Eyes Without A Face

At the center of this eerie, poetic horror thriller is famed plastic surgeon Dr. Genessier (Pierre Brasseur), who, obsessed with reconstructing the disfigured face of his daughter Christiane (Edith Scob), sends his loyal female assistant (Alida Valli) to the Sorbonne to lure young women to his laboratory. Dr. Genessier then proceeds to remove their faces in an attempt to graft the flesh onto Christiane's accident-scarred visage--hidden behind a mask that reveals only her melancholy eyes. Adapted by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac (who collaborated on DIABOLIQUE and VERTIGO) from a novel written by Jean Redon, THE HORROR CHAMBER OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS is a blood-curdlin...