EDITOR’S NOTE: The Face at the Window was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, January 23, 1977 as The Man With the Synthetic Brain.
Dr. Howard Vanard (John Carradine) implants a strange electronic machine into the brain of a Vietnam War survivor, Joe Corey (Roy Morton), who becomes a psychotic killer.
This is the same story that we saw in The Fiend With the Electronic Brain.
Joe Corey steals some diamonds and the jewels are thrown into the back of a pickup truck. They end up in a doll, which Linda and her daughter Nancy take to a cabin. A cop saves them by shooting Joe and the villain falls off a cliff to his demise.
This is the same story that we saw in Psycho-A-Go-Go.
Seven years later, Dr. Vanard’s daughter, Susan (Regina Carrol), begins getting psychic prank calls from Elton Corey (Kent Taylor) and his zombie Akro. Elton is the father of Joe and wants revenge on everyone connected with the death of his son. Sgt. Cross (Tommy Kirk) gets his partner’s head in the mail and tracks down the witch doctor mad scientist just in time to watch Akro kill Corey and die himself. Also, for some reason, they age Susan and turn her into a zombie, but she gets better.
This is not the same story.
The Man With the Synthetic Brain, however, is pretty much the same story without all the nightclub moments. That was Sam Sherman’s version for TV.
I have a weird way of thinking about movies. If a major studio did this, I would be angry. But when it’s Independent-International, I am so pleased with their ingenuity.
