A young girl is seen escaping from a building, bloodied and battered. The girl is Lucie Jurin who was abducted and tortured for over a year. She is placed into care where she befriends Anna. Years later, Lucie finds the couple who abducted her and goes back to enact revenge on them. Martyrs is a French film …
Continue reading Day 21- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Martyrs (2008)
A famous plastic surgeon causes a car accident in which his daughter’s face is disfigured. The surgeon coincidentally has a new theory he's dying to test out which involves transplanting whole faces. This could save his daughter’s maimed features but this procedure involves donors- willing or not. I first saw this film when I was …
Continue reading Day 9- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Les Yeux Sans Visage/Eyes Without a Face (1960)
The daughter of a famous plastic surgeon causes a car accident in which his daughter’s face is disfigured. The surgeon has a new theory he's dying to carry out which involves transplanting a face to replace his daughter’s maimed features but this involves donors- willing or not. I first saw this film when I was …
Continue reading Day 8- 31 Days of Halloween- Les Yeux Sans Visage/ Eyes Without a Face (1960)
Every day in October I will be reviewing a different horror film. Some of the criteria I've used for the choice of films are - a film from each decade from the 1920s onwards - films from a number of different countries - a Friday the 13th film as within October this year the 13th falls on a Friday!!! …
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