The Blood Rose (1970)

Original title

La Rose écorchée

Directed by

Claude Mulot

Genre

horror film, sexploitation film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

R

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 24 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A portrait artist's wife is disfigured in an accident. He pressures a surgeon to perform a face transplant to restore her beauty.

grotesquemacabreluridsuspensefulmelodramaticvisceraldatedexploitative

What happens

The Blood Rose (French: La Rose écorchée, lit. 'The Flayed Rose') is a 1970 French horror film directed and co-written by Claude Mulot. The film involves a portraitist named Frederick Lansac (Philippe Lemaire) wanting to restore his wife Anne's (Anny Duperey) face to its former beauty after it was disfigured in an accident. Lansac tries to force a surgeon named Rohmer (Howard Vernon) to perform a transplant on her. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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