Stephen Thrower, in his amazing two-part, utterly comprehensive, coffee table volumes on Jess Franco (Murderous Passions and Flowers of Perversion) described this as what would happen if Patsy from Absolutely Fabulous directed a movie.
To answer the question posed - Alfred Hitchcock’s remake of his own “Man wo knew too much” is a good one. Also, Tim Burton’s feature length Frankenweenie is okay, but I do refer the original short.
This movie deserves to linger in movie purgatory. They broke a cardinal rule of schlocky moviedom: Thou shalt not mess with Caroline Munro's face. The fiends!
I really like this flick (whilst acknowledging all of its myriad faults and general not great-ness). What a bizarre assemblage of a cast. Definitely Franco's last competent film, at any rate. And Jess was king of remaking his own stuff: three different permutations of 'Eugenie', for a start. Now there's recycling.
I think this is a good choice to review as it's one of Jess's best and most conventionally professional of his later films. With such a stellar cast, it's a lot of fun too. Any film boasting both Caroline Munro AND Brigitte Lahaie in it has just got to have something going for it 👍😁
You had me at Caroline Munro. Also it would have made sense if they kept her around as a backup in case they never got another girl. 'In a pinch, we'll use her since the scarring is minor. We'd prefer perfect, but we might not have that option."
Yojimbo and, well there have been at least a dozen remakes of that in various genres. The Warrior and the Sorceress with David Carradine might be the best fit for this channel but Omega Doom with Rutger Hauer could work as well.
It's been a (very) long time since I saw the original Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux sans visage), which, btw, I learnt of via Billy Idol's song. But one thing I remember was the character of the detective seemed an obvious prototype of the American TV detective Columbo. I think Faceless would have benefitted from Telly Savalas playing the detective and doing him as Kojak.
Surprised no-one has mentioned the uncredited 'Eyes Without A Face' remake that starred Peter Cushing! It was called 'Corruption' (1968) and was very nasty for its time. Also quite psychedelic if I recall correctly. And quite bad too!
Am sure there was a hardcore version of this movie, he was known for making multiple cuts of the same movie often prawn versions. I do remember watching this with both different endings but I seem to recall a hardcore edit also. Could be confusing with another of his many films and it's has been over twenty years since I last watched a Jess Franco movie but am just sure of it.
I loved it. Utterly sleazy, hilarious slayings, cheezy 80s tunes, packed with B-movie legends and by Jess Franco standards of sloppiness and miss-timed mood, it's Citizen Kane.
I do find it interesting that any film director would think that the best way to remake a horror classic like Eyes Without A Face is to gore it up. Then again, other directors like to rip-off scenes from classic films that the director doesn't think anyone else has seen (i.e. Diabolique & Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte). While James Wan is a brilliant director, he does tend to repeat the same scare techniques over and over in his films. From Dead Silence to Insidious to The Conjuring, James Wan likes to combine Universal b&w tone with Mario Bava creepy color faces.
Anyone notice when they're walling the detective and that girl up that they're not using any cement or anything between the block? They're just stacking blocks. :)
Howard Hawks remade Rio Bravo twice, as El Dorado and Rio Lobo, all with John Wayne basically playing the same role. Love the first two, don't think I've seen the third.
First it has Caroline Munro , the best chest in British films ( she should get a knighthood just for her cleavage ). And Telly Savalas, the best scene chewer in film history ( he ate half of Eastern Europe in KELLY'S HEROES). Past that .... Another straight to video release that spent its first few years in the dollar section ( and was lucky if it ever left the store), a couple more years appearing on television in the after Midnight slot. And finally down the memory hole. George Romero revisited NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD five times, each time from a different angle.
