Eyes Without A Face (#260) (Criterion Collection)[USA]

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Release Date: October 15

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At his secluded chateau in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor (Pierre Brasseur) attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of his daughter’s disfigured countenance—at a horrifying price. Eyes Without a Face, directed by the supremely talented Georges Franju, is rare in horror cinema for its odd mixture of the ghastly and the lyrical, and it has been a major influence on the genre in the decades since its release. There are images here—of terror, of gore, of inexplicable beauty—that once seen are never forgotten.

1. New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
2. Blood of the Beasts, Georges Franju’s 1949 documentary about the slaughterhouses of Paris (new high-definition digital restoration on the Blu-ray edition)
3. Archival interviews with Franju on horror, cinema, and the making of Blood of the Beasts
4. New interview with actor Edith Scob (Blu-ray only)
5. Excerpt from Les Grands-pères du crime, a 1985 documentary about Eyes Without a Face writers Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac
6. Trailers
7. Stills gallery of rare production photos and promotional material (DVD only)
8. Plus: A booklet featuring essays by novelist Patrick McGrath and film historian David Kalat