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The most terrifying film I've ever seen, bar none. Those familiar with the film will know that it is not just the shocking moments of surgical gore and mutilation that provides terror, but the long, arduous and uneasy wait for that mask to be lifted from 'the face' of that girl, painfully frail beneath her trench coat. But perhaps the most uncomfortable things of all are each moral dilemma that the characters face and the consequences that occur as a result of each nasty decision. Set to Maurice Jarre's creepy Carinval music, Pierre Brasseur's surgeon and his assistant, Alida Valli, lure pretty young woman to their home in the hopes of heterografting an entire face to restore his daughter's disfigured one. Whilst the surgical scenes are horrifying, it's the sadness in the eyes behind the daughter's mask that haunt. A superb performance from Brasseur and excellent cinematography add to a truly unforgettable film that is certainly not for the faint-hearted. In short, it scared the hell out of me.
5/5
