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MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob, Alida Valli, François Guérin, Alexandre Rignault, Béatrice Altariba, Juliette Mayniel, and Claude Brasseur
In this classic 1959 horror film a father's love for his daughter becomes a nightmarish obsession, as the father, a plastic surgeon, sacrifices many innocent girls in his attempt to reconstruct his once-beautiful daughter's disfigured face.
| GENRE(S): | Foreign | Horror | Suspense/Thriller |
| WRITTEN BY: |
Jean Redon (novel)
Thomas Narcejac (adaptation) Pierre Boileau (adaptation) Pierre Gascar (dialogue) and Claude Sautet |
| DIRECTED BY: | Georges Franju |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 19, 2004 Video: January 9, 2001 Theatrical: October 31, 2003 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 88 minutes, B/W |
| ORIGIN: | France / Italy |
| LANGUAGE(S): | French (with English subtitles) |
Original title "Les Yeux Sans Visage"; Also know as "The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus"
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The average user rating for this movie is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Yoon Min C. gave it a 9:
Perhaps the greatest work of Clinical Horror, possibly one of the influences on Cronenberg's Dead Ringers. Irksome and unsettling is that the unspeakable horror--murder and mutilation of the flesh--is carried out with cold, metallic precision by a doctor, a man of science. Yet, beneath that ratonal exterior burns the passionate, even tragic, dream to restore his daughter's face. The use of cold, sterile science upon the warm bleeding flesh illustrates the fear and ambivalence at the core of modernity, that of science's benefits and its utter ruthlessness; of the unstable barrier between reason and passion. As relevant to Nazi medical experiments to today's freemarket driven search for human perfection thru the surgical knife and genetic engineering.
Owen C. gave it a 10:
One of the eeriest films ever, period.
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