A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type
of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage, and his guinea pig is a
mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Pedro Almodóvar successfully presents a very personal homage to old-school horror, with an especially obvious wink to Les yeux sans visage, all in the guise of an off-kilter melodrama.
Maltin**1/2: "Unusually bizarre Almodovar offering...A provocative mix of horror and melodrama with clear echoes of Frankenstein, slickly filmed and designed. Full of the filmmaker's usual explorations of identity and gender - which, ironically, stays too frustratingly close to its stylish surface and never delivers the full emotional impact it should. Banderas is appropriately intense as the obsessive doctor..."
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