The Face of Terror Reviews

Rey is a plastic surgeon who gives a beautiful face to a mentally disturbed woman, Gaye, but she needs a special lotion to keep her new face in place. The transformed woman becomes extremely paranoid about her past as an inmate of an insane asylum, leading her to murder the man who gives her a job. Rey tries to restrain her, but she escapes him and marries a rich man. On her honeymoon, Gaye runs out of the lotion and changes back into her old, hideous self, causing her horrified groom to flee. She runs him over with a car, then returns to Rey's laboratory to acquire more of the precious lotion. There, she struggles with the doctor's assistant (Cuetos) and falls to her death, landing face down in the remainder of the lotion. For a brief period, this type of film became a movie minigenre in Spain. Reportedly, an American version with the same cast but produced by Jack Leroy Miles and directed by William J. Hole was put through an intense edit by censors, making the chances of getting a good film out of the material even more remote. All in all, a complete loss of face.