10 Gloriously Schlocky 1950s B Movies You Have To See

Fiend Without a Face is one of those movies that goes back and forth between "so bad it's good" and just being genuinely good. It makes for a great watch today because it's packed to the brim with genuinely effective moments, and then scenes that are just so dated and schlocky that they add to the charm.

This is basically another killer brain movie, but for most of the running time, the creatures are completely invisible. All you can see is people screaming in pain and collapsing while seemingly nothing is around them. As it turns out, they're being killed by these monsters who suck the victims' brain and spinal cords from their body, but they're only made visible at the very end. They were created by a scientist in an overly complicated telekinesis experiment, but they feed on - what else - radiation! Of course. 

The first 50 minutes is full of bad dialogue and overacting, but it's the finale that makes it all worthwhile, a massive Evil Dead style standoff with the brains where blood flies everywhere. In the end, they defeat the brains by blowing up a nuclear power plant. Hang on, these things feed on radiation, so wouldn't blowing up the power plant just give them more of it? The film wraps up so quickly that it hopes you don't think about that.