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Les yeux sans visage (1960)

Unrated  |   |  Drama, Horror  |  24 October 1962 (USA)
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A brilliant surgeon, Dr. Génessier, helped by his assistant Louise, kidnaps nice young women. He removes their faces and tries to graft them onto the head on his beloved daughter Christiane... See full summary »

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Juliette Mayniel ...
Alexandre Rignault ...
Inspector Parot
Béatrice Altariba ...
Paulette (as Beatrice Altariba)
Charles Blavette ...
L'homme de la fourrière (as Blavette)
Claude Brasseur ...
Un inspecteur
Michel Etcheverry ...
Le docteur Lherminier - médecin légiste / Forensic surgeon
Yvette Etiévant ...
La mère (as Yvette Etievent)
René Génin ...
Emile Tessot
Lucien Hubert ...
Un homme au cimetière
Marcel Pérès ...
Un homme au cimetière (as Marcel Pères)
François Guérin ...
Jacques Vernon (as Francois Guerin)
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Storyline

A brilliant surgeon, Dr. Génessier, helped by his assistant Louise, kidnaps nice young women. He removes their faces and tries to graft them onto the head on his beloved daughter Christiane, whose face has been entirely spoiled in a car crash. All the experiments fail, and the victims die, but Génessier keeps trying.... Written by Yepok

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Drama | Horror

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24 October 1962 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus  »

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$19,628 (USA) (31 October 2003)

Gross:

$52,709 (USA) (28 November 2003)
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1.66 : 1
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Was chosen by Entertainment Weekly magazine as one of the "100 New Classics ranking as #74 in the June 20, 2008 issue. The issue ranked the greatest movies of the previous 25 years. See more »

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When the doctor parks in front of the morgue, his front wheels are turned left from backing up to the curve. In the next cut, when he leaves the car, the front wheels are straight. See more »

Quotes

Louise: She trusts you this time. I trust you.
Doctor Génessier: Me, I'm hoping, that's all.
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A masterpiece of horror and poetry
10 November 1999 | by (Dublin, Ireland) – See all my reviews

Along with THE SHINING, THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and PSYCHO, the best horror film ever made. Franju forsakes the usual signifiers of the genre - hurtling pace, quick editing, signalling music, hysterically scary scenes - in favour of a pace as funereal and petrified as its heroine's face. A soul-chilling film, seeped of all emotion, its scientific subject matter belies a timeless, complicated, non-judgemental Gothic fable about the destruction of innocence, the carelessness of masculine authority and the exploitation of women (especially in art). The many paralells with VERTIGO (the source novel was written by the same writers), the startling tree and animal imagery, the suspended dream logic and the perverse comic sense ensure this film as a classic, and makes one yearn for more Franju.


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