An
American top model named Barbara Hallen
(Caroline Munro) is kidnapped and
considered missing as she is locked away
in some sort of a plastic surgery centre
in the area of Paris as an evil doctor
named Frank Flamand (Helmut Berger) is
trying to do an experiment after his top
model named Ingrid Flamand (Christianne
Jean) was scarred by acid and needs a new
face replacement to make her look
beautiful again as many of the clients
there are eliminated one by one.
Barbara's multimillionaire shipowner
father Terry (Telly Savalas) enlists
private detective named Sam Morgan
(Christopher Mitchum) to fly down to
Paris and do some investigations on her
disappearance as this leads to madness
and mayhem as he tries to rescue Barbara
before it's too late but runs into all
sorts of scumbags at dance bars as well
as drug dealers too.
What a piece of
garbage this film is as the plot is very
weak but some nice dark moment and fairly
descent directions to it.
It is disturbing during some moments
throughout this story but the ending is
such a disappointment and made on quite a
low budget too.
The audio dubbing was a little off too.
The acting is
overdubbed due to strong accents probably
since this was shot in Spain and France
with mostly locals there.
Helmut Berger played a perfect evil
doctor obsessed with his creation as he
has a nice average aged look to him and
comes across evil.
Brigitte Lahaie was another one who
came across well portraying his evil wife
and has a great wicked appeal to her.
Christopher Mitchum didn't do
anything for me as an American trying to
search for the missing girl.
Telly Savalas had good strengths to
his character although he wasn't in the
story alot but when he was he did his
best.
Supporting actress Stephanie Audran stands
out greatly as a disturbed patient in a
wheelchair and shows good energy.
Scream queen Caroline Munro is a
little low on her energy however as the
imprisoned one in the rehab which is a
shame but shows nice shocking expressions
as well as aggressive one's.
The one who stands out the most is Gérard
Zalcberg as a retarded crazed
employee at the centre giving his part an
Igor type of feel.
A lady is lying in
a quiet room naked
There are some brief breast shots on some
women dancing at a bar.
A woman's face is
scarred
A woman's arms are cut off
A head is sawed off
Jesus Franco
directed this piece a little roughly but
has some shocking moments in it too which
looked good.
There was a good close up shot on Christiane
Jean screaming after acid was
splashed in her face as she shows great
freaked out expressions
Caroline Munro looked good when she
acts on getting high on drugs in a car
and also has nice shocking reactions when
she is mugged and having a needle put in
her arm.
We spot a nice dark setting with Helmut
Berger looking at his patients
through a glass window of a door as it
has a bit of an evil setting to it.
We have a mildly amusing brief dialogue
between Berger and small actress
Tilda Thamar when she discusses
her situation on his work with her
feeling younger which leaves an
impression as she seems to play sort of a
Sylvia Miles type of part.
Stephanie
Audran was well directed with her
coldness towards Berger's
character during many sequences in the
film at the hospital.
There
was a real creepy moment with Gérard
Zalcberg when he rapes Munro's
character in a quiet room which showed a
great cheesy horror feel to it.
There's nice shots on Brigitte Lahaie
coming towards Audran with a needle
in her hand acting cold and evil.
There's a comedic moment with small actor
Marcel Phippot being thrown
around by Christopher Mitchum
and then a corny fighting sequence with
him and other small actor Tony Awak but
it doesn't seem to fit in the dark
terrors of this film although it was
funnily directed.
There's a perfect dark shot on Zalcberg
holding a chainsaw in his laboratory and
then kissing a decapitated head as it
gives you that sick feeling and it was
very Texas Chainsaw Massacre
like.
Munro seemed to have a good lustful
voice in the quiet room by calling Zalcberg
to come to her.
There's another nice scene when he locks
small actress Florence Guerin in
his metal closet and then brings out a
power drill to do something deadly and
this time it looked very Slumber
Party Massacre like.
We spot nice shots on some dance clubs to
top it all off.
The music sounded
quite nice with the film by Romano
Musumarra as it seems to fit in in
while he also did the songtracks too
giving it that nice 80's type of pop
flavor to it.
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