Face/Off

John Woo was way ahead of his time. The visually interesting director was behind the lens for the action flick "Face/Off" that starred John Travolta and Nicolas Cage and featured a Hollywood-version of an identity switch thanks to a surgical procedure that was thought to be completely beyond the realm of possibility. People scoffed at the premise when the movie premiered in 1997.

In reality, surgeons in France have caught up with the Tinsel Town concept, giving a 38-year-old French woman a new visage after a grisly encounter with her labrador left her face a bloody mess of hanging flesh and visible bone. Voila, the world's first face transplant. The first photos of the woman have been published. The previous link provides the story of her recovery and includes a pic of her. You won't be able to pull your eyes away from the image.

Obviously there are bound to be some psychological issues in this woman's future and those of her teenage daughters. What must it be like to stare into a mirror and see someone other than yourself?

Creepy, Vincent Price kind of stuff happening here.