THEME EXPLORATION

disfigurement

5 films · 1 director

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
The Faded Lilies
The Faded Lilies
1909 · D.W. Griffith
A Woman’s Face
A Woman’s Face
1941 · George Cukor
The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera
2004 · Joel Schumacher
The Man Who Laughs
The Man Who Laughs
1966 · Sergio Corbucci
Punisher: War Zone
Punisher: War Zone
2008 · Lexi Alexander
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
David Lynch USA

His films obsessively explore physical and psychological disfigurement as markers of hidden darkness and societal corruption, most viscerally in The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.