Get Out: Eyes Without a Face at SIFF Cinema

George Franju's Eyes Without a Face includes one of the most horrifying sequences we've ever seen in a movie theater. It was #1 until Irreversible came along, and this is a different kind of horror, so don't let any lingering Gaspar Noe trauma dissuade you from heading to SIFF Cinema this afternoon. It's horrifying the way Psycho would've been horrifying if we hadn't been spoiled on that film's secrets long before we actually watched it.

We'd seen a lot of other horror films on video, but popped into Eyes without knowing much more than a bare bones plot and that Pauline Kael called it "perhaps the most elegant horror film ever made."

And when the credits rolled, we thought it was great. Then the sequence began, and we were delightfully creeped out, and then popcorn-spilling-from-mouth horrified, and not knowing about it going in made it a whole lot more horrifying, so we'll stop talking about it now and let you discover it for yourself.

Really, the only downside to Eyes Without a Face is that, if you're like us, you'll be singing the Billy Idol song in your head for the next few days.

Eyes Without a Face plays today at SIFF Cinema at 2:00 and 7:30.