A plastic surgeon with a seriously disfigured daughter, experiments on beautiful young women by removing their faces and attempting to graft them onto his daughter's face.
Expecting the worst with that subject matter, I was surprised that this turned out to be the horror classic everyone for years has claimed it to be. All the archetypes are here, the mad scientist, the mad scientist's assistant, the beautiful women being experimented on. Eyes Without a Face is really an old 1930's Universal horror film updated for the 1960's and given a very classy treatment by the director Georges Franju.
Franju really walked the line between gruesome and tragic with his production team. On the writing credits were Boileau-Narcejacv the writers than had worked with Clouzot on Les Diaboliques and had written the original story for Hitchock's Vertigo. The cinematography was by Eugen Schüfftan who had worked on Lang's Metropolis. Franju had some major talent backing him up when he made this film.
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| Franju directs |
Probably as influential as everyone says it is, this is an extremely well done film considering the subject matter.
88 minutes
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