Watch
Eyes Without a Face

Eyes Without a Face

1960
Suspense/Thriller, Horror
1h 30m
Your probable score
Avg Percentile 66.97% from 1504 total ratings

Ratings & Reviews

(1504)
Compact view
Compact view
Rated 26 May 2016
100
97th
Eerie, understated, elegant, creepy, beautiful, and occasionally truly horrifying. A unique and sophisticated film for the more discerning horror fan.
Rated 27 Mar 2014
76
82nd
This is a movie about a girl whose face can't be seen. There's a name for that. It's called cleavage.
Rated 16 Jun 2020
92
98th
Absolutely beautifully shot in stark black and white, this overcomes its somewhat pulpy origins and manifests itself as something patient, controlled, creepy, unsettling and subtly horrifying. I really enjoyed this one, and its effect can be found in so many subsequent films.
Rated 16 Feb 2015
79
77th
An innocent young girl wakes up in a basement laboratory, tied to an operating table. Dogs can be heard barking in the distance. A woman wearing a facemask walks over to the table, grabbing a scalpel and looming over her... Yeah, this was pretty rad. Even though it's a bit pulp-y the film doesn't go down a sensationalist path which I really appreciated. We're introduced to the plot in a neat way, making us shift our sympathies around a few times, and it ends the only way it can.
Rated 16 Feb 2016
88
87th
EWaF is elegant, spare, & completely lacking any Grand Guignol sensibility. Christiane is an interesting character, less trapped than lost -- an idea captured in the labyrinthine architecture of the mansion she inhabits. With her opaque, inert face (incapable of registering moral crisis, trepidation, complicity), Christiane remains a haunting cipher up until the final eruption of violence -- desperate, demented hounds & graceful, peaceful doves -- that expresses a lot but clarifies little.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
82
85th
A little slow and sparse at first, but it eventually builds steam and becomes an impressively atmospheric and occasionally downright chilling horror film. There are also moments of lyrical beauty, especially the ending.
Rated 31 Aug 2012
43
5th
This is supposed to be a horror movie? I'm baffled. This is one of those times where universal acclaim is universally wrong. I was so friggin' bored I actually considered ripping my own face off.
Rated 18 Jan 2008
85
94th
What do you know. Horror meets arthouse in Franju's beautifully shot film. A gem.
Rated 12 Nov 2014
87
94th
Haunting, surreal, poetic, terrifying, touching, unpretentious, entertaining, subversive, accessible. A true classic of horror cinema. I don't really care about the obvious pacing flaws since the gorgeous and dreamlike imagery & atmosphere left me completely mesmerised.
Rated 28 Oct 2011
33
29th
Essentially well-crafted but strangely old-fashioned for a French film from 1960, with an almost classic Hollywood feel. It derives the entirety of whatever it has going for it from the haunting image of Edith Scob in her white mask, otherwise it is almost completely ordinary.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
88
91st
Pointlessly slow at times, but otherwise excellent and creepy.
Rated 09 Sep 2008
3
61st
Aesthetically pleasing, with some excellent shots, but otherwise a bit of a bore. I mean, the ending (girl walking through the forest surrounded by doves) is haunting and beautiful, but that doesn't really make up for the fact that the ending is just some girl walking through the forest with a bunch of fucking doves. Something better should have happened there.
Rated 14 Aug 2009
72
59th
An interesting concept and genuinely creepy at times, but not quite enough to justify the glacial pacing. Christiane floating about like a spectre and loosing frozen utterances proves skin-crawlingly effective, the problem is her appearances are limited. The other performances are rather underwhelming, the doctor in particular. There are some philosophical and emotional issues that are left unmined, contributing to the general lack of depth in the story. The ending is quite beautiful, though.
Rated 02 Feb 2009
80
67th
The surgery scene was one of the only scenes ever that made me feel really really disgusted. It's a decent enough movie. The choice to not have that much music in it adds a bit of eeriness to it.
Rated 09 May 2011
80
81st
