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

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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