Faceless (film)

Faceless is a 1988 French slasher film directed by Jess Franco. The film is about Dr. Flamand Helmut Berger and his assistant Nathalie Brigitte Lahaie who lure unsuspecting victims to use their skin to perform plastic surgery on the doctors disfigured sister a plot reminiscent of Francos first film, Gritos en la noche 1961. Hallen Telly Savalas is a New York businessman who hires private detective Sam Morgan Chris Mitchum to find his missing fashion model daughter Barbara Caroline Munro. Other elements of the story include a Nazi doctor Anton Diffring and a chainsawpower tool tormentor who are called in by Dr. Flamand. This was Savalas final acting appearance before his death in 1994.

At a photo shoot in Paris, the doctors assistant Nathalie Brigitte Lahaie drugs and kidnaps Barbara Hallen Caroline Munro and locks her in a room in the basement of Flamands clinic. Whilst checking on other kidnapped girls, a scuffle starts with Natalie and Gordon Gerard Zalcberg, who lives in the basement chops off the girls arms.In New York City, Barbaras father Terry Hallen Telly Savalas is desperately awaiting a news of his daughter and hires a private detective, Sam Morgan Chris Mitchum, to go and find her. Once in Paris, Morganvisits a morgue with Brian Wallace Daniel Grimm of the Paris police to see a decapitated body, but knows its not Barbara due to a missing mole. ........

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