The Blood Rose

The Blood Rose (French: La Rose écorchée/ translation: The Flayed Rose) is a 1970 French horror film directed and co-written by Claude Mulot.[1] The French title translates as "The Flayed Rose". The film involves a portraitist named Frederick Lansac (Philippe Lemaire) wanting to restore his wife Anne's (Anny Duperey) face to its former beauty after it was disfigured in an accident. Lansac tries to force a surgeon named Rohmer (Howard Vernon) to perform a transplant on her.

For the Marvel Comics character who used the alias Blood Rose, see Richard Fisk.
The Blood Rose
American film poster for The Blood Rose
Directed byClaude Mulot
Written by
  • Claude Mulot
  • Jean Larriaga
  • Edgar Oppenheimer
Starring
CinematographyRoger Fellous[1]
Edited byMonique Kirsanoff[1]
Production
company
Transatlantic Productions
Distributed byAllied Artists[2]
Release date
  • September 25, 1970 (1970-09-25) (France)
Running time
95 minutes[1]
CountryFrance

Plot

Frederick Lansac is a botanist and portraitist who runs a beauty salon. Lansac meets and falls in love with Anne at a dress ball and the two get married. The two move into Lansac's home but at one of Lansac's portrait exhibitions, Anne's face is pushed into a bonfire by a jealous woman which horribly scars Anne's face. Anne isolates herself in her home where she slowly becomes less mentally stable as well as having erotic dreams about her nurse Agnès. Lansac learns that one of his clients, Dr. Rohmer is a former plastic surgeon who has halted from practising medicine and currently only performs plastic surgery on criminals. Lansac blackmails Rohmer into performing a grafting surgery on his wife to restore her former beauty. Lansac tricks two of his female clients to his home to become the donors for his wife's new face but the two die in the process. Barbara (Élizabeth Teissier), the sister of Anne's former nurse comes to the chateau to look for her sibling, but finds Anne who demands to have her face. Barbara manages to escape and Rohmer commits suicide. Realizing how far his wife has grown into madness, Lansac has his wife killed by his servants and then gives himself up to the police.

Production

The film was shot between May 8, 1969, and June 2, 1969.[1] The film is one of the many unofficial remakes of the film Eyes Without a Face.[3] Other unofficial remakes include The Awful Dr. Orloff and Corruption.[3]

Release

The Blood Rose opened in France on September 25, 1970.[1] The film was shown in the United States in Detroit on October 28, 1970.[2] The film had scenes involving lesbianism that were cut for its American theatrical release.[2]

Contemporary advertisements hailed it as "The First Sex-Horror Film Ever Made."[4]

The film was released on DVD by Mondo Macabro in 2007.[5]

Notes
  1. "The Blood Rose". Bifi.fr (in French). Retrieved April 16, 2013.
  2. American Film Institute, 1997. p. 104
  3. Smith, Richard Harland. "Home Video Reviews". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved April 16, 2013.
  4. Advertisement (February 11, 1971). "Joy Drive-In Theatre". Waco News-Tribune. p. 9-D.
  5. "La Rose Ecorchee". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved April 16, 2013.

References
  • The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Film beginnings, 1893-1910. (2v.). University of California Press. 1997. ISBN 0520209702.
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