My dad took me and all the kids at my birthday party to see this when I was a kid.

Fiend Without a Face is a 1958 British black-and-white science fiction film directed by Arthur Crabtree. It tells the story of mysterious deaths at the hands of an invisible life-form that steals human brains and spinal columns. The film is based upon Amelia Reynolds Long's 1930 short story "The Thought Monster", originally published in Weird Tales magazine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiend_Without_a_Face

Uber cheesy!

Somehow, I think he was a better actor than his movies but they were wonderfully schlocky. I loved the Tingler, The house On Haunted Hill, and the House Of Wax. My favorite was The Last Man On Earth (1964), a zombie picture that had a definite influence on the later Night Of The Living Dead (based on the novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson).

"Ultimately, however, it's all about the gimmick. In House on Haunted Hill, Castle had theaters rig skeletons to glide over the heads of the audience at a certain point in the film. For the climax of The Tingler, where the creature gets loose in a movie theater, Castle had theater owners hire a plant in the audience to faint on cue and get carried out by doctors (not real ones, of course). But that was just the appetizer. For the main course he unleashed "Percepto," a fancy name for a small, motorized vibrator placed under selected theater seats and wired to the projection booth. It was carefully timed to a key scene where the tingler crawls across the projector lens just before the screen goes black and the booming voice of Vincent Price entreats audiences not to panic, but to "Scream - scream for your lives!" Cue Percepto, which goosed the audience into playing along. "In the final count, I think we must have buzzed 20,000,000 behinds," writes Castle in his biography, a possibly inflated number, but then would you expect any different from a born self-promoter?"


http://wtkr.com/2013/10/24/dogs-best-friend-woman-carries-wounded-pit-bull-down-mountain/

I mean, LSD and a spine lobster! What's not to love?

I'd love to have seen what it was like when they showed it in the theaters with seats that were wired to vibrate when the Tingler got loose. Can you imagine someone doing that nowadays?

Hey,
I love that movie, that would have been a fun one to see in the rigged theaters. The title of the movie is awesome too.

Peace

Sound of Music. That's where we were.