Curse of the Faceless Man

1958

Action / Adventure / Horror / Sci-Fi

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Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 21% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.8/10 10 1231 1.2K

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Plot summary

A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...


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Richard Anderson as Dr. Paul Mallon
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MartinHafer 5 / 10

Pretty silly...though enjoyable.

"The Curse of the Faceless Man" is a rather inconsequential yet enjoyable horror film from the 1950s. It stars Richard Anderson of "The Six Million Dollar Man" fame.

The story begins with a body and a box of jewels being found in the ruins of Pompeii. This isn't that unusual. But the body itself is silly because it looks exactly like the ones they have on display there...but those are actually plaster casts of the bodies which had long disintegrated. Inexplicably, this is supposed to be an entire person....and looks exactly like one of the casts. However, it holds a secret...it's not quite dead! And, it has a murderous appetite if anyone comes between it and his beloved...much like in the old classic horror film "The Mummy".

So is it any good? Well, I must say that the costume looked really good. As far as the plot and dialog go, they are, of course, quite silly. But many folks (like me) like schlocky old 50s horror pictures...and it's well worth seeing and reasonably entertaining. Far from perfect, and with needless narration, it's worth seeing if you like this sort of nonsense.

Reviewed by mark.waltz 4 / 10

Getting stoned can be a rocky experience.

It took the mountains to move to turn this man into rock, but somehow, 2000 late years later, his joints can move when he is pulled out of his volcanic dust hole. It's obvious a man in a full body costume, and when he is discovered by someone digging at an old volcanic site as part of an excavation, a murderous rampage begins as a part of his attempt to reclaim jewels that were taken from his resting place.

Well structured with its introduction covering the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, this is a fun late '50s horror movie that in spite of some of the illogical details is easy to get into and enjoy. Richard Anderson, Elaine Edwards and Adele Mara are perfectly fine and some aging European character actors offer some enjoyable eccentric performances. The creature may not be as scary as Egyptian mummy's, but it certainly can induce nightmares as it stalks the streets of Pompeii looking for its jewels and claiming victims.

Reviewed by bkoganbing 3 / 10

Getting stoned in Pompeii

Curse Of The Faceless Man tells the story of a man encased in stone after the lava hit him at the destruction of Pompeii. He's been that way for almost 2000 years until an archaeological dig found him. But he's as dead as an unstaked vampire and he's carrying a 2000 year old itch that needs scratching.

I'm sure a lot of viewers spotted the parallels between this film and the classic Boris Karloff version of The Mummy. Both Karloff's Im Ho Tep and Quintillus Aurelius the gentleman caught in that lava flow are staking claim to a currently alive woman who is the reincarnated beloved of their ancient crushes.

The scientific explanations offered by Doctors Richard Anderson, Adele Mara, Luis Van Rooten, Felix Locher, and Gar Moore are really kind of sketchy. These players sure got nowhere near Naples on the budget this film had.

How did they destroy this man of stone? Here's a hint, he went the way of the Triffids.

Typical and cheap 50s science fiction.

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