Eyes without a Face  — 4K 10/14/25

It was the impossible, intolerable taboo horror of its day … does it still shock as it once did, or are audiences now too jaded to appreciate its brilliance?  George Franju & Eugen Schüfftan ride the divide between clinical brutality and dreamy surrealism.  Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli and Edith Scob brought horror up to date with this one, initiating an international flood of medical horror cinema. Friend Steve Nielson once noted the film’s seminal effect, comparing it to the rock band Velvet Underground. Not very many people bought their records, but everyone who heard them started a band. Now on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection.
10/14/25