10 Horror Movies That Everyone Loves Now (But Hated Before)
8. Eyes Without A Face
From the year 1960 and director Georges Franju comes Eyes Without a Face, a tale of horror, intrigue, and plastic surgery.
A doctor (Pierre Brasseur) goes to extreme lengths to perform a face transplant on his disfigured daughter, becoming more and more unhinged as his attempts fail. At least he never tried to graft John Travolta or Nicholas Cage onto her.
This French-Italian joint effort was pretty groundbreaking for the time, and a battle over censorship ensued in its wake. It was even edited and renamed for its release in the US.
Nobody quite knew what to make of Eyes Without a Face when it first came out. Response to the movie ranged from disgust to confusion to awe, and it was only in the years after it came out that it began to be fully admired.
A 1986 re-release helped change critical opinion of the movie, as did a subsequent American re-release in 2003. Not only is the feature now considered an all-timer, but its influence on the genre has been outlined by a number of authors.
Not bad for something that was twinned with a film called "The Manster" in its initial run.