Howard Hawks made Rio Bravo, El Diablo and Rio Lobo, all basically the same material, all with John Wayne. Rio Bravo is the best, no question. It's my favorite Western, and it is one of the best screenplays I've ever read. It was written mainly by Leigh Brackett, who also wrote, among other things, the original screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back. Hawks liked it so much he made El Dorado and Rio Lobo as I previously mentioned. John Carpenter made Assault on Precinct 13 with elements of Rio Bravo, and Ghosts of Mars which has elements of Rio Bravo and Assault. Eyes Without a Face didn't need to be remade into this. It is such a good film, it's easy to understand why Franco would want to remake it, but then, as you say, he complicates it. I had seen it before Eyes... and I couldn't make up my mind if it was a bad horror film or a bad giallo film. It's a little bit of both and not good as either.
Steven Spielberg might have an unofficial trilogy of films that are about people attacked by dangerous forces beyond their control in Duel, Jaws, and Jurassic Park. With Jaws, Spielberg referred to it as making a sequel to Duel. And with Jurassic Park, he described it as making "a really good sequel to Jaws." With Duel, we have man versus machine. With Jaws, man versus nature. With Jurassic Park, it's man versus an engineered kind of nature that breaks free from man's control.
Poor Helmut Berger - spends years working with Visconti and finally winds up with Franco. But I guess every star gets to do at least one horror film. Heck, even Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Crawford, and Joseph Cotten reached the bottom of the barrel at times.
@@Oppeldeldoc1 hey thanks for the reply. I had a feeling that could be the case. The last name is an unusual spelling and the fact that she's British lead me to that conclusion. Thanks for confirming it
"Eyes Without A Face" is one of my all-time favorite movies; an absolute work of art, IMO. But I can't decide if that's a good reason to watch this cheesy knockoff/remake, or a good reason _not_ to watch it.
Not exactly top-drawer Franco, despite one of his best casts. A rather uninspired rehash of his Gritos En La Noche, itself a rip-off, but way better than Faceless. He did like to revisit themes and stories, I suppose it's inevitable if you are as prolific as Jess was. For a better film that's a reworking of one of Jess's earlier works, try She Killed In Ecstasy, which is a re-visit of The Diabolical Doctor Z, starring Soledad Miranda.
@@LarryFleetwood8675 Or one of the Firemen in Fahrenheit 451, one of the German Officers in Where Eagles Dare and even De Flores in the classic Dr Who series Silver Nemesis (Apparently he only signed up for that so he go and watch Wimbledon)
Oh Caroline Munro, how many films have you starred in not worthy of either your looks or talent? MANIAC was a plus in your career! And boy how hard it is for Robert Mitchum's son trying to follow in his dad's footsteps when he's cast opposite Kojak in a film NOT worthy of Kojak!
Messy or not, this movie is entertaining with a new cult or would be cult face showing up every 10 minutes, Stephane"chabrol"Audran, AntonCircusOfHorrorsDiffring, Howard" every Franco movie Vernon, Florence Guerin
No, he wasn't gay in the least. He was a macho kind of guy. Had his share of brawls during his life. Had 3 sons and while I do think he had his share of flings, he stayed with his wife 'til he died.
It's unfortunate that the film is such a mess, because Eyes Without of A Face is one of the best horror films I've ever seen. A personal favourite of mine, in fact :)
From New Years Day 1980 to New Years Eve 1989 there were maybe five good movies made by anyone anywhere. The worst decade for film without question. Look at how they wasted Telly Savales in this crap. Not to mention the always watchable Caroline Munro.
Aliens. A Fish Called Wanda. Raging Bull. Back to the Future. The Empire Strikes Back. Witness. Jagged Edge. Ran. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Ghostbusters. The Princess Bride. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Predator. Robocop. Raising Arizona. Hellraiser. Withnail & I. Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Die Hard. Beetlejuice. The Thing. The Naked Gun. The Vanishing. If you can't find anything worthwhile in that very incomplete list, then you've clearly not been trying.
@@andrewgwilliam4831 I hate Raging Bull and all Scorsese films that show people doing the wrong thing again and again all their lives. Star Wars is cowboys in space stupid crap. I do like Ghostbusters and Wrath Of Khan. Roger Rabbit is the most unlikable cartoon character ever. The remake of The Thing is pretty good. Die Hard is really really corny and predictable. Aliens is nowhere as good as the first one, it's just milking the money. Predator is kind of fun. Most of these films are popcorn movie type empty headed crap.
