Faces of Death (1978)
Genre: Horror / Mockumentary
Duration: 105 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: John Alan Schwartz
Stars: Michael Carr, Samuel Berkowitz and Thomas Noguchi
IMDb score:
4,3 (9.811)
Releasedate: 10 November 1978
Faces of Death plot
"Experience the graphic reality of Death, close-up..."
In this first documentary in a series of six, Dr. Francis B. Gröss presents the viewer with a collection of horrific death scenes, ranging from TV material to self-recorded footage. However, these films all have the same premise; showing death in the most gruesome way.
Actors and actresses
Dr. Francis B. Gröss
Self - Cryogenics patient
Self - suicide victim shown jumping out of a window
Leader of Flesh Eating Cult (uncredited)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Self
Reviews & comments
sinterklaas
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- 11837 messages
- 3328 votes
I finally watched this one too. I've heard all sorts of things about this since I was 10. And now it was finally time to see it again and have part 1 and 2 but just a little bit of cheese. Of course I can understand why everyone thinks this is a shitty documentary because it's just too flat, sadistic and shocking. I'm not a Psycho but I found Faces of Death quite fascinating. I wouldn't mention all the death scenes because otherwise I'll be 250 paragraphs further. And every gruesome death has a starting point: Culture, Execution, Accidents, Suicide, Stupidity, Biological examination of corpses and so on. What I did remember is for example: that policeman who gets mauled by a crocodile, that monkey, that electric chair, that hippie gang that cut open a corpse and eat the flesh out, smear their own with blood and then have an orgy. I sometimes doubt what was fake and real. Some things are clearly real, but some are also fake and staged. Eg that shootout at that house, those pistols made very funny captions as if they were fairground weapons.
Furthermore, I also think that the one Michael Carr who presents it all is just crazy and enjoys it.
And of course all this is no longer so shocking because you now see things like this every day in the newspaper, news or on the internet. But it still interested me. Was of course as amateurish as hell, but I did watch the entire documentary attentively. On to the next parts.
3.0*
PS: Was FoD also known in the Netherlands around 1978?
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Film Pegasus (moderator films)
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- 31484 messages
- 5623 votes
Faces of death, as often seen here at a young age. Rented from the video store. And in the end there was nothing to it. If you would see the film again now, you would notice that this is actually nothing, just a lot of bad films in succession with only the intention to provoke, nothing more. Most of it is still put together itself, which makes the film completely pathetic.
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Theunissen
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That was by far the saddest film in the Faces of Death series. It had more to do with an animal slaughter than anything else. And I just can't handle that right now. Some things were of course fake like with that food of the monkey (didn't look appetizing) but other scenes were real (slaughter of sheep among others). No, I can have quite a lot, but if a film is mainly about killing or torturing animals, I don't want much of it. So this movie was clearly not for me.
So now I'm going to continue burning ants with my magnifying glass 
I used to do something like that (it was quite pathetic actually) and it also smelled pretty bad.
Translated from Dutch · View originalPre- and sequels
Faces of Death: Fact or Fiction?
1999
Faces of Death IV
1990
Faces of Death III
1985
Faces of Death II
1981
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