? This film would have been better if everybody sounded like Bob and Doug MacKenzie. And no, it didn't sound like Hormel chili - it sounded like Hormel chili going through your intestine.
Love your videos, friend. I started watching your channel in 2017 after I came to Canada from Nigeria and I am still a fan. You are one of the few retro and schlock movie reviewers who still focuses on entertaining the audience while enjoying the movies and you are genuine (which I greatly appreciate) Keep it up, friend.
@@TheBrandonTenold Oh thanks! Feel free to be as irreverent and comedic as you are with other movies. Trust me, we Nigerians are not woke and we actually enjoy it when folks talk about our media in good humor.
I've actually seen that "classic" before. It's not bad it all. Nice couch. Definitely made them invisible to save some money. Is it me or were only "Canadians" characters killed? I always love how 50's sci-fi movies logic. Monsters? Dynamite the reactor.?? "Maybe I can control them." ?? "There brains and spinal cords are gone." Radiation.
I thought it was The Brain From Planet Auros for a moment. Now THAT was weird. When even the back of the DVD cover ends describing the plot with "we are not joking" you know it's special.
He might have been only one letter away from being a friend without a face, but he was also just two letters away from the Fiend Without A Fiance! Which might be a lot worse. Overall, I'd say he did OK. But also, was not Forbiddy Plantain also 1958 and also with invisible monster? Plus I can't help but think the brainy-spiney things are VERY face-hugger...
I remember the first time I saw those things, it was in the Area 52 scene in Loony Tunes: Back in Action movie where Marvin busted out every alien in the building and started a massive prison riot. After that it was this movie and you better believe my mind was doing some Einstein level equations to try and figure out how the hell that happened.
Of course, they have no faces. The fiends!
I can tolerate fiends with faces but WITHOUT???
About time my mood is refreshed after looking at my notifications for new review!
@@minillaman6717
*I CAN'T BELIEVE!!*
Brandon what's the most weard movie you have ever watched
Nice coach
I've got to admit that those monster effects were pretty good for a 50's movie. So can we say that every time someone shot one it was a head shot XD
Or a brain 🧠 shot!
Would shooting them be considered a- DECAPITATION?!?
It sure comes to mind
Definitely I love cheesy monster movies of this era. I’ve always been fascinated by this one in particular ever since these monsters cameo in Looney Tunes: back in action.
Just shows what a good imagination gets you😀
I love that the changes in couch is an reoccurring theme in these videos. Just when you think the bit is dead, suddenly NEW COUCH!
Couch is good
@@royshaheer
Also he repainted the wall, it used to be teal. Now, it's blue!
I've never noticed that till now
It's a really nice couch, and a 3-seater too!
@@thatonea-hole How do you know it's the same wall? Maybe he moved...🤔
For such a low budget and obscure movie, their stop motion was actually really good. That's where the budget went I suppose...
Especially since Ray Harryhausen wasn't involved with this movie
They definitely went all out with the creature effects and violence.
"Wait, now it's day?"
Ah, the woods they were serching must have been the Ed Wood's.
Amazing...just amazing! Standing Ovations from me
You fiends with your stupid faces! Stupid! STUPID!!!
Well played!
Blame the people who time these films for video release. (On the other hand, they generally never had access to the lab timing sheets the DP's recommended...and video companies preferred---unless it was a major major film---to present day-for-night scenes pretty brght.)
“The best brain movie without the name ‘brain’ in the title.”
-James Rolfe, 2010
Ah, James Rolfe, good ol AVGN!
All together now - "Theyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy're Pinky and the Fiend-without-a-face,
Pinky and the Fiend-without-a-face,
They ain't got no budget,
That's a really big disgrace........"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The ' Brain from Planet Arous ', not sure if this is the worse movie with the word Brain in it 👍
I watched this with my dad when I was ten.. it showed up on the late show every now and again..