@@buzzawuzza3743 So with little effort I came up with 4 films you like, even in a haphazard list that happened to be heavy on mainstream Hollywood fare. That leaves I think 1 independent US film and 5 non-US films including 2 foreign-language ones that you haven't commented on one way or the other... plus all the films I left off because the list was already long enough.
@@andrewgwilliam4831 Somewhere along the line you decided to take me LITERALLY with my sarcastic comment about about how bad the 1980s were for films. And you left out The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai and the Elephant Man, the two best films from then.
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It’s got Caroline Monroe AND Brigitte Lahaie??? 😍😍😍 And enough sleaze to make Jim Wynorsky blush? How have I not heard of this before???
Charles Grybosky starcrash love that film 🎞
I thought that was Brigitte, was about to check :)
jaxxstraw I would know Brigitte anywhere❤️❤️❤️
One of the best tits
@@TheMasonson What's wrong with the other one?
Fun fact for my fellow MSTies out there - Jess Franco also directed _The Castle of Fu Manchu._ Let that sit with you for a moment.
Stephen Thrower, in his amazing two-part, utterly comprehensive, coffee table volumes on Jess Franco (Murderous Passions and Flowers of Perversion) described this as what would happen if Patsy from Absolutely Fabulous directed a movie.
To answer the question posed - Alfred Hitchcock’s remake of his own “Man wo knew too much” is a good one. Also, Tim Burton’s feature length Frankenweenie is okay, but I do refer the original short.
I love the dead pan delivery- 'maybe if you aimed for something other than the fire extinguisher"
This movie deserves to linger in movie purgatory. They broke a cardinal rule of schlocky moviedom: Thou shalt not mess with Caroline Munro's face. The fiends!
I really like this flick (whilst acknowledging all of its myriad faults and general not great-ness). What a bizarre assemblage of a cast. Definitely Franco's last competent film, at any rate. And Jess was king of remaking his own stuff: three different permutations of 'Eugenie', for a start. Now there's recycling.
How have I not heard of this? What a combo!
due to the blood boiling away in his face like pudding in a copper... OH THE HUMANITY.mst3k joke 😂
That detective looks more like Brian Clough than Robert Mitchum.
The outspoken Notts Forest manager's movie career is largely overlooked these days.
He looks EXACTLY like his dad.
@@jeffreyriley8742 yes a sweet shop owner from Middlesbrough.
I think this is a good choice to review as it's one of Jess's best and most conventionally professional of his later films. With such a stellar cast, it's a lot of fun too. Any film boasting both Caroline Munro AND Brigitte Lahaie in it has just got to have something going for it 👍😁
It’s fun
You had me at Caroline Munro.
Also it would have made sense if they kept her around as a backup in case they never got another girl. 'In a pinch, we'll use her since the scarring is minor. We'd prefer perfect, but we might not have that option."
You had me at Christopher Mitchum.
Yojimbo and, well there have been at least a dozen remakes of that in various genres. The Warrior and the Sorceress with David Carradine might be the best fit for this channel but Omega Doom with Rutger Hauer could work as well.
It's been a (very) long time since I saw the original Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux sans visage), which, btw, I learnt of via Billy Idol's song. But one thing I remember was the character of the detective seemed an obvious prototype of the American TV detective Columbo. I think Faceless would have benefitted from Telly Savalas playing the detective and doing him as Kojak.
Surprised no-one has mentioned the uncredited 'Eyes Without A Face' remake that starred Peter Cushing! It was called 'Corruption' (1968) and was very nasty for its time. Also quite psychedelic if I recall correctly. And quite bad too!
It WAS very bad,wasnt it?.Cushing has scenes attacking young girls on trains and beaches,all seems a bit sleasy for him !
I still don’t get or hear the “15 days” reference.
Excellent video review 👍
Isn't Chris Mitchum absolutely bloody awful? Despite him, I love this film and all its flaws. Thanks for a wonderful and very funny review.
Truly the real horror of it all.
