After his daughter Christine (Edith Scob) is terribly disfigured in a car crash, the brilliant and obsessive Doctor Génessier (Pierre Brasseur) fakes her death, keeps her masked and confines her to their secluded chateau in the French countryside. Génessier believes he has the surgical skills necessary to replace her face – all he needs is a young woman with a face to spare. As the surgery proves more complicated than hypothesised, and more and more similar-looking women disappear from the streets of Paris, the police begin to close in and Christine’s internalised guilt reaches a fever pitch.

Visually poetic, surgically sinister and supremely influential, Georges Franju’s horror classic Eyes Without a Face now burns its hypnotic and terrifying images into memory like never before with its beautiful black and white photography richly restored in 4K. Sparking controversy on release for its grisliness, which reportedly caused tides of faintings among European audiences, the film was cut to pieces in its American release and scolded by bitter critics. Since then it has been reevaluated and championed as the beautiful and utterly chilling horror masterpiece that it is and we’re delighted to finally present it on the Golden Screen for those daring enough.