| Faceless | |
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| Directed by | Jesús Franco |
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| Story by | René Château |
| Produced by | René Château |
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| Cinematography | Maurice Fellous[1] |
| Edited by | Christine Pansu[1] |
| Music by | Romano Musumarra[1] |
Production company | René Château Productions[2] |
| Distributed by | Éditions René Chateau (Paris)[2] |
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Running time | 97 minutes[2] |
| Country | France |
| Language | English |
Faceless (French: Les prédateurs de la nuit) is a 1988 French horror film directed by Jesús Franco. The film stars Helmut Berger as Dr. Flamand, Brigitte Lahaie as Nathalie, Christopher Mitchum as Sam Morgan, and Stéphane Audran. In the film, Dr. Flamand and his assistant Nathalie lure unsuspecting victims to use their skin to perform plastic surgery on the doctor's disfigured sister. A New York businessman hires private detective Sam Morgan to find his missing fashion model daughter.
The film was Franco's highest budget film since the 1960s. It was produced by René Château, a home video distributor in France who had released various genre films to the French video market. The narrative of the film was very similar to that of Franco's film The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962), a film he remade a few times during his career. It was released theatrically in Paris and received lukewarm reviews from French genre magazine Mad Movies and a negative one from Variety.