I loved this movie! I am seventy now and I have tears…
I'm 67 and I remember watching this with a cousin in the 60s and wondered why they didn't die when they killed their creator, since he brought them into being with his mind. I love this classic movies from the 50s.
I love this movie. Just the sound of the brain sucking and the actors squirming was enough to freak me out. When the lead peaked through the boarded-up window, the transition from the living room to the outside with the alien brains was an awesome camera trick to the 1950s.
Especially with the technical limitations of the time
Considering that in the 50's many, if any camera techniques were used, it was mostly those spinning animations, as the cameras were bulky, and I tried out one at a museum expo. So for them to a lot what they did for shots in this movie, I'm impressed.
Loved this film as a child and it's still awesome, all those squishy brains...btw pull the rod all the way out screw a meltdown I need more power... really!!!🙏☢️🧠👻
Fun fact, out of all the movies that could have referenced this movie a puppet of this monster was in the looney tunes back in action.
Just like Tyrese Gibson 😊😅😂.
That new couch really ties the room together
"Oh Danny Boy, our home and native land~" I laugh way harder and longer than that joke deserved.
I guess you could say this film was really *MIND-BLOWING* for the time!!
Some might consider your pun too cerebral. I don't mind.
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Thanks! 😊
"The Brain That Wouldn't Die", while it came out in 1960, is another horror entry that was quite gory in black-and-white for its time.
Unfortunately, it's impossible to think of that film without calling said brain Jan-in-the-Pan. Thank you, MST3K.
@@slacknhash She's got neck juice, she'll be fine.
I'll hafta check it out
02:42 Damn, Canada loves Brandon's reviews so much, they named a town after him.
They still haven't given me the key to the city.
The fiend monsters reminded me of The Ripping Friends "Flathead's Revenge" episode. It was about vengeful flatworms that sucks out backbones.
Inspired by "The Tingler" with Vincent Price, I suppose.
Those monsters were totally worth the wait. The multiple death scenes for them tied in with them FLYING through a fricken window made this worth it.
Now we finally know why Zombies want brains so badly. To stop this sorta thing from happening again.
So if these are fiends without a face, then are zombies, fiends with faces?!
@@thatonea-hole Nice
I first saw this on Ghoulardi when I was eight; it creeped me straight out, especially the guy who got half his brain eaten, and showed up at the door. Definitely one of the weirdest Fifties Sci-Fi movies ever made, and one of my personal favorites.
Turn Blue !
This is a zany, over the top, “Atomic Age” horror sci-fi & a lot of fun. Some decent SFX for its time with stop motion. It’s all over the place…B movie extravaganza or maybe C movie. It still works. Definitely cult status, perhaps cult status. Grab some beers,🍻pizzas 🍕 & enjoy! Brandon please continue to review 50s horror/sci-fi. Great stuff!!
Thing is - it's a solid story, with good acting and dialogue. Easy to rip (the FX etc.) nowadays but it had/has a certain charm. Good movie, kudos to those who made it.
@@daveroche6522 completely agree. Some fun viewing!
I made an animated fiend without a face for last year’s Halloween party. Put in a wire cage and let it move around. Even with a movie poster next to the cage, most people still had no idea what it was supposed to be. Same thing happened with my Robot Monster costume a few years ago.
Would love to watch that footage.
Honestly, I’m shocked there were no Billy Idol jokes in this. Great video as usual!
On account of his song Eyes Without A Brain?
First thing that came to my mind
13:38
a few minutes ago, i made a modest, and obvious, contribution.
Correction: _the_ modest, and obvious, contribution.
The Screen writer Herb Leder was my screen writing teacher in college!
Hide your wedding ring from the love interest! You’ll be terrified while watching
FRIEND WITHOUT A FACET!!
only just came across this review... one of my favourite movies. was so cool to hear Brandon speaking so well of it.
I have vivid memories of watching this film on TV when I was a kid but never knew the title of it. Thanks for giving me the answer to a question I've had for about 40 years.
