Eyes without a Face Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

Don't believe the hype

Maybe the story is interesting and some moments are quite good, but let's not get carried away here. This film moves at a glacial pace, and as it's less than 90 mins that means very little happens. Endless shots of nothing occuring makes it feel like a quota quickie. Cinematography is all over the place, cutaways don't match and lots of shots seem underexposed then rescued in grading, although that couldn't cure the continuity errors. Almost everybody is virtually monosyllabic. The ending made me laugh it was so poorly acted and even the animals couldn't be coaxed into doing was was required of them. We are talking a B movie run at half speed here, if this was in English it would rightfully be panned.

Dated Badly

I can see how this film would have shocked in 1960, but like most horror films, it has dated very badly. In particular the long sequences of walking up stairs and parking the car (which in the extras is built up into some clever bit of filmmaking) far from building up tension, draw all tension out of the film. There are some odd good moments but this is a film being hyped up by people who haven't watched it in years.