Georges Franju directs Édith Scob, Pierre Brasseur and Alida Valli in this French shocker where a surgeon kidnaps Parisian beauties to steal their faces for his disfigured daughter.

Dream-like. Nightmare-esque. Full of extreme weirdness that goes just as hard as contemporaries Psycho and Peeping Tom. The never-ending fatal car rides. The iconic mask. The cellar full of caged dogs. Gothic and modern. The ending is full of the innocence of a fairytale. Everything else is just shock or boredom. Waiting for a face that isn’t your own but you hope will take.

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Perfect Double Bill: Judex (1963)

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