Eyes Without a Face (BLU-RAY)
At his secluded château 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.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Blood of the Beasts, Georges Franju’s 1949 documentary about the slaughterhouses of Paris
- Archival interviews with Franju on the horror genre, cinema, and the making of Blood of the Beasts
- Interview with actor Edith Scob
- Excerpts from Les grands-pères du crime, a 1985 documentary about screenwriters Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac
- Trailers
- Plus: Essays by novelist Patrick McGrath and film historian David Kalat
Cover by Aesthetic Apparatus