Eyes Without a Face
July 11th 2011 04:41
Director: George Franju
Screenplay: Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac, Jean Redon, Claude Sautet, Pierre Gascar (from the novel by Jean Redon) (original French title: Les Yeux Sans Visage)
Production: France/Italy
Year: 1959
Sub-genre tags: Psychological thriller, drama, mystery
Logline: A brilliant surgeon, helped by his assistant, kidnap beautiful young women. He then removes their faces and tries vainly to graft them onto the head of his beloved, disturbed and disfigured daughter.
Core cast: Edith Scob (Christiane), Pierre Brasseur (Doctor Genessier), Alida Valli (Louise), Juliette Mayniel (Edna), Francois Guerin (Jacques)
Memorable moment: The facial surgery scenes, and Christiane coming face(less) to face with one of her father's patients in the operating theatre.
Curious Facts: Originally released in the US in an edited version titled The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus - a very odd title considering there's no character named Dr. Faustus in the movie. Director John Carpenter once said that selecting the mask that Michael Myers wore in Halloween was influenced by Edith Scob's mask.
Intensity levels:
Blood & gore: low
Fear factor and/or frights: medium
Likelihood of bad dreams (disturbing content): medium
Horrorphile’s two cents: Christiane’s eventual control over her destiny is a powerful final act, and one to be recognized in the horror genre as a masterful conceit over the latter conventions and trappings of slasher flicks. Christiane’s moral ambiguity is what elevates Eyes Without a Face beyond the guise of its alluding confines.
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