which failed to generate much audience interest. Remakes On 22 March 2010, Roy Frumkes confirmed to Fangoria magazine that he planned to produce a remake of the film in 2011. The online website Dread Central offered an October 2013 update from Frumkes on his Fiend Without a Face remake: The website also posted a still from a fundraising trailer that Frumkes had shot for the remake with director Franco Frassetti. As of January 2019, that remake has yet to materialize. Montreal-based filmmaker Rémi Fréchette produced, co-wrote and directed a web series (2013) and a horror comedy feature film (2014), both called Les Jaunes, which shared the themes and images of Fiend Without a Face, including the military aspects, rural setting, and energy-based brain creatures. In Les Jaunes, an epidemic of yellow crawling brains threatens the lives of the inhabitants of Fort Vince, a reclusive Northern Quebec town. Home media The Criterion Collection, a video company known for its painstaking restorations of various film classics, released a deluxe DVD edition of Fiend Without a Face in 2007, having previously released it on LaserDisc. A high-definition video transfer, created on a Spirit DataCine from a 35 mm film print, was struck from the film's original negative. Thousands of pieces of dirt, debris and scratches were removed using the MTI Digital Restoration System. For optimal image quality, Criterion also encoded the dual-layer DVD-9 at the highest possible bit rate. The film's original monaural soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit, and audio restoration tools were used to eliminate clicks, pops, hisses and crackles. Criterion added these bonus DVD features to their release: A new widescreen 1.66: 1 transfer with a complete digital picture restoration enhanced for 16×9 hi-def televisions. Audio commentary: a conversation with executive producer Gordon and genre film writer Tom Weaver. An illustrated essay on British science fiction/horror film making by film historian Bruce Eder. A collection of movie trailers from various Gordon films: Fiend without a Face, The Haunted Strangler, Corridors of Blood, First Man into Space and The Atomic Submarine. Rare still photographs and ephemera, with audio commentary. Vintage advertisements and lobby cards. New English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired. A new DVD cover art design by David Cohen. Notes References Bibliography Maltin, Leonard. Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2009. New York: New American Library, 2009 (originally published as TV Movies, then Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide), First edition