False Face[a] is a 1977 American psychological horror 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 resemble his missing daughter, all part of a scheme to inherit a property from his deceased millionaire father-in-law.

While driving late one night, Phillip and Bradley come across a stripper who has been severely beaten by a nightclub bouncer, leaving her face unrecognizable.

To Jane's dismay, Phillip takes away Bradley's medication and callously plays chopsticks on the piano as he dies.

The trio live together uneasily for several days until Heather, who realizes that her father changed Jane's face, tells them that she plans to visit the family lawyer in Atlanta to inquire about her grandfather's will.

[2] The home featured in the film is the antebellum Turner mansion in Covington, which was spared by General William Tecumseh Sherman during his Civil War March to the Sea.

[5] Don Morrison of The Minneapolis Star lauded the film as a "sleeper hit," praising Judith Chapman's performance as well as Grissmer's direction.

[1] Diane Frederick of the Indianapolis News was critical of the film's violent content, though she noted that it "offers a couple of observations about values.

"[4] A review published in the Wisconsin State Journal criticized the film for its lack of plausibility: "Writer-director John Grissmer gets points for the tricky plot but loses all of them for not knowing how to make it believable for even as second.

[7] Alternately, Budd Wilkins of Slant Magazine awarded the film a more positive 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.