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Renee Hirshfield
12Apr12
Just what was in the international drinking waters in 1960? That three such masterpieces of perversity as EYES WITHOUT A FACE, PEEPING TOM, and PSYCHO should come out the same year is nothing short of mind-boggling.
Mr. Arkadin
11Apr12
Christiane glides around the first part of the film like a lurking, elongated ghost (her too-skinny neck and head sticking out of that high-collared housecoat like some alien's). Wonder if its connection to Conan Doyle's *Copper Beeches* could be proven––both contain a climax with the villainous father being attacked by a dog and a storyline that revolves around a mystery woman being held in her family's eerie home.
Becca Quie
8Apr12
The music is a little off-putting, the effects aren't great but this movie has a creepiness that just won't quit!
zondabez
4Jan12
Não crendo em coincidências, esse filme dialoga com a resenha anterior, "Seconds". Mas na visão de Franju, as tentativas de um clássico 'médico louco' em obter um novo rosto para sua filha resultam em experiências aterrorizantes com belas jovens francesas. O contraponto entre planos abertos e fechados, ruídos e silêncios em preto e branco constroem um clima soturno e fantástico. O medo aqui surge da simplicidade.
xrystyna
16Dec11
beautiful and inmpressive cinematography and a couple of really good scenes, however i wish actors were better. i'd say, 3,5 stars - but mubi doesn't give this possibility.
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Sadhaka
2Dec11
Hadn't seen this in quite a while. This time it really gave me an uncomfortable and disquieting feeling. Brilliantly executed... distilled terror.
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Chandler Swain
16May11
"The most poetic depiction of loneliness seen both as isolation caused by the loss of self in the physical sense and of the manifestation of isolation in the loss of self in the emotional sense through purgatorial guilt."
Gerry Miriello
6Feb11
I just watched this for the first time...it's an out-and-out masterpiece, and one I'll eventually own. Poetic, eerie, and unsettling, it really does stand as one of the essential movie experiences of the horror genre. Pauline Kael was right when she said that it was as if Bresson made a horror film. In lesser hands it would be forgettable schlock, instead it's just a timeless film.
GuyPutOutYourCampfire!
6Nov10
This movie is pretty cool, despite some dubious science. That mask is creepy!
Arisa
26Sep10
@Dalia: I completely agree! This is an absolutely beautiful horror movie. Georges Franju is a very talented filmmaker; his work is very moving. On the Criterion DVD for this film, there's also a short documentary of his about French slaughterhouses and it made me cry (and that's not the sort of thing that would usually bring me to tears).
Addiena of Mubi land
12Feb10
---SPOILER ALERT--- Despite of its plotholes (i.e using dogs as test subjects, not sure if their genes are anywhere near humans,etc), I pretty much enjoy the story, it's way out of its time. very well shot&directed. The atmosphere, the daughter is so strange and creepy..And woa..the ending..rreeaaallyy fascinates me!
Aphthonius Rhetor
6Feb10
Il est intéressant que la fille, qui voulait mourir, ne se suicide pas à la fin. Sa lente démarche dans les bois, ses yeux clairs derrière la masque pâle, un oiseau blanc sur la main -- une image bien inquiétante.
danhofstra
31Jan10
Fantastic, creepy film...so happy it's on here for free. I will definitely try to pick up the DVD when I see it.
Apollo Staar
29Jan10
Awesome. This film creepy without having to show special effects. That is the sign of a true classic.
kirkgremlin
29Dec09
i agree with the directors statement, about this not being a tale of horror, but a tale of anguish. very true.
