Eyes Without a Face ( yeux sans visage, Les ) Movie Information

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Overall Rank: 992

Average Rating: 3/4

# of Ratings: 62

Theatrical Release Date: 12/31/1962

Language: French

Genre: Drama, Horror

MPAA Rating: NR

Director: Georges Franju

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Edith Scob, François Guérin, Alexandre Rignault

Plot: A doctor feels responsible for ruining his daughter's face in an accident - so much that she must wear a mask. He kidnaps young women with help from his assistant in order to remove their faces and graft it onto his daughter. Despite numerous failures, he refuses to give up, in his twisted mind it is all for his daughter. -- Chris Kavan

Indyfreak - wrote on 09/09/2024

A suitably creepy mask and an unhinged performance from Pierre Brasseur work as a team to keep this horror movie interesting.

Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 05/15/2023

Classy art with touches of body horror, "Eyes Without a Face" is poetic as often as it is shocking

Unknown - wrote on 09/07/2014

'Eyes Without A Face' evokes realistic horrors through the means of medical science. Characters become villainous when driven to extremes in an attempt to regain normality. There's elements of the grotesque mixed with the melancholy. A more dramatic slow-paced watch than expected. It's a shocker that is not entirely genre specific, but it definitely delivers the shocks. Subtle moments of beauty throughout add a special eeriness to the offsetting nature of the story.

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Der wahnsinnige Professor

cinegeek.de - wrote on 03/19/2016

Our Daily Free Stream: Georges Franju - Eyes without A Face (engl. subt.). Our Daily Free Stream: Georges Franju - Eyes without A Face (engl. subt.). Professor Genessier zeigt tiefe Reue und er hat allen Grund dazu. Führt aber Reue auch dazu, sein Handeln zu verändern? Genessier ist Spezialist für Transplantationen. Er ist imstande, lebendes Gewebe von einer Person auf eine andere zu übertragen. Beide Menschen bleiben bei dieser Operation am Leben. Nachdem seine Tochter einen schrecklichen Autounfall erleidet, entscheidet er, das Gesicht einer anderen Frau zu transplantieren. Pierre Brasseur spielt den wahnsinnigen Professor, das Herz von Georges Franjus gnadenlosem Horrorfilm aus dem Jahr 1960 (den auch immer der Hauch der Nouvelle Vague umgab). Einst war er ein geachteter Chirurg, …