He's up there with Chris Lemmon as untalented offspring in movies because of parents.
Love that King Kong on your shelf - I've got the same one on mine! (er, one just like it...)
Can’t believe they’re releasing a 4K BD of this later in the month or so.
You bet your bums I’m picking this one up!
Am sure there was a hardcore version of this movie, he was known for making multiple cuts of the same movie often prawn versions. I do remember watching this with both different endings but I seem to recall a hardcore edit also. Could be confusing with another of his many films and it's has been over twenty years since I last watched a Jess Franco movie but am just sure of it.
I know Chris Mitchum from his appearances in John Wayne movies from the Duke's twilight years (Chisum, Rio Lobo, Big Jake)
Rio lobo
I loved it. Utterly sleazy, hilarious slayings, cheezy 80s tunes, packed with B-movie legends and by Jess Franco standards of sloppiness and miss-timed mood, it's Citizen Kane.
I do find it interesting that any film director would think that the best way to remake a horror classic like Eyes Without A Face is to gore it up. Then again, other directors like to rip-off scenes from classic films that the director doesn't think anyone else has seen (i.e. Diabolique & Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte).
While James Wan is a brilliant director, he does tend to repeat the same scare techniques over and over in his films. From Dead Silence to Insidious to The Conjuring, James Wan likes to combine Universal b&w tone with Mario Bava creepy color faces.
THE THING (1982), THE FLY (1986) and THE BLOB (1988) are superior gorier remakes.
Something about your voice and/or delivery reminds me of the original Holly on "Red Dwarf". In the best possible way.
Mst3k joke Gee, even the movie "The Fog" didn't have this much fog.🤣
3:14 good old Anton Driffing of "Circus Of Horrors" !
Wish you would go live with The Critical Drinker and Rob Ager to discuss films....it would be epic.
Anyone notice when they're walling the detective and that girl up that they're not using any cement or anything between the block? They're just stacking blocks. :)
That's the true horror: sloppy workmanship! 😱
@@andrewgwilliam4831 I guess so. :)
Howard Hawks remade Rio Bravo twice, as El Dorado and Rio Lobo, all with John Wayne basically playing the same role. Love the first two, don't think I've seen the third.
It beats bravo.
Anton Diffring also played a similar role in 1960's circus of horrors.
First it has Caroline Munro , the best chest in British films ( she should get a knighthood just for her cleavage ). And Telly Savalas, the best scene chewer in film history ( he ate half of Eastern Europe in KELLY'S HEROES). Past that .... Another straight to video release that spent its first few years in the dollar section ( and was lucky if it ever left the store), a couple more years appearing on television in the after Midnight slot. And finally down the memory hole.
George Romero revisited NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD five times, each time from a different angle.
Dan D Doty starcrash it’s starcrash 😂
And it has Anton Diffring! From Truffaut to Franco...
Sadly he died not long after this film.
Can you review "World Without End"(1956) with Hugh Marlowe & Rod Taylor ?
Not exactly a bad movie but some dark corners in its bright spots ! Thanks !
Probably shouldn't have been eating pizza while watching this review.
Howard Hawks made Rio Bravo, El Diablo and Rio Lobo, all basically the same material, all with John Wayne. Rio Bravo is the best, no question. It's my favorite Western, and it is one of the best screenplays I've ever read. It was written mainly by Leigh Brackett, who also wrote, among other things, the original screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back. Hawks liked it so much he made El Dorado and Rio Lobo as I previously mentioned. John Carpenter made Assault on Precinct 13 with elements of Rio Bravo, and Ghosts of Mars which has elements of Rio Bravo and Assault. Eyes Without a Face didn't need to be remade into this. It is such a good film, it's easy to understand why Franco would want to remake it, but then, as you say, he complicates it. I had seen it before Eyes... and I couldn't make up my mind if it was a bad horror film or a bad giallo film. It's a little bit of both and not good as either.
