Eyes Without a Face

Name: Eyes Without a Face
Director: Georges Franju
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Released: 1960
Duration: 1 h 24 min
Rating: 7.584

The horror film with a heart of mystery.

1960·Directed by Georges Franju·3.9·1h 24m

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Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane’s.

Recommended by 6 People

“Beauty and the Beast may be tenuous and delicate where Eyes Without a Face is overripe and pulpish, but these films are gorgeous, dark poems about fragility and horror.”

Guillermo del Toro

Director, Producer, Writer

“Georges Franju's eerie, face-transplant melodrama has stuck in my memory since the first time I saw it as a freaked-out kid on late-night TV.”

Anthony Bourdain

Host, Writer

“I think it has one of the most beautiful artistic movie posters of all time.”

Mikey Madison

Actor

“This is an amazing film which my father used to talk about - the scariest film he ever saw was this black and white French film about a plastic surgeon taking the faces of car crash victims.”