The elegant yet eerie mask has become a symbol for the film, leaving behind an indelible mark on the horror genre.

Genessier taking on the Victor Frankenstein role, while Christiane becomes his monstrous creation. The movie plays like an updated take on the Frankenstein story, with Dr. As the film’s title indicates, Christiane’s eyes are the only sense of humanity we see behind the expressionless mask. Genessier kidnaps and murders young women in an attempt to graft their faces onto Christiane.Ī prisoner in her father’s mansion while she waits for a successful operation, Christiane’s forced to wear a white, almost featureless mask, making her a sad but haunting figure. Genessier, a plastic surgeon who is responsible for a car accident that disfigured his daughter, Christiane. That is the case with 1959’s Les Yeux Sans Visage ( Eyes Without a Face), the French horror film about a disfigured young woman forced to wear a haunting mask. Sometimes the mask doesn’t belong to the monster itself but to the source of its evil.