I'd like to see a remastered print of Mansion of the Doomed. It was the first horror movie I ever saw (back in the early '80's on Betamax) and it was released in the UK as Massacre Mansion.
It was a loose reworking of Georges Franju's Les yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face), about a crazed surgeon whose reckless driving leaves his daughter blind and so, after countless unsuccessful tests, decides to find unwitting 'donors.'
One scene I will ever forget was of a man with no eyes trying to claw his way out of a cellar and run to safety, despite not being able to see anything.
A lot of future talent was involved. Lance Henriksen (Aliens) had a role in it, Stan Winston provided the makeup, the cinematographer would later direct The Fugitive and the producer was Charles Band.
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