Eyes Without a Face | 100 Movies Bucket List

 

I hadn't heard of this film before but the premise was a really interesting one - it looked like true body horror and I was really looking forward to seeing how it would be done.

I really liked this film.

The film begins from a really intriguing place. It holds enough back from the audience that we're immediately interested in who these people are, and teases things out in a way that makes this interest grow and grow as it continues.

As I mentioned, I liked the premise, and the more I saw of it the more I liked. When it comes to horror, sci-fi based horror is something that's hit-or-miss for me, and I really liked it here. The film is a mix of genres and it works so well.

The film uses sound and dialogue really carefully - there are multiple scenes with no dialogue, there are scenes when the score feel too upbeat to accompany the scene it's used with, there are scenes where you can barely hear a sound, and all of this really changes the overall tone of the film. You're hanging onto these characters' every words, you can't take your eyes off the screen for a second - it's all really effective.

The actual horrors feel really subtle here - we are able to infer exactly what's going on, but in terms of what's shown on the screen there's not much there. We understand what's happening and how scary it is through the things we don't hear and see, which is masterful in terms of both the acting and filmmaking.

And when we do finally get to see these things, it just makes them more horrifying. But of course it helps that the actors were all amazing in these roles.

The effects/prosthetics and whatever else was used were great. There are some fantastic visuals here and everything felt somewhat authentic.

The pacing is great - it moves really quickly and everything that happened was completely relevant to the main plot.

Overall this film is great - definitely one to watch if you're a horror fan!