Description:
Secluded in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore his beloved daughter’s once-beautiful face, but at a horrifying price. Lauded as a true rarity of horror cinema, Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux sans visage) has influenced countless films in its wake and stunned audiences around the world with its shocking yet poetic imagery. The Criterion Collection is proud to present Georges Franju’s lyrical black-and-white classic in a long-awaited, high-definition DVD edition.
Special Features:
- New high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound and enhanced for widescreen televisions
- The Blood of Beasts (Le Sang des bętes), Georges Franju's graphic but beautiful poetic 1949 short documentary about Paris slaughterhouses
- Theatrical trailers
- Stills gallery of rare production photos and promotional material
- New essays by acclaimed novelist Patrick McGrath (Spider, Dr. Haggard's Disease) and writer/film historian David Kalat (Fear Without Frontiers: Horror Cinema Across the Globe, The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse: A Study of the Twelve Films and Five Novels)
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition
