Curse Of The Faceless Man

Entombed for eons - turned to stone - seeking women, women, women!
What can be said about Curse of the Faceless Man (1958) that hasn't already been said? Apparently a lot, since I be the first to review it on the Amazon website...written by Jerome Bixby (It! The Terror from Beyond Space, Fantastic Voyage) and directed by schlockmeister extraordinaire Edward L. Cahn (The She-Creature, Dragstrip Girl, Invasion of the Saucer Men), the film stars Richard Anderson, whom most in my generation would recognize as Oscar Goldman from the mid 70s television series "The Six Million Dollar Man" (you're doing that bionic sound effect in your head right now, aren't you? Me too...). Also appearing is Elaine Edwards (Guns, Girls, and Gangsters, The Bat), Adele Mara (Sands of Iwo Jima, The Black Whip), Luis Van Rooten (The Big Clock, Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture), Felix Locher (Hell Ship Mutiny, Frankenstein's Daughter), Jan Arvan (The Sign of Zorro, The Poseidon Adventure), and Gar Moore (Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff).

As the...

your gripe is my joy
Everyone elses gripe is what I loved about it,This movie was so mindless and fun to have fun with,and then right after this one put in the Maze.WOW 10 stars

"It Moved!"...
At just over an hour in length, this movie gets right down to business! The FACELESS MAN is discovered in the ruins of Pompeii, and while being transported to the museum, he kills the truck driver. This all happens in the first ten minutes! THE CURSE OF THE FACELESS MAN has begun! The FACELESS MAN costume is above average, reminding me of pictures of the actual Pompeii disaster. He's pretty creepy when he starts moving around! Richard Anderson (FORBIDDEN PLANET) plays a scientist trying to discover the secrets within the being's volcanic crust. Unfortunately, ridiculous, unnecessary narration ruins some of the suspense. Still, there's enough good to outweigh this added rubbish...

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