Oh and - the monster effects are very high quality. Many people aren’t aware that the creature movements in many shots employed an early form of motion control - it’s not merely stop motion we’re looking at, but an early form of Go-Motion, in effect.
How so? This mostly looks like stop-frame panning. What am I missing? Help! ---Thanks! ;-)
This was one of my favourite 50s sci-fi movies as a kid, along with "It Came From Outer Space" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still". Back in the early 80s in the UK they would put 50s sci-fi and horror movies on every Friday night and I would always stay up late to watch them.
So the brain and spinal column was removed without opening the skull? That's freaky weird and I LOVE it!
#MovieLogic
Predator: No fair! I just rip it out? :P
Im assuming the fiends (without a face) used their magical radioactive powers to melt their brains and spinals. Or maybe they somehow telekinetically eat them from outside. I dunno, something like that. Im sure it made sense in the 50s.
Delicious skull calcium.
@@pedrovallefin8406 Actually in the movie the doctor doing the autopsies noticed two small puncture wounds on the back of the victims' necks near the base of the skull.
Attack of the rubber stop motion brains. Yet another gem. I love the scenes where it just looks like somebody's tossing rubber brains at the cast from off screen.
Just like the guys lobbing tribbles at Shatner during 'that scene' in ST-TOS.....
I saw this film on TV around 1970, making me 7 at the time. The shots with the "fiends" flying through the windows (or, more accurately, "gliding" in some casual, ethereal fashion) stuck in my mind for years. I began to wonder if I may have just imagined it or confused the details of a shoddier production, but then I caught a retrospective on HBO around '80 or '81about sci-fi cinema and it presented that very sequence. Whoa! I really did see what I thought I saw! Oh, when I stated I saw the movie on TV in 1970, more likely I saw just a bit of it. I was VERY easily spooked as a child, so I'm sure as soon I saw those creatures float into the room like specters, I bolted from the room screaming!
It's been at least forty years and I can still remember the first time I saw it - on Svengoolie, lying in my bed late at night, wrapped up in a blanket with the lights off. The whole movie was scary, but the visible monsters really scared the bejeezus out of me. And the sound effects! GROSS! I'd forgotten the name of it and always thought about it as that super-gory invisible brain and spinal cord monster movie. Didn't see it again for many years, and when I finally did see it again, I really enjoyed it again and ever since. One of my top fifties monster movies of all time. Goes well with Day of the Triffids, Giant Gila Monster, Them, Beginning of the End, and Five Million Years to Earth (Quatermass and the Pit)
P.S. Love the new couch!
A favorite of mine, along with The Killer Shrews, that was on the local horror movie weekend time slots. I always checked the TV Guide to mark off what not to miss in the upcoming week!
"Or, who knows? Maybe it'll be enough to raise Barbara's Brother from the grave."
OH! How could you miss that Night of the Living Dead reference?
"They're coming to get you, Barbara..."
This movie is practically perfect as 50s horror cheese. It's actually well done, well acted and the monsters are disgusting and really effective for the time.
This would make a great double bill with "The Brain From Planet Arous."
"Your feelings of helplessness are your best friends, savage"
Yep, the best film without the word 'Brain' billed with the worst film with the word 'Brain' in it
Fun fact, Lines from "The Brain from the Planet Arous" are used for the Soundtrack of Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge
BRAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!
I wonder if Tim Burton saw this movie when he was young. Those stop-motion brains appear familiar to me somehow. Great review as always Brandon!
You're right! One of the animated statues at the climax of Beetlejuice looks like it was modeled after the brain creatures in this film. Good call!
@@KRhetor exactly! I knew I saw something like that! Thank you!
This is one of John Carpenter's favorite movies, and you can tell. Unfortunately, judging by some of the comments below, too many of today's horror and sci-fi "fans" don't appreciate how important these movies were in setting the stage for later favorites.
I still wanna know if Sam Raimi was a fan...
