| Eyes without a face - Les Yeux Sans Visage (1962)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Pierre Brasseur |
Prof. Genessier
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| Alida Valli |
Louise
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| Edith Scob |
Christiane Genessier
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| Francois Guerin |
Jacques Vernon
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| Juliette Mayniel |
Edna Gruber
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| Beatrice Altariba |
Paulette
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| Alexandre Rignault |
Insp. Parot
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| Marcel Pérès |
Forensic surgeon
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| Claude Brasseur |
Inspector
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| Lucien Hubert |
Emile Tessot
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| François Guérin |
Jacques Vernon
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| Béatrice Altariba |
Paulette
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| Charles Blavette |
L´homme de la fourrière
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| Plot |
| French director Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux sans Visage) is an unsettling, sometimes poetic horror film. Pierre Brasseur plays a brilliant plastic surgeon who has vowed to restore the face of his daughter Edith Scob, who was mutilated in an automobile accident. With the help of his assistant (Alida Valli), he kidnaps young women, surgically removes their facial features, and attempts to graft their beauty onto his daughter's hideous countenance. This naturally has an adverse effect on the "donors", some of whom commit suicide rather than go through life faceless. Franju's haunting, muted handling of basic horror material is what lifts Eyes Without a Face out of the ordinary and into the realm of near-classic. When the film failed to draw crowds under its original title, however, the distributors decided to exploit it as a two-bit "scare" flick with the new title The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus. — Hal Erickson |
| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Foreign; Horror; Thriller |
| Director |
Georges Franju |
| Producer |
Jules Borkon |
| Writer |
Pierre Boileau; Pierre Gascar; Thomas Narcejac |
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| Studio |
Lux Productions |
| Country |
France
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| Language |
French |
| Audience Rating |
PG-13 |
| Running Time |
84 mins |
| Movie Release Date |
10/24/1962 |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
No |
| Index |
381 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Purchase Date |
12/7/2004 |
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| Product Details |
| Edition |
Criterion Collection |
| Region |
 Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
 Widescreen 1.66:1 B&W (Anamorphic) |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
037429195727 |
| Release Date |
2004 |
| Subtitles |
English |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
 FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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Blood Of The Beasts (Le Sang de betes), Georges Franju's 1949 short documentary about the slaughterhouses of Paris
Archival interviews with Franju on horror, cinema and the making of Blood of the Beasts
Excerpt from Les Grands-peres du crime, a documentary featuring Eyes Without a Face writers Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac (Diabolique, Vertigo)
Theatrical Trailers
Stills gallery of rare production photos and promotional material
New essays by novelist Patrick McGrath and writer and film historian David Halat |
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