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Eyes Without a Face (1960)

NR Jan 11, 1960 Drama, Horror, Thriller 1h 24m
User Score
76%
760 votes
Internet Movie Database
76%
Rotten Tomatoes
97%
Metacritic
9000%

Beautiful women were the victims of his fiendish facials.

Overview

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.

Georges Franju
Director
Thomas Narcejac
Screenplay
Claude Sautet
Screenplay
Pierre Boileau
Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Pierre Brasseur
Pierre Brasseur

Professor Génessier
Alida Valli
Alida Valli

Louise
Édith Scob
Édith Scob

Christiane Génessier
Juliette Mayniel
Juliette Mayniel

Edna Gruber
Alexandre Rignault
Alexandre Rignault

Inspector Parot
Béatrice Altariba
Béatrice Altariba

Paulette Mérodon
Charles Blavette
Charles Blavette

Man from the Pond
Michel Etcheverry
Michel Etcheverry

Doctor Lherminier, forensic surgeon
Claude Brasseur
Claude Brasseur

Police inspector

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Media

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Eyes Without a Face (1960) trailer
Eyes Without a Face (1960) trailer
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Reviews

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A review by John Chard
Written on March 12, 2014

How odd I should have to comfort you. You still have some hope, at least.

Les yeux sans visage (AKA: Eyes Without a Face) is directed by Georges Franju and collectively written by Franju, Jean Redon, Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac and Claude Sautet. It stars Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel and Francois Guerin. Music is by Maurice Jarre and cinematography by Eugen Schufftan.

Dr. Genessier (Brasseur) is wracked with guilt over the car accident he caused that saw his beloved daughter Christiane (Scob) suffer horrendous facial injuries. He has a notion to perform xenograft surgeries on female victims and transplant the face onto that of Christiane…

It sounds like a classic mad scientist movie, the sort where Peter Lorre stalks around the place with a devi...

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written on May 30, 2024

I don't think I've ever seen a film that marries the macabre and the gentle; the evil and the enlightened and the just plain horrifying in quite the way that Georges Franju does with this masterpiece. Pierre Brasseur as "Dr. Génessier" is simultaneously sinister, brutal, loving and tender as he uses every means at his disposal to try to correct an accident that has left his daughter "Christiane" (Edith Scob) disfigured. He will stop at nothing - quite literally - and the coup de grâce is still something that makes me shudder, even now. Not for the squeamish, nor is it gratuitous. It's just great....

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