At the end of Holy Motorsl, Edith Scob puts on a mask and walks out of the luxury car and disappears into the night. This arrangement is one of the director’s many homogees. This clip pays tribute to the starring Edith Scob as a girl. Les yeux sans visage, who went to watch this movie with an unprepared mind, I have to say that he was a little surprised-abandoned bodies in the dark, exposed shots, crazy and paranoid doctors, fierce hunting dogs raised in the manor, a A young girl who was brutally murdered (Poe was laughing), always felt a little bit of German expressionism, such as Mad Love starring Peter Lorre that was remade by Hollywood in the 1930s, the original 1924 German Orlacs Hände, The mad scientist fell in love with diva, transplanted a pair of murderer's hands to commit crimes, and tried to get the love of the goddess by framing her husband, but in the end he was frantically digging his grave without a place to bury him. Horror movies in Europe and the United States like to make a fuss on the human body. A big type is probably the cutting and transplanting of the body by mad scientists, changing hands and feet, transplanting the heart, cutting the brain, changing the eyes, changing the face, changing the body parts, the master Frankenstein , Or change it with other creatures, change into a little fly or something. Later, the mainstream commercialization gradually stopped feeling scary, such as face/off. Of course, China also has the story of "Painted Skin" which can be compared.
This film feels a bit subtle because it is half-Italian. In fact, there is a very strong team. The screenwriter includes the director himself and the author of the original novel, as well as the co-wrote of Cruzo’s business card "The Devil" and later Hitchcco Vertigo duo Boileau-Narcejac. The photographer is very powerful and has taken Eugen Schüfftan in Metropolis. The exciting soundtrack of the opening melody is impressive. A few years later, the composer is Maurice Jarre, who won numerous awards for films such as "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago". The rhythm of the film is calm and full of classical features. There is a cemetery, manor castle, basement, and a paranoid surgeon who tends to love women. It should be said that the original motive of the father's murder and crime was to restore the appearance of his daughter, and to do evil under this motive. , He also has a loyal accomplice, Louise, as his right-hand man. These two people are quite similar to the prototype of the relationship between Dr. Frankstein and Igor: a scientific maniac must have a loyal assistant and servant around him to do the dirty work for him.
Even with a somewhat formulaic character setting and plot arrangement, the movie is still poetic. For example, the white pigeon at the end of the film (changing face + white pigeon will probably make people jump directly to face/off). It seems that it is a pure horror film. Obviously simple, similar to the night of the hunter, they can integrate horror elements with existing types and structures, such as noir, rainy night, ditches, cemeteries, barking dogs, huge ceilings, and the artistic conception is deep and long enough, as if it is nocturnal. The vampire builds a coffin and waits for you to lie in and dream.
Jesus Franco, who passed away two days ago, seems to have a special liking for this film. Several of his over a hundred works draw inspiration from it. For example, Helmut Berger's faceless has similar storylines, and the pictures will only be more bloody. Heavier.
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