Scalpel (False Face)

<div><div><div>Part of our series 'PHANTASMA-GEORGIA!: GA on Film 1975 - 1979'.</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A demented version of Pygmalion, with a dash of FRANKENSTEIN and EYES WITHOUT A FACE thrown in.” -- The Bloody Pit of Horror</div><div><br></div><div>He lost the face of the woman he love...so he gave it to someone else. T.V. staple Robert Lansing (Star Trek, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone) stars as a deranged surgeon in this exemplary slice of Southern-fried gothic from BLOOD RAGE director John Grissmer and celebrated cinematographer Edward Lachman (KEN PARK, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES).</div><div><br></div><div>Lansing plays Dr. Phillip Reynolds, a man whose daughter Heather (Judith Chapman, As the World Turns, General Hospital) has run away from home a year prior following the suspicious death of her boyfriend. When he happens across a young woman one night, her face beaten beyond recognition, the unhinged Reynolds sees his opportunity to put his trusty scalpel to use -- hatching a plan to “reconstruct” her face in the image of his missing daughter, and so claim her sizeable inheritance.</div>ThrillerPT1H35MR2026-10-21USen
Robert Lansing
Judith Chapman
Arlen Dean Snyder
John Grissmer
John Grissmer
Scalpel (False Face)"Scalpel (False Face)"

Showtimes

October 21, 7:30 pm

Plaza Theatre