@@TheBrandonTenold He most likely was, as he grew up with these movies on Detroit TV. The Evil Dead Companion was written by Bill Warren, who also wrote Keep Watching the Skies, THE definitive book on 50s science fiction film.
Just another guy chiming in to say how much I have always loved this movie. (And it's short too!) A particularly funny review, Brandon, thank you.
I first heard of this movie from James Rolfe's "Monster Madness: Camp Cult", and then I saw it on an episode of "Svengoolie". A really fun cult movie, especially for the brain monsters and the gore. Not to mention the sounds they made. Great Review.
I like the couch. It's simple yet matches the room. You got good taste, Brandon. 👍
Hopping soldiers up on speed seems to be a long tradition in the military.
Ah, drugs in the military 🪖
Where would Captain America be without them!
@@thatonea-hole that was good..
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue."
Brandon and Red letter are the best film channels on TH-cam! Hello Brandon.
Believe it or not, this film actually got a Criterion Collection DVD release back in 2007. Not too shabby for a low-budget B-movie. And yes, it did in fact get an "X" certificate in Britain because of the gory special effects (for its time).
First time I saw it was when a checked the criterion DVD from my local library because the title sound cool and wasn't a monster flick I had seen.
The X From Outer Space also got a Criterion release!
@@KRhetor yeah, it was part of a box set called When Came to Shochiku. It is a great set if I remember right.
It is on the Criterion Channel right now.
And funny thing is, nowadays, X ratings are only reserved for porn
Congrats on the convention gig, Brandon. That's kind of a big deal. You deserve it - you do an immense amount to keep interest in these movies alive for new generations.
For a minute there I thought maybe Brandon had branched out to reviewing obscure bands.
And yes, there is a band called "Fiend Without a Face"
They should go on tour with Phantom Planet.
One of the better ones. I remember hearing about it when I was a kid and thinking, "Yeah, right, like they'd make a movie like that." And then holy smokes. Just like with Attack of the Killer Shrews and Tommy.
Apart from the Night of the Living Dead, it also reminds me of of Forbidden Planet with the monster of the ID coming from the professor's mind (radiation replacing the krell's technology) and the monsters also have a baby Alien touch with their tail around their victim's neck. Pretty decent 50's movies anyway. I knew only the title: thanks you Brandon !
I remember seeing this movie referenced a few times as a kid, but until I saw it years later, I always kinda assumed it HAD to be fake. Killer brains? Who'd even think of that outside parody, I thought. But, it is a fun lil movie, and glad to see your take on it. Also, couch is nice.
Edit for grammar lol
It's related to a fake movie in The Iron Giant. Now I know it could have been based off a real movie.
Now what would happen if the killer brains suddenly meet zombies?
Every time I think of this movie title, I hear Billy Idol singing, "Fiend Without a Face" instead of eyes. . .
The monster in this movie “scared the crap out of me” when I saw it as a child.
Brave Heart was one of the best Canadian movies, almost as Canadian as Cáca Milis, but the cake movie had better accents. Brave Heart got the accents close, but the cake movie was like taking a vacation in the great white north, but Cáca Milis also helps to point out how rude Canadians can be... Pretty dark, if not artsy for a true story.
Yes! Brandon has been killing it lately with these older flicks. I can't wait for Criterion to finally upgrade this one to Blu-Ray. It is totally worth trudging through ol' everyman Marshall Thompson and his overwhelming blandness for the pure ridiculousness and gooey brain monsters!
You dissing Daktari? Ouch!
So the movie's monsters are initially invisible to the naked human eye, but once they're exposed to some intense, superheated radiation, they're supercharged so that they become visible.
I appreciate the Sam Raimi/Evil Dead reference, but I wonder if the writers of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within were also influenced by this movie...
A friend of mine wondered since the old scientist created them with his mind, by killing the scientist you should have killed the 'Fiends' too!
This movies badass!!! Always loved the stop motion. Nice pick, sir!
