Faceless (1988)
- Directed by
- Jesús Franco
- Genre
- horror film, slasher film, thriller film
- Country
- France, Spain
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Rated
- 18
- Rating
- 5.7 of 10 from 65 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A doctor and his assistant kidnap women to harvest their skin for his disfigured sister's face. A private detective searches for a missing fashion model.
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What happens
Faceless (French: Les prédateurs de la nuit) is a 1988 French horror film directed by Jesús Franco. The film stars Helmut Berger as Dr. Flamand, Brigitte Lahaie as Nathalie, Christopher Mitchum as Sam Morgan, and Stéphane Audran. In the film, Dr. Flamand and his assistant Nathalie lure unsuspecting victims to use their skin to perform plastic surgery on the doctor's disfigured sister. A New York businessman hires private detective Sam Morgan to find his missing fashion model daughter. The film was Franco's highest budget film since the 1960s. It was produced by René Château, a home video distributor in France who had released various genre films to the French video market. The narrative of the film was very similar to that of Franco's film The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962), a film he remade a few times during his career. It was released theatrically in Paris and received lukewarm reviews from French genre magazine Mad Movies and a negative one from Variety. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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