Faceless (1987)

After his sister has acid thrown in her face, a notable plastic surgeon vows to give her her face back whatever the cost. Suddenly beautiful girls start to go missing and a privare detective is hired to find one of the missing girls.
A quite restrained effort fron Senór Franco, Faceless has echoes of Franju's Eyes Without A Face and Franco's own Awful Dr Orloff amongst others. Bolstered by a decent cast this turns out to be a quite accessable film, although there is quite a few gore moments that are quite effective. The whole picture has a look of a 1980s Jackie Collins movie - in fact it is a definite 80's movie, which does add a tad to the naff meter as the 80s were exceptionally devoid of style or class.
Strangely the very last line, delivered by the follically challenged Savalas is dubbed in French, which is a bugger because it's possible that line could alter the proceedings; I will endeavour to find out. Apart from that the ending was notable for themad scientist type actually winning through, his sister getting her new face and all is well, while the private eye and the model he was looing for, supposedly the heroes one would have thought, end up trapped, presumably for good. Different.
Special mention should made for Anton Diffring in what I believe to be his final role, as an ex Nazi doctor, who used to perform atrocities during the war and now hides out in Spain. In a pleasureable nod, the doctor is led to the Nazi by none other than Howard Vernon as Dr Orloff; a nice touch.