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When Georges Franju died in 1987, he felt bitterly dissatisfied with the spottycritical reception of his film career. Perhaps some of this neglect can be attributedto his allegedly volatile personality-at least one critic described his reputationas "the CGline of conversationalists, a man of 'torrential vehemence' spittingout excremental expletives like a tracer-stream of olive pits."3 But Franju's shadowypresence in film history probably has more to do with a remarkably multifacetedcareer that resists convenient categorization into any of its individualcomponents: co-founder (with Henri Langlois) of the Cin matheque Frangaise(1937), secretary general of the Institut de Cinematographie Scientifique (1944-54), documentarist, fiction filmmaker, Left Bank director, proto-New Wavist, andSurrealist heir. This essay seeks to add yet another label to this unwieldy list:pioneer of the modern horror film.By examining the development of a horror-inflected aesthetic in Franju's twomost significant films, Le Sang des bates (Blood of the Beasts, 1949) and Les Yeuxsans visage (Eyes Without a Face, 1959), I hope to lend a certain coherence to acareer that has not received the analysis it deserves

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Adam Lowenstein

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