Eyes Without a Face (Criterion) 4K 09/25 Blu-ray (Rental)

At his secluded château 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. 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features Blood of the Beasts, Georges Franju’s 1949 documentary about the slaughterhouses of Paris Archival interviews with Franju on the horror genre, cinema, and the making of Blood of the Beasts Interview with actor Edith Scob Excerpts from Les grand-pères du crime, a 1985 documentary about screenwriters Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac Trailers PLUS: Essays by novelist Patrick McGrath and film historian David Kalat