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I first watched this film when I was twelve. I had nightmares for weeks. Nightmares about dying, of course. This film left such an indelible impression in my mind that eight years later, when presented with the option to purchase this movie, I jumped at the chance. After the second viewing I no longer was frightened by the film itself. The thing that scared me was the fact that I paid 15 bucks for it. I somehow felt guilty, disgusted with myself. But I watched the whole thing. No matter how bad I felt, I just kept on watching. Granted, just because you can't turn yourself away from what you're watching, doesn't always mean that what you're watching is quality entertainment. This, by no means, is quality entertainment. This is bottom of the barrel, no doubt about that. But it's still in my collection and it's hands-down, the most borrowed film out of my library.

The movie itself is horrible, but if you look at it from a marketing standpoint it's brilliant! "Faces of Death" is in all of our collective conscience. The infamous "monkey brain scene" has been talked about in this forum ad naseum. Most everyone has seen or at least heard about this movie. It WAS a right of passage from when I was a teenager. "Banned in 46 Countries" made me HAVE to see this as a 15 year old in the late seventies. Look how the country is transfixed by "reality television" of today. This was definitely a precursor. The makers of this movie were not concerned about how the movie looked artistically, they wanted to get your attention, they wanted, no, dared you to watch. I'm sure the people that made this are all retired now and living on private islands with all the money they've made off the FOD series. As well they should! The curiosity of people and the word-of-mouth strategy used worked perfectly for them all over the world (This was well before the internet world we live in today). Masters of marketing they all are. Movie makers today only wish they can get this sort of buzz and interest in a movie. And to all of you that say that the people who watch this are sick and depraved, you know what? They got you too! Your curiosity made you look and watch. That's what the makers of this film wanted all along and you took the bait. It is people's curiosity that got them watching, not their morales. BRILLIANT!

Half of this was sickening reality. The other half was a pathetic sham.

This is worth a look for the freak value alone.

The autopsy footage was gut-churning. This was one of the few real spots. Seeing real faces of the dead wasn't easy. The fact that said faces weren't deformed in any real way made it all the more chilling. The lady's suicide was also tough to watch.

The faked footage (executions, croc attack) almost subverted the intention of the film. Dealing with death. If they wanted to show executions, show something that can be verified.

The bear attack was probably influenced by the fake lion attack in 'Great Hunting.' And the middle eastern restaurant (with a white staff) serving the fresh monkey for killing was ripped off of 'Man From Deep River.' The scene with the grieving father trying to raise his dead son & wife through a medium may have been hard to watch for all the wrong reasons.

Most people see this...just to say they've seen it.

Real open-heart surgery footage opens this bogus mockumentary, about Dr. Francis B. Gross' journey, which took him "around the world in search of an understanding of death. Many years ago I was plagued with a recurring dream....." Segue that into a mock dream sequence, then into a fairly interesting bit about the mummies of Guanajuato, Mexico; and the infamous monkey brain-eating sequence, which was later reused ad nauseam. As effectively gruesome and simultaneously goofball as this scene is, multiple camera angels reveal it to be staged.

Dog-fighting follows (ugh) As an animal lover, I found this sequence to be more revolting than the open heart surgery.

Our host, narrator Dr. Francis B. Gross, keeps using the word "my", when he says "my travels" etc., but curiously, his presence is only in voice-over narration, he is never shown in any of the footage of, for example, the Maasai people in the Serengeti Plain. While the Maasai may be real, the Iboro (sp?) in the Amazon appear to be completely bogus, as I can find no mention of any tribe with that name. Complete with multiple camera angles and edits, it looks more like a 1970s jungle/ exploitation flick than authentic jungle footage, and it looks more like New Guinea, than the Amazon.

The alligator attack scene, featuring a cameo appearance by Mr. Chia Pet hair from "channel 9 news", balding, and with the (thankfully rare) male cameltoe, during the alligator attack, was obviously staged. No other identification is given as far as, let's say, "Channel 9 News in Miami" or a station id, something like "WXXX Channel 9 News". It doesn't display the interviewer's name or the names of the people he's interviewing, and they keep editing away from the actual gator attack. I counted at least 23 cuts in that 45 seconds long scene, which was most impressive, considering there was only one cameraman from channel 9 on scene.

We are introduced to assassin Francois Jordan, whose voice is distorted, and he is wearing a black mask over his head and face. Why did they bother to distort this alleged assassin's voice and face if they tell us his name is Francois Jordan?

Gross mentions Gary Mark Gilmore's Utah execution in 1977 (which was real) but he claims the gas chamber was introduced in California in 1938. Wrong. It was introduced in Nevada in 1924. Larry DeSilva's faked execution follows, lamely.

The bear attack was more funny than frightening, because it was so badly staged and obviously faked: again, multiple quick cuts and camera angles could not have been achieved

Nature runs amok in Wilkes-Barre, PA, in 1972; tornadoes, volcanoes, wildfires, etc. segues into pompous, incredibly cheesy singing about conservation, with apparently the filmmakers' girlfriend in a green top and white shorts receiving quite a lot of screen time, as a protester allegedly sets himself on fire to protest something or other.

