SCALPEL

US television staple Robert Lansing stars as a deranged surgeon in this twisty-turny piece of psychosexual morbidity from BLOOD RAGE director John Grissmer. It’s FACE/OFF: Southern Style!

Lansing plays Dr. Phillip Reynolds, a man whose daughter Heather (Judith Chapman, As the World Turns, General Hospital) has run away from home a year prior following the suspicious death of her boyfriend. When he happens across a young woman one night, her face beaten beyond recognition, the unhinged Reynolds sees his an opportunity to put his trusty scalpel to use - hatching a plan to "reconstruct" her face in the image of his missing daughter, and so claim her sizeable inheritance. The absolutely lurid SCALPEL is chock-full of enough witty, effective twists and southern gothic thrills to attract and disgust in equal allure!