Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

elmoreeanjames After all the hype surrounding this film, I am kind of disappointed. This is not a bad film, but it feels like more effort could have been put into little details that would have elevated the film. The prosthetics, which should be the selling point of the film, were never entirely convincing except in the photograph sequence, which was a highlight. Spoilers: (They show the ruined face out of focus because you know they could not pull it off well. When the first girl's face is removed it just looked like they smeared blood on her actual face. When she's wearing the bandages, you can see skin where it showed they had removed it. Things like that really bothered me, and most would be easy to fix or film in a more convincing way.) The characters could have been fleshed out more, mainly the father and secretary. I liked how the girl was left to be more mysterious. I enjoyed the film, but it has major flaws.

jadavix "Eyes Without a Face" disappointed me. Its plot is exceedingly familiar. How many movies are there about evil doctors claiming victims for shadowy experiments? How many are there about doctors claiming victims for just this reason, rebuilding the face or body of their daughter, wife, sister, or whomever? I know, you're probably thinking that this idea may have been original in the '50s. Considering this, you start looking for signs that the movie at least told the story better than the 1001 rip offs that came after it.But if it did, that's hardly a point of pride, since this story was mostly used by b-filmmakers like Jess Franco.It's perhaps marginally better than most of its rip offs. The only really indelible image is the girl in the mask. The movie has no suspense or tension or anything like that.It is worth noting that the movie seems to have been recognized in its day mainly for its violence, which still seems shocking for a movie made in the '50s. This is worth noting because all the rip offs that came later totally out did it on that score, as you can imagine.Therefore, you may wonder what the point of this original version is?

Hitchcoc A doctor is responsible for the disfigurement of his daughter, due to his carelessness behind the wheel. He sets about trying to graft facial skin from young women to bring her back. The film is, on the one hand, a horror movie about his ghoulish behavior. He is obsessed with continuing these efforts. He has an accomplice, a woman, who has been promised the same surgery. But this is a much deeper film. It has to do with the horrors of disfigurement and the inability to accept that the person is still just that. There is an incredible scene with some dogs that are kept. They are loving and care not for how one looks. Beautiful filmmaking that rises above the simple genre.

GL84 After his daughter has been found, a surgeon's efforts to fix her mangled features lead to a series of kidnappings to experiment on providing her a new face and bring the police into the investigation in order to stop his delusion ideas.This one is a slightly overrated classic. Among the few enjoyable aspects here is the rather free and easy-going the themes are here which makes for a wholly decent enough time. The fact that this one has a really spectacular surgery scene is a big part of that in the film, being long, graphic, brutal and very detailed as it features the pre-surgery, the actual cutting into the skin and several aftermath shots of the bloody face. This is a really strong sequence, and that it's so long and features a lot more graphic moments, even goes as far as it does in the aftermath shots than most other surgery scenes at the time is something to be applauded. The few times where it's shown, the mask actually gets a little unsettling at times which is quite shocking with the angular, slick features and completely deaden face make it really disturbing while getting some chilling moments from the mask. As well,there's the pretty tense and chilling stalking scenes throughout here where they happen upon the victims in the middle of town, while the last good factor is the finale where she lets the dogs loose in the facility where they overrun the others left there which are the only good points of the film. This one here doesn't have very many flaws, but they are pretty big ones. A really big problem here is the fact that the film doesn't feel like a horror film at all as despite the surgery scene, this one provides nothing else for horror fans. Instead, this plays out as a traditional drama about a doctor's struggle to get his daughter to approve of the realities of the surgery while attempting to hide this factor from his everyday professional abilities rather than a horror film, as there's a huge series of scenes that basically aren't even played out to be chilling. That is a major problem, since it never really tries to be scary or chilling for most of the film, and that is especially damaging as if the film fails for the fact that it never tries to begin with as instead this play out like a completely different genre rather than what it really should. This is reflected in the next flaw, the film's terribly slow pacing as this one drags on forever it takes longer to get started, has a penchant for going off into plots that mean nothing and doesn't seem concerned with much going on rather than opting for conversations stating the obvious. Moreover, none of what's left to concentrate on seems important anyway due to the fact that there's such little urgency in anything that it really feels like no one cares so it falls onto the viewer as well.These two big flaws are incredibly damaging to the film and really make it seem overrated.Today's Rating/PG-13: Violence.