Episode 2 of Season 2! Host, Gratton Conwill and special guest, Matt Fields discuss Eyes Without a Face (1960).
Day 2
Eyes Without a Face 1h 30m
Eyes Without a Face is a French horror film directed by Georges Franju and released on March 2nd 1960. The film was written by a total of five people including director Franju. An additional writing credit is given to Jean Redon, who wrote the book upon which the movie was based. An edited and dubbed version was released in North America on the 24th of October 1962 as The Horror Chamber of Doctor Faustus.
Original reception in Europe was mild to poor with many reviews dismissing it as an empty genre film since the director was an established and respected documentary filmmaker. It was considered a little shocking for the time with people in audiences allegedly leaving or fainting during some scenes. Over the years the reception changed into mostly a mostly positive one. An unedited version was finally released theatrically in North America on Halloween of 2003.
Before making Eyes Without a Face, Director Georges Franju co-founded the Cinématheque Française organization in 1936. Cinématheque Française is a nonprofit film archive with an extensive collection of films and film artifacts considered one of the largest in the world.
Eyes Without a Face is credited as the inspiration for the Billy idol song: Eyes without a face.
Eyes Without a Face has:
3.9 out of 5 on Letterboxd
7.7 out of 10 on IMDb
98% on rotten tomatoes
89% on google
Roger Ebert gave it a 3.5 out of 4
90% on metacritic
8.36 Average CTS score
From the creators of Giant Monster BS: Gratton Conwill and Matt Fields bring you Only In Amityville season 2: Escape from Amityville!
Escape from Amityville is a limited series podcast event happening exclusively during October of 2021! Starting October 1st, we will review one movie every other day. Each movie will be a lesser known or appreciated, but culturally significant, horror movie made within the past 100 years. None of these movies have anything to do with the original tale of America's most haunted house, but in the spirit of the Amityville story, we promise to review chilling and horrifying movies featuring demons, monsters, and various ghouls! 15 episodes in total! The series finale takes place on Halloween night with a special mystery review. Fans of Giant Monster BS and/or Horror films will be right at home with this podcast. Vulgar, brutally honest, scary as hell, oh yeah... it's Escape from Amityville time Baby!
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