VHS staple Faces Of Death is getting a remake that promises to be as upsetting as the original.
Faces Of Death – now there’s a blast from the gnarly past. Released in 1978, the mondo horror mockumentary managed to appall pretty much everyone but the most debased and jaded by combining staged scenes of death and mutilation with… well, real scenes of death and mutilation culled from news footage, autopsies, plane crashes, horrible accidents, and the like.
Naturally, it had a huge audience on VHS – and I don’t want you to think this was an under the counter thing; you’d see it on the shelf in a lot of video stores. It was a different time. And perhaps just as naturally, it’s now getting a remake – presumably without the actual gore – from director Daniel Goldhaber (Cam, How To Blow Up A Pipeline).
Faces Of Death Trailer
What’s the plot?
As the official synopsis tells us:
Faces of Death continues the exploration of the original film’s infamous ‘Is it real or not?’ conceit, as a woman (Barbie Ferreira) working as a content moderator for a major video platform discovers what appears to be re-enactments of murders from the original film. In an online world where nothing can be trusted, she must determine whether the violence is fiction or unfolding in real time.
Who’s in it?
- Barbie Ferreira as Margot.
- Dacre Montgomery as Athur.
- Josie Totah.
- Aaron Holliday.
- Jermaine Fowler.
- Charli XCX as Gabby.
When’s it out?
Faces Of Death will premiere at Beyond Fest Chicago on April 5 before going wide in the US on April 10. It hasn’t shown up on any Australian release schedules as yet, but Shudder have the streaming rights so we’ll definitely be getting it sooner or later.
What’s the vibe?
I’m not one to seek out shock for its own sake any more, but I like the content moderation angle on this – lord knows that’s a hellish gig. And Daniel Goldhaber is a pretty switched on filmmaker – Cam is way better than you might expect it to be from the marketing, and Pipeline is genuinely great. This could be a banger.
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