Fiend Without a Face is one of the best 50s black and white sci-fi horror film of 1958, such as between The Bride and the Beast and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.
Getting From Beyond vibes with those brains!
I loved this movie, always wanted a Remake with better effects.
The world needs more Brain Monster Movies
Starship Troopers 1? :P
Fallout mod?
Holy crap, I think I saw this on TV as a kid! Seeing the brain creatures brought it all back..... and hey, nice couch!!
As a British person, that all sounds like normal Canadian accents to me. If I closed my eyes, it would be impossible to know which bits are from the film and which are from Brandon. Yup.
"which are from Brandon" You mean Brandon, Manitoba...right?
Reminds me of the Sherlock Holmes movie "The Scarlet Claw" where the Canadian accents are a mix of Irish & Scottish, to my ears at least! 😁
This was “one of my favorite monster movies” as a child. It really scared me back then and I thought the creature effects were really cool.
To be fair, the only Canadians many Brits back then ever met (unless they were in the military in WWII) were probably Newfoundlanders or Nova Scotians due to relative proximity and maritime traffic, and folks there do have a bit o' the brogue, especially the older generations back then. Probably very few Brits had actually heard the accent of folks living in the middle of the country.
It's still pretty funny, though. It comes off as if the Brits thought, "We're portraying a community of hicks in a country we hold as a crown dominion. So... Irish?"
"Irish."
I was born in 1971, and catching this in Detroit from the old Sir Graves Ghastly show one Saturday evening was my introduction to this movie, I was around 5 years old tops, ha. Now look at me.....
That's DEFINITELY where Sam Raimi saw it!
90% of all Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border.
Thanks!
Build a wall 😝
New couch looks great! I was grabbing my controller to put on another video and I realized it wasn’t done and froze. My wife was super confused how I knew something was up lol
I used to love this movie as a kid! It gave me nightmares! The monster was so gruesome for a 7 yr old me.
I use to watch this and Brain From Planet Arous a ton with my uncle as a kid. Good old days when I'd sneak into his room to watch his other horror movies.
This movie is legendary in my family. My uncle scared the shit out of my grandfather with this movie. My uncle said it was worth the beating! Lol The movie is known as Brain And Spinalcord here in South Central Pennsylvania!
18:05 Great couch, Brandon. Nice upgrade. :)
Good Fiend find! I got put on to this film many years ago, by a great book called Them or Us: Archetypal Interpretations of Fifties Alien Invasion Films, by Patrick Lucanio. By the time he had put 1950s movies like this through the Jungian wringer, they sort of seem like the deepest, most meaningful films ever! They're not. That feeling fades away. But - the gore factor (very late) sure sets this one apart. I would have thought this film would have been a no-brainer for the censor board of the day...
When this flick was in theaters, they had a caged "fiend" in the lobby.
I saw this one for the first time recently. The last twenty minutes or so are reminiscent of David Lynch's early short films (if something can be reminiscent of art that came after it). Truly unsettling.
Excellent timing, Brandon. I've been looking after my sick mother and have needed something to lift my spirits.
I do like the killer brains even if the animation reminds me of Red Dwarf for some reason.
Care for an explanation?
I think the movements are very similar and the glossy look to the brains looks like something I’d see on Red Dwarf. AlsoI could see them having the brains explode, except on Red Dwarf they’d all get sprayed with goo.
I really wish they'd reboot this its looks so fun.
This. Was my favorite movie when I was a boy. I really can't explain how it even happened that I saw it, but I still could watch this sh*t over and over and have no shame about it.
Edit: It's a lovely couch.
Really enjoy your reviews, good luck at the convention..
A fiend shows up in Beetlejuice (as one of Catherine O'Hara's sculptures).
The other one seems to be modeled on The Tingler.
I haven't seen this film since I was 10!!!! This film scared the Hell out of me back then!