Nearly flawless thriller. What you have here is a great script with a well written intrugue that works perfectly. There is one flaw, [SPOILER!!!ALERT!!!ACHTUNG] even though we know, that the father is doing it for his daughter (he loves her but also feels responsible for her current situation) [ULTRA!!!SPOILER!!!ALERT!!!ACHTUNG], the deaths of all those young girls (who could easily be his daughters friends) come rather to easy for him. This is ALMOST a masterpiece.
Rated 18 Jun 2018
65
17th
While it's admirable to want to take a B-movie concept (mad scientist) & turn it into something with more weight, intentions can only get you so far when you equate slowness w/ mood/suspense. The only feelings evoked by watching characters slowly make their way up and down staircases or from point A to point D are boredom and irritation.The effort also doesn't show up in the script w/ idiotic cops forcing a civilian to go undercover on the flimsiest of suspicions & then assuming she's ok.
Rated 07 Oct 2019
70
48th
For me this isn't really that scary It's more disturbing because of how far the father is willing to go to make his daughter normal
Rated 29 May 2020
4
74th
With a mask or without, hideously scarred or newly restored, even merely the back of her head; Christiane cuts one of the most haunting figures in the history of horror. Featureless, her lost identity as much a prison as the rooms of the home through which she drifts. This film is deeply, darkly morbid, and for all its exploitation of surgical phobias and disfigurement, it seems a precursor to the body horror films that would become popular a couple decades later.
Rated 13 Apr 2008
81
64th
A very creepy and well made movie. The film is a bit drawn out though and while there are some really tense scenes the tension doesn't really carry through the whole movie.
Rated 30 Mar 2007
100
95th
Absolute classic. Like a really scary fairy tale
Rated 23 Mar 2009
78
89th
Good Movie
Rated 12 Feb 2014
4
70th
Even at 90 minutes, this feels strangely padded with inconsequential material, but it delivers on every other front: atmospheric, creepy, beautiful. Not a fan of the jaunty music, but ah well. You can tell what a fan Almodovar must be of this one, given how much of it he borrows for The Skin I Live In.
Rated 11 Sep 2015
80
75th
While thematically flimsy, Franju's unique combination of horror and pulpy crime fiction results in one of the most memorable films of the decade, becoming a landmark not just for horror cinema's many incarnations (from body horror to 'torture porn') but also for pushing the limits of what could be shown on screen: the gore remains difficult to endure at times, and I cannot imagine how it would have been for audiences over 50 years ago. Scob's ephemeral presence results in striking imagery.
Rated 29 Apr 2018
60
51st
Well shot but incredibly slow. I'd barely be able to call this a horror film more like a thrill than anything else. The music was a strange choice and both works well during certain parts but also took me out of the movie at other times.
Rated 24 Oct 2019
80
57th
A stylistic and repulsive crime meets horror, that is easy to appreciate for its age in the French wave. It is eerie thematically and hints at elements challenging God-like dynamics. I wouldn't mind recommending this for a creepy night horror.
Rated 17 Dec 2014
60
32nd
Good music, photography, and some unforgettable images give the pulpy subject matter some gothic class. But it is definitely less than the sum of its parts. Really it just makes one wonder how much alleged schlock of the era is one good restoration away from critical respect.
Rated 08 Feb 2017
30
11th
«Demodé» Horror, see boring.
Rated 06 Oct 2013
60
16th
Meanders a bit, but the photography is very good.
Rated 31 Oct 2013
90
81st
A creepy film that really gets under your skin with an unnerving plot filled with relatable characters doing detestable things. The plot is a little too predictable, but the overall plot still shocks because of the fascinating narrative and hypnotic visuals.
Rated 26 May 2009
100
98th
Franju's macabre masterpiece, originally released in the U.S. with English dubbing, an elegant, graceful, stately, almost ceremonial variation on the mad-scientist theme. The naiveté of the vision -- the replacement face is peeled off its owner in one piece and fitted onto the recipient like a rubber mask -- only puts it in closer touch with the worlds of dreams and fairy tales. Unsurpassed black-and-white photography by the eminent Eugen Schüfftan
Rated 02 Jul 2013
80
75th
The face of the daughter along with the perfect music went a long way to paper over any cracks
Rated 26 Jul 2009
60
54th