Stunt driver's accident was comically bad. The clapperboard reads "Hell Raisin'", which should be an indication as to how real the footage is. (The rest of the information on the clapperboard is illegible) A real collision of 727 with small aircraft over San Diego lends a slight bit of credibility to otherwise mostly bogus claims of authenticity.

The portions of the movie dealing with real slaughterhouses, cryogenic freezing and rioting, again, are fairly graphic, but again they're done in a documentary type of way, and have more story to go with the gore, unlike some of this film's later ripoffs.

There is more of a story to go along with the gore and shocks here. Granted, it doesn't make much sense and is rarely believable, but that's part of the fun. Exploitive, nonsensical fun, which held my attention from start to finish, as I watched this on video as a teenager many times.

This isn't for those with a weak stomach, but watch it in the same frame of mind you would watch "National Geographic" on safari in Africa or something like that and it can be fun for fans of gore, and unintentionally funny cinema. (Note to the producers: in one scene the narrator refers to 'the country of Africa' - Africa is a continent, not a country)

It's really ironic that of all the "shockumentaries" that have turned up on video in recent years the "Faces of Death" series has attracted the most attention (positive and negative), since so much of its "shocking" footage is blatantly phoney. Those with an interest in authentic death and atrocity footage would do better to check out the "Death Scenes" series (3 volumes), "Inhumanities 2" or the British documentary "Executions". (An editorial aside here, since I'm frequently asked why I watch such material: While I wouldn't say that such films are fun or enjoyable to watch, I make myself watch them occasionally to remind myself not to take the best things in life - or life itself, for that matter - for granted.)

Before I get responses beginning with "you sick bugger", let me explain that this set of movies is the jewel of my collection strictly for it's cult status. I first saw FOD #1 when I was about 12yrs old in the extreme early 80's. The caption "Banned in 46 countries!" made this a compulsory rental for twisted little minds. During the first viewing however, I can remember distinguishing between the "real" and "fake" clips and thinking that the blood in "Dawn of the Dead" was far more realistic. Jump ahead about 20 yrs. I purchased the 6 video collection (with additional "Executions" video thrown in for good measure) in the late 90's. For those who have only seen clips or stopped after #1, the rest of the videos are pretty much the same (#2 is a lot of war atrocities, #3 has more nature/animal attacks, #4 should be called "Faces of Stupidity" due in part to the dumb ways people are getting killed, and #'s 5 & 6 are a best of compilation....the "real" 5 and 6 are German and Japanese releases that are fairly hard to get a hold of and rather expensive). I watched all of these videos, knowing that the majority of the clips are staged with bad SPFX and the real clips look as though they are unedited news footage, but It's "schlockiness" is mildly entertaining (Dr. Francis B. Gross hosting). The "Executions" tape I received as well however I have been unable to make it through in the past 6 years(everything on there is real and disturbing). I found that in my teens, this series was amateurish and only slightly interesting, but in my mid thirties it is much harder to watch and brings up morality questions that I didn't have when I a kid. The series definitely isn't for the faint of heart, but credit must be given for an unapologetic exploration (albeit 90% phony) of often taboo subjects.

I can't remember a time when I've felt so afraid to die!! This movie (the first of a series) shows you what you've always been frightened to see. You're staring into the faces of the condemned. You're witnessing the last moments that others will ever spend on this planet. You're seeing the horror, terror, and insane fear that strikes without warning as you are about to die.

Yet, after watching, there is a strange feeling. I walked around for two days unable to erase the images from my mind. I saw this film by accident (my brother and a friend were watching it, I walked in thinking it was "Children of the Corn" and somehow stayed glued to the couch until the last credits rolled).

I never felt nauseous. The only emotion I had was one that I had never TRULY felt before...empathy. I felt sickened for the families of the people who I was watching. I felt like crying because there was nothing I could do. It was just a movie. What I was watching had been done years before. For those people whose faces appeared on the screen, peace had finally come. But me...I would never be the same again.

I saw that movie about ten years ago. To this day, I still see some of the scenes in my mind, particularly when I hear the evening news or see a car accident. For anyone considering renting it, you will be forever changed after watching. It is really quite unlike anything you will ever see.

Ah yes, Faces of Death, that infamous movie that boasts how it was banned in "46 Countries". That one movie that kids of a young age at around the time it came out (late 70's) would whisper to each other about, how it was that movie "you weren't allowed to see." My, how times have changed huh? For starters, as reviewers before me have stated, yes, most, if not all, of the footage in this movie was faked (some of it rather badly too). However, on the other hand, one also has to keep in mind that way back in 1978,79,80, the news of it being faked was not known, so people were being treated too, what they thought, was a controversial, pull no punches look at death. It was a fascinating and original concept/idea/movie at the time of it's inception, but sadly, FOD, as well as it's sequels, just looks terribly dated and lame by 2005 standards.

