Faceless (1987)
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- Synopsis:
- Beautiful women are violently abducted and kept hostage in a covert clinic where Dr. Flamand (Helmut Berger) is conducting a series of grisly skin graft experiments that leave unwilling human guinea pigs mutilated and dead! When a powerful industrialist's (Telly Savalas) fashion model daughter (Caroline Munro) goes missing, Detective Sam Morgan (Chris Mitchum) uncovers clues that lead him to Dr. Flamand's secret hous of surgical horrors! What sick, sadistic obstacles of horror will Morgan face and who will survive the Doctor's slashing scalpel and his homicidal hulk henchman?
- Actors:
- Helmut Berger, Brigitte Lahaie, Telly Savalas, Christopher Mitchum, Stéphane Audran, Caroline Munro, Christiane Jean, Anton Diffring, Tilda Thamar, Howard Vernon, Florence Guérin, Gérard Zalcberg, Henri Poirier, Laure Sabardin, Amelie Chevalier
- Directors:
- Jesús Franco
- Writers:
- René Chateau, Pierre Ripert
- Genres:
- Classics, Horror, Thrillers
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Spoilers follow ... - Faceless review by NP
Director Jess Franco's collaboration with French video magnate René Chateau ensured 'Faceless' was a multi-million-pound venture and Franco’s biggest-ever budget. As a result, we're treated to an impressive cast of well-known. Caroline Munro, famous for her work with Hammer films, shares scenes with Brigitte Lahaie, known for her work with Jean Rollin - both have enjoyed prolific careers. To see them together is almost a surreal delight. Anton Diffring also stars, a does Telly Savalas and Franco favourite Howard Vernon; Christopher Mitchum, son of Robert, plays the hero., providing the weakest performance of the lot. Lots of swagger, but little else.
'Faceless' is pretty much a remake of Franco's 'The Awful Dr Orlof' (he liked revisiting ideas from earlier films), itself a reimagining of the 1960's classic 'Eyes Without A Face'.