Steven Smyth I think the coast is... Thunk! Oh no his head must have gone about 75 feet! Mst3k joke 🤣
el dorado
Steven Spielberg might have an unofficial trilogy of films that are about people attacked by dangerous forces beyond their control in Duel, Jaws, and Jurassic Park. With Jaws, Spielberg referred to it as making a sequel to Duel. And with Jurassic Park, he described it as making "a really good sequel to Jaws." With Duel, we have man versus machine. With Jaws, man versus nature. With Jurassic Park, it's man versus an engineered kind of nature that breaks free from man's control.
Connor Brennan jaws 3d enough said🤣
Michael Mann's Heat is a remake of L.A. Takedown, a movie that he made in 1989.
Probably Michael mann's HEAT which was him revisiting LA Takedown
i think you seriously missed an opportunity for an Edgar Allan Poe joke when they walled up the door near the end
Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse series!
Poor Helmut Berger - spends years working with Visconti and finally winds up with Franco. But I guess every star gets to do at least one horror film. Heck, even Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Crawford, and Joseph Cotten reached the bottom of the barrel at times.
"Perfegt"...
Isn't this just a remake of the Peter Cushing movie _Corruption_ (1968) ?
5:33 Shades of a certain 28-years lasting very murderous wall.
Since I know you're aware of the Blind Dead films...I think that answers your question.
Caroline Munro any relation to Janet Munro-- who starred in The Crawling Eye. She died in the seventies I believe
Her daughter from what I understand.
@@Oppeldeldoc1 hey thanks for the reply. I had a feeling that could be the case. The last name is an unusual spelling and the fact that she's British lead me to that conclusion. Thanks for confirming it
I can't find any info on that. Janet had 2 children Sally and Corrie and Munro was her stage name.
@@DarkCornersReviews thanks Robin. I guess I'm back to square one but at least I asked the question.
Janet Munro was born in 1934, Caroline Munro in 1949. They might be related but not mother-daughter.
Kinda embarrassing that the face removal from 1987 looks so much worse than the one from 1960.
"Eyes Without A Face" is one of my all-time favorite movies; an absolute work of art, IMO. But I can't decide if that's a good reason to watch this cheesy knockoff/remake, or a good reason _not_ to watch it.
RUN! DON'T LOOK BACK!
I LOVE Robert Mitcham!
1:08 an 0scar for this makeup
Wow telly savalas!!
Must've shot his scenes in one day, I don't think he leaves that office setting.
Not exactly top-drawer Franco, despite one of his best casts. A rather uninspired rehash of his Gritos En La Noche, itself a rip-off, but way better than Faceless. He did like to revisit themes and stories, I suppose it's inevitable if you are as prolific as Jess was. For a better film that's a reworking of one of Jess's earlier works, try She Killed In Ecstasy, which is a re-visit of The Diabolical Doctor Z, starring Soledad Miranda.
What's great is whenever Franco manages to create a new movie with a new plot but made up entirely of clips from earlier films.
Well, poor old Jess Franco \💀/
Christ, that botched face transplant must've looked pretty graphic if you had to blur it!
Caroline Munro? Someone alert Brandon Tenold!
A bad movie? Yes. But still one of Franco's most watchable and entertaining. Not to mention the cast.
Love this movie
A shame to see Anton Differing in rubbish. He was in two of my favourites, The Man Who Could Cheat Death and Circus of Horrors.
Or Stephane Audran, from Chabrol to Franco.
@@LarryFleetwood8675 Or one of the Firemen in Fahrenheit 451, one of the German Officers in Where Eagles Dare and even De Flores in the classic Dr Who series Silver Nemesis (Apparently he only signed up for that so he go and watch Wimbledon)
Did Savalas run out of lollipop money?
Ran out of Kojak tele movies
Evil Dead 2 was basically a remake of The Evil Dead will a larger budget
Good help is hard to find. LOL and Caroline Munro
I DO have to admit that I love Brigitte Lahie, though.
I would love to watch a movie with Caroline Munro and Telly Savalas! Directed by Jess Franco? Uh...no, I'll pass.
Someone trying to destroy the beauty of Caroline Munro? How did you even face doing this review? 😱
(Sorry, I couldn't help myself.)
