Eyes Without a Face
Where can I watch Eyes Without a Face?
(Watch on Amazon Prime Video and HBO Max) Georges Franju’s 1960 French-language classic introduces us to a surgeon obsessed with repairing the accident-scarred face of his daughter, Christiane (Édith Scob)—to the point where he operates on kidnap victims, trying to use their skin to reconstruct her once-lovely visage. Eyes Without a Face has mad-scientist terrors and body horror to spare, but it’s also a deeply poignant tale about the dark places people will go when grief clouds their judgment. Even though she’s wearing an eerie white mask nearly the entire movie, Scob’s performance as the disfigured, deeply conflicted daughter is gut-wrenchingly effective.
