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©2000
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1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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Based on a story by Amelia Reynolds Long
A scientist performing renegade research on thought materialization unwittingly creates creatures of pure atomic energy that hunger for human nervous systems. These brain-like creatures begin attacking people near a secret Air Force radar station, devouring their brains
Originally released as a motion picture in 1958
Liner notes by noted film scholar Bruce Kawin, inserted
Special features include: Audio commentary: A conversation with executive producer Richard Gordon and genre film writer Tom Weaver ; a collection of trailers from Godon films: Fiend without a face, The haunted strangler, Corridor's of blood, First man into space, and The atomic submarine ; rare still photographs and ephemera, with commentary ; vintage advertisements and lobby cards
Special effects, Ruppel & Nordhoff, Peter Neilson ; music, Buxton Orr, conducted by Frederic Lewis ; editing, R.Q. McNaughton
Marshall Thompson, Kynaston Reeves, Kim Parker, Stanley Maxted, Terence Kilburn, James Dyrenforth, Robert MacKenzie, Peter Madden, Gil Winfield
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Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired