The Blood Rose (French: La Rose écorchée/ translation: The Flayed Rose) is a 1970 French horror film directed and co-written by Claude Mulot. The French title translates as "The Flayed Rose". The film involves a portraitist named Frederick Lansac (Philippe Lemaire) wanting to restore his wife Anne's (Anny Duperey) face to its former beauty after it was disfigured in an accident. Lansac tries to force a surgeon named Rohmer (Howard Vernon) to perform a transplant on her.