Review of Eyes Without a Face (1960) by Morgan O — 13 Nov 2009

I loved the plot of this film! I am recentely into French films and this one really caught my eye. I thought that for a movie made in 1960 that it would not be very scary I was very surprised. This film gave about the same scariness as "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte".

Had it been made today it would have been much, much scarier. I wish I could have seen what Christaine looked like without the mask on, because what Edna saw was very blurry. Christaine's face was really not the scary part, it was more when Dr.

Genessier starts taking off Edna's face and when Christiane set all the animals free and they attacked her father. I liked how nobody ever noticed that it was the Doctor who was kidnapping the women but they always came across the fact that there was a woman wearing a pear choker (the nurse, Louise).

I also thought that it was comical when the police come to the clinic and the doctor is in full operation garb and no one bothers to find that very suspicious. Also this movie has a pretty accurate use of chloroform in it.

When you are at the title menu of the film and you see something called "the Blood of Beasts" I would really advise you not to watch it. I wasn't really sure what it was, and I selected it, and it turned out to be a documentary on Parisian slaughterhouses.

It is very gory! The people shoot the horse and then just slice it open to drain out the blood. I have to say it did not look like what I saw in the Emipire Strikes Back when Han Solo cuts open the Tauntaun for warmth, not even close.