Movie Description
Scalpel is a 1977 American thriller film directed by John Grissmer, and starring Robert Lansing and Judith Chapman. Its plot follows a mentally-unstable plastic surgeon who transforms a young accident victim to appear as his missing daughter. It had the working title False Face.
Budd Wilkins of Slant Magazine awarded the film four out of five stars, writing, "As a slice of sordid Southern gothic nastiness, shot through with a vein of mordant black humor, Scalpel is a cut above."