I wanted to like this much, much more than I did. The first scene in the car (before you know what's going on) is bloodcurdlingly eerie, and several later bits and pieces are almost spooky too. All of it is gorgeously shot. I just wish the script was better. It should have been a bit more anatomically and medically realistic (even in 1959), and there are just too many plot implausibilities to let slide. Someone obviously didn't do their job, all I know is it wasn't the cinematographer.
Rated 03 Sep 2015
90
95th
Its graphic gore is unbelievable. It opens with Louise throwing a young lady body in the river. When you think the surgery scenes will not be frontally shown, it actually follows an entire operation -- a face being removed, the blood dripping to the neck. It's so violently objective that it couldn't end differently: the girl stabs Louise on her neck -- where she hides the scars of a successful surgery -- and sees her father dead, after his dogs ate his face. It just couldn't be more horrific.
Rated 02 Nov 2009
75
69th
It's beautifully shot, but isn't consistently scary or even creepy and the storyline lacks some depth. The operation scene is chilling, however, and the ending is beautiful.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
80
43rd
Decidely creepy (The surgery scene, though obviously fake, is still difficult to sit through) but a bit slow at times, and the musical score, while good, isn't too appropriate for a movie like this. It sounds like a carnival.
Rated 20 Aug 2019
65
35th
Pretty decent, but not in the least bit scary. Not sure why the film is so celebrated, but it was good-looking.
Rated 13 Feb 2016
7
57th
Other than the grating music score, this was a pretty neat horror film. At times chilling and macabre, Franju delivers an engaging and suspenseful narrative amid a dark atmosphere rich in suggestive imagery. Sure, it might not pack a lasting punch, but the visual content is really what matters here.
Rated 08 Jul 2016
85
79th
With its macabre storyline, the film leads us to question unbridled scientific progress and the human costs of such single-minded pursuits. Further, the whole thing plays subtly off vaguely religious notions, with the professors desire for regenerative tissue akin to a Christian desire for resurrection. Franju's images have a hypnotic quality to them, never more so than when the professor's daughter floats through the house in her beautifully disturbing mask.
Rated 22 Mar 2011
86
82nd
Slow in parts, but overall a well-crafted, atmospheric horror film. What really stood out to me was the excellent use of sound, music, and silence to create a spooky vibe. One could just sit and LISTEN to this movie and feel creeped out.
Rated 31 Oct 2017
69
38th
The story was poetic and became even more so during the third act. There were some surprisingly intense scenes especially for 1960. I was very excited to see this movie, but I did not connect with it as much as I was hoping to.
Rated 18 Dec 2016
71
46th
The pacing is devastating slow, but it does have some creepy moments however. Yet, sometimes it just feels like the movie is floating around, padded with moments that really could have been cut - it barely even has a climax. Still has some effective moments that unsettled me.
Rated 08 May 2011
80
84th
Really good-looking, creepy horror film. Alida Valli is very good, plus Christiane in her mask is a lasting image and the end is great - the film is pretty close to flawless to be honest - yet still my mind wandered a few times. Also the police are laughable here, surely for any decade to use SPOILER someone as a decoy like that, then not keep an eye on her and just shrug it off when she goes missing is, well, not going to happen.
Rated 18 Dec 2009
93
91st
One of the scariest, most atmospheric horror movies ever made.
Rated 03 Nov 2010
88
87th
Outstanding early foray into the body horror genre. 1960 was the year horror grew up, and it's a testament to Franju's directing chops that this excuisitely twisted chiller can be mentioned in the same sentence as Psycho and Peeping Tom.
Rated 28 Jul 2009
93
84th
The ending is infuriating. Other than that, almost perfect.
Rated 22 Mar 2009
88
85th
Franju's blend of poetry and terror is ably abetted by Maurice Jarre's bittersweet score, and the film sports one of the most memorable fade-outs in genre history.
Rated 11 Jan 2009
7
70th
The surgery scene bought it for me, I mean it's fake and all but it made me flinch so much I had to turn away from the screen.
