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Marcus Killerby
18Apr13
The score fluctuates between being silly and inappropriate to being dreamy and creepy. When it is the latter it lends the film a fairy tale quality. The face removal scene and subsequent face deterioration sequence are fantastic. And that ending is bizarre without seeming to try hard to be. The weakest point of the film is the utterly useless police force, worse than useless they are morally reprehensible. 4/5
TrevorK
8Dec12
I went to a screening of this where they showed Le sang des bêtes right before. Probably the most effective programming I've ever experienced. It was like a prelude to a concerto. The whole time I kept thinking of the slaughterhouse and it made my heart that much more uncomfortable. Shows you how much truth there is in the statement I heard somewhere that we bring all our past to the films we watch.
Matthew_Lucas
8Oct12
Georges Franju's chilling horror classic about a mad surgeon who removes the faces of young women in an attempt to replace the scarred face of his cloistered daughter whose death he fakes to cover up one of his murders. Horrifying in its detail, EYES WITHOUT A FACE is an unnerving serial killer film with a remarkable central performance. Never has a blank mask been so eerily expressive.
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The Obscure
18Aug12
Edith Scob moves about like a being from another world. The whole film maintains an unnerving atmosphere made better by its steady, slow pace.
ΞRIC B∆D TASTΞ
23Jun12
great & thrilling movie, with sadly not the best acting - too reserved sometimes.
starfield aurora
1Jun12
if this film impressed me when i first watched in 2010, then dear god, people must have went bananas when they saw it back in 1960
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.
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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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!