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Eyes Without A Face (1960)
Topic Started: Apr 14 2013, 05:45 AM (193 Views)
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The Devil Himself
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A brilliant surgeon, Dr. Génessier, helped by his assistant Louise, kidnaps nice young women. He removes their faces and tries to graft them onto the head on his beloved daughter Christiane, whose face has been entirely spoiled in a car crash. All the experiments fail, and the victims die, but Génessier keeps trying....
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Huge fan of this film. A masterpiece. 10/10
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Bump.
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Wow this sounds really good
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This film is a masterpiece. One of my favorite movies of all-time in any genre. You should watch it.
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I will
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Killer's Nemesis
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I'm not sure I'd like this.
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Killer's Nemesis
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I still don't think I'd like this: the description alone makes me unnerved.
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This really sounds gross which draws me in
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One of my favorite movies ever. Beautiful, bleak and disturbing. A 10/10 no doubt.
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Killer's Therapist
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This one is a slightly overrated classic. Among the few enjoyable aspects here is the rather free and easy-going the themes are here which makes for a wholly decent enough time. The fact that this one has a really spectacular surgery scene is a big part of that in the film, being long, graphic, brutal and very detailed as it features the pre-surgery, the actual cutting into the skin and several aftermath shots of the bloody face. This is a really strong sequence, and that it's so long and features a lot more graphic moments, even goes as far as it does in the aftermath shots than most other surgery scenes at the time is something to be applauded. The few times where it's shown, the mask actually gets a little unsettling at times which is quite shocking with the angular, slick features and completely deaden face make it really disturbing while getting some chilling moments from the mask. As well,there's the pretty tense and chilling stalking scenes throughout here where they happen upon the victims in the middle of town, while the last good factor is the finale where she lets the dogs loose in the facility where they overrun the others left there which are the only good points of the film. This one here doesn't have very many flaws, but they are pretty big ones. A really big problem here is the fact that the film doesn't feel like a horror film at all as despite the surgery scene, this one provides nothing else for horror fans. Instead, this plays out as a traditional drama about a doctor's struggle to get his daughter to approve of the realities of the surgery while attempting to hide this factor from his everyday professional abilities rather than a horror film, as there's a huge series of scenes that basically aren't even played out to be chilling. That is a major problem, since it never really tries to be scary or chilling for most of the film, and that is especially damaging as if the film fails for the fact that it never tries to begin with as instead this play out like a completely different genre rather than what it really should. This is reflected in the next flaw, the film's terribly slow pacing as this one drags on forever it takes longer to get started, has a penchant for going off into plots that mean nothing and doesn't seem concerned with much going on rather than opting for conversations stating the obvious. Moreover, none of what's left to concentrate on seems important anyway due to the fact that there's such little urgency in anything that it really feels like no one cares so it falls onto the viewer as well.These two big flaws are incredibly damaging to the film and really make it seem overrated.
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Ugh. Ever since I was a child, the ideas behind this film always creeped me the hell out.
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