Rated 01 May 2019
80
83rd
Those freaking doves, man.
Rated 15 Dec 2019
60
26th
It's an excellent story that is sadly too slow paced and lacking in punch. The premise is great, but I believe this movie suffers from its time.
Rated 29 Aug 2020
88
80th
I never thought something from 1960 would almost make me look away. Those surgery scenes must have been unbearable for the original audience's virgin eyes
Rated 12 Sep 2020
70
58th
They should have just given her Nic Cage's face Boom, problem solved
Rated 28 Sep 2020
90
90th
Way ahead of its time, while also playing like a classy French version of The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Rated 21 Jul 2015
71
61st
it's a very pretty movie for a horror film. lots of interesting shots, esp scenes with edith scob moving about in her mask. the story is fairly straightforward and does unfortunately have its doldrums otherwise i might have rated this higher. the face-removing scene is so cold and clinical that even as a jaded gorehound something about it made my skin crawl and that was amazing.
Rated 01 Mar 2008
82
71st
# 352
Rated 08 Jul 2014
91
89th
Parte mais fraca da santíssima trindade do horror daquele ano (junto com Psycho e Peeping Tom), o que não quer dizer que não seja um filme excelente.
Rated 19 Mar 2009
86
80th
Franju, one of the underrated heroes of French cinema, creates an austerely beautiful horror film. Imaginative cinematography by Eugen Shuftan with music by Maurice Jarre.
Rated 05 Apr 2017
55
44th
Visually disturbing atmosphere even sometimes disgusting as it's supposed to be. So, clearly the horror part is there with nearly brilliant black-white cinematography. However, characters are created in a very poor manner. Their motivations are explained over and over again by their dialogues. I mean, that's very lame choice. As a result, suspense becomes missing and it's a big miss.
Rated 29 Mar 2018
95
96th
A perfect depiction of an innocent face under the mask with its poetic and eerie nature.
Rated 28 Oct 2013
70
68th
Lovely, creepy, probably too languid.
Rated 16 Oct 2015
61
33rd
I've gotta dock this movie some points, because I was expecting just one great effect shot of somebody who had... well, eyes without a face. Even if it was a still of a dummy and not an actual makeup effect, that would have been fine with me. But you never really get that one thing.
Rated 01 Mar 2016
9
42nd
Star Rating: ★★★
Rated 20 Oct 2008
4
55th
Both tediously paced & eerily beautiful. Unfortunately, on a re-watch the former trait took over. I also hate how some of the music was employed, and the acting of the doctor seemed worse.
Rated 10 Nov 2014
5
70th
a father wants to know if his groundbreaking but murderous face transplants will work. his daughter, who is on trial for the treatment, is very upset without her beauty. the police investigate the disappearance of the girls the father kidnapped. all put together, this is more mystery than psychology, and is slightly less interesting as a result. nevertheless, it is still engaging and beautiful to look at, and the music is awesome.
Rated 19 Mar 2016
83
67th
Our Daily Free Stream: Georges Franju - Eyes without A Face (engl. subt.). Am meisten hat mich berührt, dass die Verbrechen des Vaters und nicht ihr eigenes Schicksal, das Herz seiner Tochter brachen... die ganze Rezension sowie die für uns besten französischen Filme der 60er gibts Webpage unserer Videothek cinegeek.de
Rated 24 Jun 2011
82
89th
yüz nakli (face of) tanimadigin insanlara güvenme (hostel) psikopat doktor (frankstein) (trafik kazasinda yüzü parcalanan kizi icin genc kizlari avlayip yüz nakli yapan doktor ve asistaninin hikayesi anlatilir. asistan genc kizlara arkadasca yaklasip tuzagina düsürmektedir. finalde köpek saldirisi var (inferno) zamanina göre iyi buldum, yalniz biraz agir ve siyah beyaz
Rated 30 Nov 2011
82
64th
#352
Rated 19 Dec 2008
82
64th
354
Rated 23 Aug 2013
76
49th
Eyes Without a Face is a great horror film, but it is not the easiest to sit through. There are parts that can be really rough for the viewer. But it's worth the watch.
Rated 06 May 2009
82
68th
Good music
Rated 09 Dec 2013
82
68th
Some sublime images. Probably the inspiration for Michael Myer's mask in John Carpenter's Halloween.
Rated 18 Oct 2010
30
78th
"It's not a masterpiece but it certainly isn't forgettable." - Chris Barsanti
Rated 22 Sep 2014
82
45th
Very unsettling imagery.
Rated 10 Jul 2017
85
87th
Enchanting! Creepy as fuck!
Rated 09 Dec 2009
80
86th
Nice and offbeat mad scientist movie with a pretty macabre tone.
