Theme: Mad Surgeons

Mad Surgeons refer to doctors who have abandoned medical ethics in favour of conducting rogue and illicit operations and are in effect the surgical equivalent of Mad Scientists. Also included are doctors that are outrightly deranged and psychopathic in their behaviour.

The mad surgeon genre began with the French classic Eyes Without a Face (1959) about a doctor abducting women to remove their faces and transplant onto his facially disfigured daughter. This created a small spate of films about surgeons obsessed with facial transplants for their lovers or daughters. Other mad surgeons have engaged in enforced body modification, gender reassignment, experimental treatments and the like. Many of these also exist as Medical Horrors.