#Faceless monster driver#

She says that she was the object of Quintillus' affections in ancient Pompeii, but asks 'How can I return his love? I am an aristocrat. Emanuel hypnotically regresses Tina and plays a recording for Paul. His being more-or-less alive is explained by Fiorillo, who says that he was preserved by radioactivity in the volcanic ash and that he has been revitalized by the X-rays used to study him.Įmanuel takes Tina to the 'Cove of the Blind Fisherman', which she says people fled into while trying to escape the volcano's ancient eruption, even though she has never heard of the cove before. Quintillus is taken back to the museum and strapped down to prevent him escaping again. When Paul recovers and everyone arrives at Tina's, they find a motionless Quintillus at her feet. Quintillus knocks Paul unconscious, breaks through a door and heads for Tina's apartment. Paul strikes him with an axe without making a scratch. Quintillus gets up, picks up the brooch and approaches them menacingly. To confirm that Quintillus can move, the scientists place the brooch near him. By the time help arrives, Quintillus is again immobile. Tina faints, Quintillus kills the watchman, then places the bronze brooch on Tina's jacket. She screams, a watchman runs in and shoots Quintillus, but the bullets have no effect. That night, Tina sneaks in to sketch Quintillus. The police investigating the truck crash discount Paul's comment that the driver's blood is literally on Quintillus's hands, and Inspector Rinaldi orders the museum closed until the murderer is caught. Paul confirms everything that she tells him and grows worried when she says that Quintillus is coming for her. It is a portrait of Quintillus, who she knows only from her dreams. Tina Enright, an artist and Paul's fiancée, shows him her latest painting. It is a curse placed on his owners by Quintillus Aurelius, the gladiator who is now the faceless monster, somehow reanimated after 2,000 years. Emanuel translates the Etruscan writing found on a bronze brooch that was inside the jewel box. Fiorillo tells Paul that he is not certain that the body is in fact dead, something Paul scoffs at, even though he finds fresh blood on its hands. Without witnesses, no one fully understands what has happened. Afterwards, the body, apparently dead again, is found several meters away from the wrecked truck.

#Faceless monster driver#

En route to the Museo di Napoli, the body comes to life and kills the driver of the truck that is transporting it. 79, who returns to life in modern times to find the reincarnation of the woman he loves.ĭuring an archeological dig at Pompeii, a worker uncovers a jewel box and the calcified body of a gladiator. The film's storyline concerns a Roman gladiator, buried alive in Pompeii during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. by United Artists as a double feature with It! The Terror from Beyond Space.

The film was theatrically released in the U.S. Science fiction writer Jerome Bixby wrote the screenplay. Cahn, that stars Richard Anderson, Elaine Edwards, Adele Mara, and Luis van Rooten. Curse of the Faceless Man is a 1958 independently made American low-budget black-and-white horror film, produced by Robert E.