No movie with Caroline Munro in it is bad.
No movie with Caroline Munro is unwatchable.... but still bad.
You must be blind Paul Atreides.
Then you haven't seen Luigi Cozzi's The Black Cat (1989). Even bad Franco is better than that drek.
Disagree with this movie being bad.. One of the more memorable films I have seen actually
I take it the actress in the wheelchair had a good roll.
If you think this is bad, you should see how Verotika handles the material.
Telly Sevalas?? And, Anton Differing AGAIN in another horror flick about plastic surgery?
And then Anton meets the Cybermen.
@@kemmdog4444 As yet another nazi, if I recall.
Oh Caroline Munro, how many films have you starred in not worthy of either your looks or talent? MANIAC was a plus in your career! And boy how hard it is for Robert Mitchum's son trying to follow in his dad's footsteps when he's cast opposite Kojak in a film NOT worthy of Kojak!
was 'the more I hear about him [a nazi], the more I don't like him' a nod to Norm Macdonald's Hitler joke?
I'm pretty sure Rich Hall said it first
Messy or not, this movie is entertaining with a new cult or would be cult face showing up every 10 minutes, Stephane"chabrol"Audran, AntonCircusOfHorrorsDiffring, Howard" every Franco movie Vernon, Florence Guerin
Believe it or not I’m William katt mst3k joke 🤣
Can't go wrong with telly s.
I thought Robert Mitchum was gay. Never knew he had a son.
He was married to one woman only, for 57 years. They had two sons & a daughter. Make of that what you will. He was pretty wild. 🚬
No, he wasn't gay in the least. He was a macho kind of guy. Had his share of brawls during his life. Had 3 sons and while I do think he had his share of flings, he stayed with his wife 'til he died.
@@SirKevinH Not that I believe Mitchum was gay, but being macho hardly rules it out.
@@andrewgwilliam4831 No, it doesn't. I just have never heard any rumors of that. Most likely Mr. Lima confused him with another actor.
@@SirKevinH Maybe it's his son who was! Heh.
Jesus Franco never made a decent film in his entire career, but they were usually pretty watchable if you know what I mean.
Man, de stench.
Faceless....................worthless...............senseless..............go on.............
It's unfortunate that the film is such a mess, because Eyes Without of A Face is one of the best horror films I've ever seen. A personal favourite of mine, in fact :)
From New Years Day 1980 to New Years Eve 1989 there were maybe five good movies made by anyone anywhere. The worst decade for film without question. Look at how they wasted Telly Savales in this crap. Not to mention the always watchable Caroline Munro.
Aliens. A Fish Called Wanda. Raging Bull. Back to the Future. The Empire Strikes Back. Witness. Jagged Edge. Ran. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Ghostbusters. The Princess Bride. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Predator. Robocop. Raising Arizona. Hellraiser. Withnail & I. Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Die Hard. Beetlejuice. The Thing. The Naked Gun. The Vanishing.
If you can't find anything worthwhile in that very incomplete list, then you've clearly not been trying.
@@andrewgwilliam4831 I hate Raging Bull and all Scorsese films that show people doing the wrong thing again and again all their lives. Star Wars is cowboys in space stupid crap. I do like Ghostbusters and Wrath Of Khan. Roger Rabbit is the most unlikable cartoon character ever. The remake of The Thing is pretty good. Die Hard is really really corny and predictable. Aliens is nowhere as good as the first one, it's just milking the money. Predator is kind of fun. Most of these films are popcorn movie type empty headed crap.
@@buzzawuzza3743 So with little effort I came up with 4 films you like, even in a haphazard list that happened to be heavy on mainstream Hollywood fare. That leaves I think 1 independent US film and 5 non-US films including 2 foreign-language ones that you haven't commented on one way or the other... plus all the films I left off because the list was already long enough.
@@andrewgwilliam4831 Somewhere along the line you decided to take me LITERALLY with my sarcastic comment about about how bad the 1980s were for films. And you left out The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai and the Elephant Man, the two best films from then.