Eyes Without a Face1960

Name: Eyes Without a Face
Genre: Gothic, Body Horror, Psychological, Classic Monsters
Released: 1960-01-11
Rating: 7.9

“The horror film with a heart of mystery.”

Directed by Georges Franju

7.9

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 7.6Rotten Tomatoes 97%Metacritic 90TMDB 7.6

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Year

1960

Runtime

84 min

Box Office

Revenue (worldwide)

$58,656

Domestic

$58,565

The premise

Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.

Horror Vault's take

In the shadowy outskirts of Paris, a brilliant but tormented surgeon will stop at nothing to restore what he believes he stole from his beloved daughter — her face. Behind the walls of his grand estate, Christiane drifts like a ghost in a porcelain mask, unaware of the full price being paid for her father's devotion. Georges Franju's landmark French horror operates at a hauntingly quiet pitch, blending clinical coldness with genuine poetic dread. It remains one of cinema's most elegant and deeply disturbing portraits of love twisted into monstrosity.

Content: Graphic Surgical Procedure Depictions, Body Horror, Animal Experimentation Imagery, Kidnapping And Imprisonment Of Women