8. Eyes Without A Face (1960)
In the late 1950s the production company Hammer Films produced two outstanding horror classics, The Curse of Frankenstein and Horror of Dracula. These iconic films proved popular with French audiences and francophone producer Jules Borkon wanted French cinema to create its own home-grown horror hit. Borkon tapped Georges Franju to direct this startling and poetic Faustian tale about the deranged Dr. Génessier, a brilliant surgeon who attempts to restore his daughter's beauty after a car accident destroys her face by capturing young women and grafting their faces onto his daughter's. Fanju delivers thrills and chilling atmosphere in spades while eliciting a brilliant performance from Edith Scob as the daughter and victim of Génessier's Frankenstein-like quest for scientific perfection. Make this film a must see on your Halloween list for its magnificient climax where Génessier learns there's a heavy price for tampering in God's domain.