Photographed by celebrated cinematographer Edward Lachman, Scalpel is an exemplary slice of Southern-fried gothic. US television staple Robert Lansing stars as a deranged surgeon, Dr. Phillip Reynolds, who hatches a plan to "reconstruct" a young woman's face in the image of his missing daughter to claim her inheritance.

Scalpel
A renowned surgeon, struggling with his own demons, becomes fixated on reconstructing a young woman's disfigured face to resemble his long-lost daughter, driven by a desperate desire to relive the past.