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Title: Faceless (2004)
Format: DVD
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Starring: Helmut Berger, Brigitte Lahaie, Telly Savalas, Christopher Mitchum, and Stéphane Audran
Director: Jesus Franco
Rating: Unrated
Runtime: 99 minutes
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Review of Faceless

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• Posted on 2009-03-31
  Very good eurotrash horror film.
  
  I bought the Euro Trash: Triple Feature last year and that's how I saw this bizarre but great French horror flick. It has a pretty nice 80's atmosphere but don't expect any scares, however what this film has is tons of gore. If your familiar with Jess Franco's work then you would know that he specializes in exploitation, sleaze and low budget horror. Director Jess Franco made a lot of duds during his career, but in his filmography there are several hidden gems and Faceless is definitely one of them!. True to Franco's style, the film is trashy and sleazy throughout but it's the eighties atmosphere that sets this film apart from the majority of Franco's films, as Faceless takes in trashy eighties pop and themes of vanity, which ensure that the film is always obviously a product of the eighties. The film begins with the disappearance of a model named Barbara Hallen. Her father hires a private detective to find her, and while on her trail in Paris; the detective eventually makes his way to a private clinic where strange experiments have been going on. The not so good doctor who has a sister with a permanently disfigured and burnt face from a crazy woman who threw acid on it in a previous scene, decides to fix his sister's face and he's using skin from young women to do it!.
  
  The film's biggest plus point is the scenes of gore! there are things such as a needle in the eye, a drill through the skull, a chainsaw decapitation and numerous surgery sequences which are well done, and I'm sure that alot of gore hounds will love it. The cast is also a standout element of the film, as Franco recasts Howard Vernon in the role of Dr Orloff, and we've also got performances from the likes of Telly Savalas, Anton Diffring and Jean Rollin's beautiful frequent collaborator Brigitte Lahaie. The story isn't massively strong, but it's not bad either as Franco strings a few different threads together and that, along with the gore and nudity going on throughout, tends to ensure that the film is always interesting. The film itself is also good for quite a few laughs; Chris Mitchum's (he played the lead detective) encounter with the muscled bodyguard named "Doodoo". The inexplicable presence of a drag queen in Helmut Berger's clinic, a joke Franco spontaneously made up on the set, even Helmut Berger looked a little disturbed after entering the room (Franco probably didn't tell him who or what was in the room). An electric doll (the stand-in for a body) that runs wild due to some electric failure, with its teeth clappering up and down like wild. Why fix it? Just keep it in the movie. No one will notice.... The music that Franco has chosen is pretty awful but then again it doesn't distract the viewer from this wonderfully cheesy french horror flick, I highly recommend this to fans of European horror, check it out.
  
  
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• Posted on 2008-07-21
  A TRUE UNDERATED FILM
  
  THIS IS AN OFTEN OVERLOOKED LITTLE CLASSIC. THAT WONDERFUL STYLE OF DEATHS WITH IMAGES OF GORE AND WONDERFUL MAKEUP. THE CLASSIC STYLE MAKEUP THAT STICKS WITH YOU. A WOMAN IS BURNED IN THE FACE AND SHE AND HER BROTHER AND HIS WIFE INGRID WILL DO ANYTHING TO BRING BACK HER BEAUTY.
  
  THIS FILM HAS EVERYTHING A HORROR FAN COULD WANT. GORE, MURDER, BLOOD, SEX, TONS OF NUDITY AND A TWISTED LITTLE PLOT. THE FILM ITSELF DOES HAVE HOLES IN THE STORY BUT IT'S A PICTURE ABOUT EXPERIMENTS, MURDER, NEEDLES BEING STUCK IN THE EYE. HEADS BEING SAWED OFF, SKIN BEING PEALED FROM THE FACES, RAPE, FORE PLAY, AND JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING.
  
  LONG BEFORE HANNIBAL LECTER EVER TORE THE FACE OFF OF AN INNOCENT GUARD THERE WAS DR. KARL HEINZ MOSER A NAZI DOCTOR THAT LOVED TO TOUCH AND REPLACE BEAUTY AT ALL COST.
  
  WOMAN THAT ARE BEAUTIFUL ARE KIDNAPPED CLOTHES TAKEN FROM THEM AND HELD NAKED, HOSTAGE TO THE DOCTORS THAT WANT TO PLAY WITH THERE LIFE'S. FROM SEX TO MURDER, TO A BRUTE IGOR LIKE SLAVE THIS MOVIE PUSHES THE BEAUTY OF SKIN, IT PUSHES THE CLASSIC FEEL OF RETRO HORROR CINEMA THAT I MISS SO MUCH.
  
  IF YOU LIKE THAT CLASSIC HORROR CINEMA OF THE 70'S THEN THIS MOVIE WORKS, IT'S A PURE FUN RIDE INTO GORE AND MAKEUP BEFORE CGI KILLED EVERYTHING.
  
  
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• Posted on 2008-01-20
  The eyeball scene, that's all I have to say.
  
  This is a pretty wierd French horror flick from Jess Franco, arguably his only good movie. I was going to take off 1 star for the putrid music but the eyeball scene.......dude........the eyeball scene......that was sweet......
  
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• Posted on 2007-02-11
  Pointless
  
  I can't see why people gat so worked up about Jess Franco...this shallow remake of "les yeaux sans visage" is chock full of 80's grue and sharp suits with padded shoulders. It drags in lots of places, and poor old Telly obviously fimed his bits in a day somewhere else. Having said that Chris Mitchum is great, astonishingly like his father but with a career running at only 5% that of Dad, he is likeable, full of charm and holds this together.
  Brigitte (phwoar!!)Lahaie is up to her usual standard and at least she keeps her clothes on in this one!.
  Great viewing with a meat feast pizza.
  
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• Posted on 2005-07-20
  JUST FOR HORROR FANS
  
  If you're a real horror fan and especially a one of Jess Franco - this movie is for you. It's rather rare and little-known, has decent special make up effects, pretty poor acting and Caroline Munro as one of the stars. If all this is what you collection is missing - this movie is for you. So the good thing about this flick - you can say to someone: "You know, I've got Jess Franco's Faceless". The bad thing you probably won't want to watch it for the second time. Sometimes it seems the director falls into too obsessive and unnecessary erotomania and the movie gets too exploitative. Acting is bad and characters sometimes look silly. But it may be parts of this film's charm. Go ahead if you like B or C horror of 80-s.
  
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