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5.8/10   387 votes
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Director:
Jesus Franco
Writer:
René Chateau (writer)
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Release Date:
22 June 1988 (France) more
Genre:
Horror | Thriller more
Tagline:
Come Face To Face With Evil more
Plot:
A model named Barbara Hallen has disappeared and her father gets private detective Sam Morgan to go to Paris to find his daughter... more | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
The Sleazy World of Jess Franco
 (From SoundOnSight. 7 July 2009, 10:13 PM, PDT)

Jess Franco's Bloody Moon
 (From Fangoria. 21 December 2008, 12:43 AM, PST)

User Comments:
Blimey! A decent Jess Franco film! more

Cast

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Helmut Berger ... Dr. Frank Flamand
Brigitte Lahaie ... Nathalie

Telly Savalas ... Terry Hallen

Christopher Mitchum ... Sam Morgan (as Chris Mitchum)
Stéphane Audran ... Mme Sherman / Mrs. Sherman
Caroline Munro ... Barbara Hallen
Christiane Jean ... Ingrid Flamand
Anton Diffring ... Dr. Karl Heinz Moser
Tilda Thamar ... Mme François / Mrs. Francois
Howard Vernon ... Dr. Orloff
Florence Guérin ... Herself / Florence Guérin
Gérard Zalcberg ... Gordon
Henri Poirier ... Commissaire Legris / Insp. Legros
Laure Sabardin ... La réceptionniste / The receptionist
Amelie Chevalier ... Mélissa (as Amélie Chevalier)
Marcel Philippot ... Maxence
Tony Awak ... Doudou
Mony Dalmès ... La Baronne / Baroness
Doris Thomas ... La cantatrice / The singer
Daniel Beretta ... L'homme du bois de Boulogne
Antonina Laurent ... Karen
Isabelle Cnokaert ... Gina
Nicky Gorska ... La femme au vitriol / Woman parking
Jean Tolzac ... Le concierge de l'hôtel / Desk clerk
Jacques Couderc ... L'employé à la morgue / Man in the morgue
Pascale Vital ... La barmaid / The barmaid

Lina Romay ... Mme Orloff / Mrs. Orloff
Alain Barbier ... Rachid
Thierry Fouques ... Le secrétaire / Secretary (as Thierry Foulques)
Daniel Grimm ... Wallace
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Directed by
Jesus Franco 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
René Chateau  writer (as Fred Castle)
Dominique Eudes  writer (uncredited)
Jesus Franco  writer (uncredited)
Michel Lebrun  writer (uncredited)
Jean Mazarin  writer (uncredited)
Pierre Ripert  writer (uncredited)

Produced by
René Chateau .... producer
 
Original Music by
Romano Musumarra 
 
Cinematography by
Jean-Jacques Bouhon 
Maurice Fellous 
 
Film Editing by
Christine Pansu 
 
Production Design by
Bernard Ciberot 
 
Set Decoration by
Yan Arlaud 
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Élisabeth Parnière .... first assistant director
Géraldine Petrovic .... second assistant director
Lina Romay .... second unit director (uncredited)
 
Sound Department
Jean-Louis Ducarme .... sound
Fred Mays .... post-synchronization
 
Special Effects by
Jacques Gastineau .... special effects
 
Camera and Electrical Department
François Hernandez .... assistant camera
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Les prédateurs de la nuit (France)
Los depredadores de la noche (Spain)
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Runtime:
98 min | Spain:90 min
Country:
Spain | France
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Fujicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Canada:R (Nova Scotia) (edited for re-rating) | New Zealand:R18 | Australia:R | Canada:(Banned) (Nova Scotia) (original rating) | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | Canada:R (Ontario) | France:-12
Filming Locations:
Paris, France
Company:
ATC 3000 more

Fun Stuff

Movie Connections:
Features Le déclic (1985) more
Soundtrack:
Mais Que Bonita more

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5 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
Blimey! A decent Jess Franco film!, 9 July 2006
8/10
Author: ba.harrison from Hampshire, England

I never thought I would see the day when I would award a high rating to a Jess Franco movie, but Faceless proved to be far better than any of the director's other output that it has been my misfortune to see.

Helmut Berger plays Dr. Frank Flamand, a renowned plastic surgeon desperately searching for a way to restore his sister's beauty after she is terribly scarred in an acid attack. Since this is a Franco flick, this means removing the faces of unwilling donors, who have been abducted by Frank's sexy assistant Nathalie, and transplanting them onto his disfigured sister.

When top model Barbara Hallen (Caroline Munro) is selected by the nutty physician as a possible donor, and snatched mid-assignment, her father (Telly Savalas) hires a tough private eye to find her.

Franco delivers a quality piece of sleaze, laden with nudity, lesbianism, rape, torture, gratuitous gore and bizarre characters (which include an extremely camp photographer, the doctor's hulking sidekick and a Nazi surgeon). Working with a higher budget than usual and a quality cast, the director avoids his usual pitfalls—dull, meandering story lines with dreadful editing and camera-work—and gives the audience a gleefully OTT gore-fest with some occasional unintentionally-hilarious moments for good measure (the 'private eye versus muscle-man' fight scene, for example).

The effects are particularly gruesome and pretty realistic and include such delights as a syringe in the eye (in glorious close-up), a botched face transplant, a drill in the head, and a nice scissors-through-the-throat scene.

Franco also proves once again that he has an eye for beautiful women; loads of great looking ladies populate the movie, and although they don't get completely naked, they do wear some rather fetching skimpy underwear.

I'm still finding it hard to believe, but I have no hesitation in recommending this movie to all fans of horror and sleaze.

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