At his secluded chateau in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor (Pierre Brasseur) attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of his daughter’s disfigured countenance—at a horrifying price. Eyes Without a Face, directed by the supremely talented Georges Franju, is rare in horror cinema for its odd mixture of the ghastly and the lyrical, and it has been a major influence on the genre in the decades since its release. There are images here—of terror, of gore, of inexplicable beauty—that once seen are never forgotten.

"The whole film has a ghastly elegance that often suggests Tennessee Williams in one of his more aberrant moods." - Penelope Gilliatt, Observer (UK)

"Tastefully done and exquisitely horrific, Eyes Without a Face delivers exactly the right amount of terror making it easy to see why it is such an enduring horror classic." - Stephanie Archer, Film Inquiry

"... at once lyrical, haunting, and deviant, an elegantly horrifying classic of sadism and shadowy grace." - Sean Axmaker, Stream on Demand