Rated 18 Apr 2013
72
50th
Has a real '30s vibe that I can't quite put my finger on. . .might be the poor pacing. Otherwise, quite serviceable with some truly chilling, evocative images. That main theme is fucking awful, though.
Rated 03 Mar 2017
80
85th
Classic, creepy, French horror.
Rated 03 Apr 2013
78
58th
If you can't handle watching plastic surgeries well, you're gonna LOVE this film.
Rated 17 May 2022
83
87th
The underlying tension and the visual intrigue of Christine’s facelessness brings much to the table. Not as intense as it could have been all the way, but the ending makes up for some of that.
Rated 13 Sep 2021
84
99th
Absolute masterpiece.
Rated 13 Sep 2021
89
97th
Unreasonably good, that last scene was vibes.
Rated 21 Nov 2013
74
93rd
Gorgeous. Would be a great double feature with "Carnival of Souls" [1962].
Rated 05 Feb 2015
60
62nd
Not bad.
Rated 01 Nov 2011
62
42nd
Poetic, atmospheric, influential and extremely ahead of its time, "Eyes Without a Face" suffers from poor pacing and narrative but makes up for it with astounding effects (not just for its time but even by todays standards) and great performances.
Rated 13 Jan 2010
83
66th
348
Rated 04 Mar 2012
85
77th
03 Mart 2012 & filmin cok iyi cekilip, oynandigini dusunuyorum. cok basarili bir denge uzerinde ilerleyen ve garip bir sekilde, somut bir sebep olmaksizin atmosferi ile germeyi basaran bir is. filmin bu basarili atmosfer kurma cabasini ve icinde olusturdugu ritmik dengeyi cok sevdim. ama bence biraz daha uzun ve katmanli olabilirdi.
Rated 22 Jun 2008
80
88th
Creepy as hell.
Rated 10 Apr 2009
25
43rd
Unpleasant horror film which its director seems to have made as a joke; the years have made it a cult.
Rated 03 Aug 2011
87
72nd
A groundbreaking horror film from 1960 that set the stage for both artistic horror films as well as blood and gore.
Rated 09 Oct 2007
79
61st
If it wasn't for the incredibly disappointing ending this would have been a masterpiece. The end comes out of nowhere without any hint or warning. It's infuriating, because it was as if they ran out of money and had to suddenly end the movie.
Rated 03 Sep 2014
75
81st
This was a really good film. I loved how messed up the story was, especially for a fairly early movie. It wasn't scary or anything, but it definitely had some creepy scenes. It was clearly very influential in the cinematic world, reminding me very of The Skin I Live In (2011), among others. The cinematography is gorgeous, the imagery is very striking, and the ending is quite beautiful.
Rated 31 Oct 2017
90
80th
Viewed October 30, 2017.
Rated 25 Dec 2010
88
87th
88.000
Rated 06 Nov 2015
80
84th
I am pretty happy I got to see this one within the same month as Skin I Live In. That would make an interesting double feature. I went in not knowing anything about it but I quite enjoyed it. The special effects really are pretty great, and the girl is so interesting to watch. She seems to float around the mansion like a ghost.
Rated 02 May 2018
50
37th
This movie must've been incredible raw and bold in its time, and I am sure we own a lot of modern terror and thriller to its influence, but watching it now it loses its impact and you are left with some good design and a weak story.
Rated 25 Oct 2018
65
40th
Had the pacing not been so painfully slow, I probably would have rated this higher. Pierre Brasseur is just a bit too stiff in his portrayal, and it doesn't help the screenplay a bit. I think with a different actor, one less pondering in his performance, and this would be a great film. Another thing that was annoying was the music that played every time Alida Valli was hunting for subjects. It seems too much a coincidence, that it wasn't lifted as a motif, from The Third Man.
Rated 04 Nov 2018
77
69th
Ending in a weird way felt like an influence on TCSM's ending. Both ending on striking imagery
Rated 11 Nov 2018
50
10th
Doctor Génessier: "The future, madame, is something we should have started on long ago."
Rated 15 Mar 2019
90
77th
90.00
Rated 12 Oct 2020
75
69th
The story itself is a bit thin and there's some bits I wish were expanded on (the religious allegory as seen in the final shots, the pulpy noir crime investigation side, etc), but still lots to appreciate here. Some really great extended wordless passages.
Rated 04 Oct 2019
7
62nd
Unsettling and ghostly (without having any ghosts, either).

Collections

(79)
Compact view
Showing 1 - 24 of 79 results

Similar Titles

Loading ...

Statistics

Loading ...