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Dr. Phillip, a deranged plastic surgeon, who has probably murdered his wife and who definitely has murdered his daughters boyfriend, is distressed when he learns Phillips, his father-in-law will. Rather than leave any money to the transparently awful son-in-law, he leaves his entire (very large) estate to the surgeons daughter, Heather. The only problem is, the girl has run away. He hits on the scheme of re-creating his daughters face from the ruined features of a go-go dancer, and with her cooperation bilks the estate of several disbursements, growing increasingly deranged as time goes on.
Photographed by celebrated cinematographer , who would go on to serve as DP on the likes of and , Scalpel is an exemplary slice of Southern-fried gothic. US television staple stars as a deranged surgeon in this twisty-turny psychological thriller from Blood Rage director . In Scalpel, Lansing plays Dr. Phillip Reynolds, a man whose daughter Heather () 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 sizable inheritance.
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