Creatures of the Id? Also, with apologies to MST3K: "I knew it. They were too cheap to hire villains." Also, how did I know she was going to let her hair down as the film went on? This film would have been better if everybody sounded like Bob and Doug MacKenzie. And no, it didn't sound like Hormel chili - it sounded like Hormel chili going through your intestine.
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The critters may have been inspired by the monsters from the id featured in Forbidden Planet.
I have to say, these are some impressively creative monsters.
This was the first horror movie I ever saw. I'm not going to say watched, because I was legit terrified of the brains as a 6 year old.
... because when we're 6 we're ALLOWED to have creativity and imagination in our heads.....
Nice. As you made the tim Allen joke I was grunting as soon as I heard “more power”
I just confused this movie with "The Tingler" lol (hey, now that's a movie worth covering if you haven't already that is!)
Awesome color trip scene. Made before it was deemed illegal I think.
I definitely won't be able to go to the convention, but it's great to see you growing up like this
Conventions, his one weakness!
Love your videos, friend. I started watching your channel in 2017 after I came to Canada from Nigeria and I am still a fan. You are one of the few retro and schlock movie reviewers who still focuses on entertaining the audience while enjoying the movies and you are genuine (which I greatly appreciate) Keep it up, friend.
Thanks! Maybe one day I'll get to a Nigerian movie on my show.
@@TheBrandonTenold Oh thanks! Feel free to be as irreverent and comedic as you are with other movies. Trust me, we Nigerians are not woke and we actually enjoy it when folks talk about our media in good humor.
You mentioned Sam Raimi, but the premise also has a David Cronenberg vibe.
Especially with brains blowing up!
I think Night of the Living Dead is in between Raimi and this in the chain.
Light grey couches look kind of cheap. Maybe bonded leather? Great video. I love the film.
I've actually seen that "classic" before. It's not bad it all. Nice couch. Definitely made them invisible to save some money. Is it me or were only "Canadians" characters killed? I always love how 50's sci-fi movies logic. Monsters? Dynamite the reactor.?? "Maybe I can control them." ?? "There brains and spinal cords are gone." Radiation.
No more worse than the logic (or lack thereof) in contemporary films.
It never explains how the brains are getting out someone's brain/spinal cord from their head and spine by leaving the body totally intact
@@KRhetor true that but the 50's made like a more innocent type of nonsensical leap where today's films sometimes make it insulting
@@christopherengel7436 I see you also just saw Moonfall. :)
This movie scared me to death as a child. For some reason, I want to revisit this fear...
So he stops the brain monsters…presumably by making a Canadian Chernobyl. Overkill much?
I thought it was The Brain From Planet Auros for a moment. Now THAT was weird.
When even the back of the DVD cover ends describing the plot with "we are not joking" you know it's special.
Invisible thought monsters? So they´re the Id from Forbidden Planet?
I was thinking the same thing.
Never seen this movie...but love the Misfits song.
He might have been only one letter away from being a friend without a face, but he was also just two letters away from the Fiend Without A Fiance! Which might be a lot worse.
Overall, I'd say he did OK.
But also, was not Forbiddy Plantain also 1958 and also with invisible monster?
Plus I can't help but think the brainy-spiney things are VERY face-hugger...
Great alternate title for Forbidden Planet. From now on I'm calling it Forbiddy Plantain 🤣👍
Thank you good sir. Great content as always.
Let all make Brandon the new host of MST3K
I mean he would be a better host than the one they used for the Netflix revival series!
@@thatonea-hole to be fair it's tough to top Mike
This scared the heck out of me when I was a kid the sound of them moving, my sister use to imitate it and scare me. Good review
Holy cow! This movie is based on ancient Greek rituals to summon "thought elementals" boosted by atomic power. I demand a reboot!
I remember the first time I saw those things, it was in the Area 52 scene in Loony Tunes: Back in Action movie where Marvin busted out every alien in the building and started a massive prison riot. After that it was this movie and you better believe my mind was doing some Einstein level equations to try and figure out how the hell that happened.