Les yeux sans visage [videorecording DVD] = Eyes without a face / directed by Georges Franju ; screenplay adaptation by writers Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.
Title from container. Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob. Originally released as a motion picture in 1959. Special features include Blood of the beasts, Georges Franju's 1949 short documentary about the slaughterhouses of Paris; archival interviews with Franju on horror, cinema, and the making of Blood of the beasts; excerpt from Les grands-pè€res du crime; theatrical trailers, and stills gallery of rare production photos and promotional material.
Summary:
A plastic surgeon, holed up in a Paris mansion, is obsessively slicing off the faces of kidnapped women and grafting the flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter, disfigured in an automobile accident.
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