While not the most vile form of Mondo out there, Faces of Death still packs a punch. Opening with pitt bull fights, this film shocked me. The vile sick nature of these films should ONLY be viewed by those with strong stomachs. Although 85% fake, it still packs a punch that many earlier mondo's did not. Although the first is not the best of the series, it does come close. I made the mistake of taking this film to a friends house, only to be called 'sick and gross' but that happens. The film has no plot and frankly, Dr. Gross is a sick human. I dont know which was scarier, him or one of the stiffs.

All over I give this film a 6/10. While not the best mondo, its certainly worth checking out.

On a minor note, theres this part where the cut this horse's throat and let him bleed to death. I dont know if this is real but it sure as heck freaked me out. I just wanted to throw that out there and say again if you have a weak stomach or heart, do NOT watch the film. You wont like it. But if your in the mood for a good old mondo, then check it out.

It took me about a month after buying this video for me to finally get the urge to watch it. When I finally did, I was shocked beyond all belief. Every possible way to die that you could think of, is shown in this film. I will not go through all of the numerous death sequences, but it was very bloody, graphic and overall sick. I really do not know what the purpose of this film was, because all the narrator does is talk about how short and wasteful life is, and then just takes it back, saying that life should be lived to the fullest and then talks about how useless life is again.

The most disturbing sequence of the video is probably the electrocution. There is also brief nudity during a cult ritual scene. But, if you are looking for snuff, then this is probably the best place to start. This film would best be called 'legal snuff'. Banned in 46 countries, but only in America could we see something so atrocious! FACES OF DEATH: 3/5.

Undoubtedly one of the worst movies of all time. And how many sequels were there? With the possible exception of 3, the live action sequences were staged. Alt.folklore.urban has decimated this movie. When mixed in w/ some shots of real animal slaughter, cadavers, and other dead things, I can only imagine a 14-16 yr old could enjoy and believe such tripe. As for entertainment value? Why not get a stick and poke at road kill for 88 min. If you liked that movie see Surf Nazis Must Die, The Leprechaun, or The Blade Master.

Words cannot describe how God awful this piece of crap is! In a nutshell, it's an hour and a half of people and animals getting killed on camera. What's more, it's appallingly fake and really disgusting. For what purpose? To shock people, I guess. Catching a death on camera is bad enough, but going through the extraneous effort of faking it! It's so damn stupid! It was somewhat entertaining at first, and I found myself laughing at the infamous "monkey brain" scene. As it went on though, it got repetitive and boring. What really turned me off was the annoying narrator, who continuously brought into view how unique and unusual the death we just witnessed was. That gets old, as does the rest of the film. It's amazing that people would actually take part in the making of this thing. I'll bet their careers are in the toilet by now. My advice to the filmmakers: you should have dropped the project while you still could. What scares me more than anything is that there are a number of people who really like the "Faces of Death" series. People actually buy it! I think one reviewer at "Amazon.com" went as far as to call it "brilliant"! If "Faces of Death" displays a niche of brilliance, it shows us how low our society has gotten, that human beings will actually waste their time and their good, hard-earned money on something like this. The whole series should be banned and completely destroyed, so that it cannot brainwash innocent young minds. Of all the bad movies that have come and gone over the years, this one ranks as the World Champion! Don't even rent it to see how bad it is. You won't get any enjoyment out of it, and you will always regret it.

I love gore. I am for anti-censorship. But FOR GOD'S SAKE SOMETHINGS ARE TOO MUCH. The first movie was interesting once... ONCE. The others may be first rate entertainment for Redneak teens and sick demented freaks, but for people who have socially redeeming values in they're lives should steer clear. It's cheap, and it's sick. To watch 90 (Gorgon videos lie about the run time as well) minutes of people squashing monkeys and eating them, along with slaughter house footage, mixed with executions, the torchuring and killing of animals, reinactments of murders (poorly done), and finally tossed in with a sex change operation seems sad, and very disturbing. To think people buy these videos, and watch them over again is enough to make your head spin. The implications of these movies are sevear. Not only has it spun whole cults of macabre and extreme violence, but has actually lead to murder. In New England, some years back, a troubled teen bought and watched these tapes over and over. He suffered nothing more then mild depression due to a divorce and a probably anti-social life. In the end, he shot, and gutted his best friend in his back yard in a Faces of Death fashion. Law enforcement officials and Phycologists alike link the murder to the videos. AVOID AT ALL COASTS! You will sleep easier if you never subject yourself to them.

I like to think that I've seen my share of versatile horror, cult and exploitation films by now (you're always welcome to browse through the user comments written under this ID) and I shamelessly admit that I'm very pro-violence in cinema! But I do think that you at least have to draw a line between reality and fiction. Even though most of the footage featuring in "Faces of Death" is proved to be fake, it still attempts to exploit the wrong type of message. The tagline just screams out "Banned in 46 countries" and the spoken intro tries to raise your curiosity even more. And what for? Only to make you feel like a voyeur when being exposed to a seemly endless series of human and animal death-struggles and cadavers. I wonder what exactly were the reasons for making this film…Nothing but easy money and cashing in on the popular trend of making the most repulsive movie possible, of course! Because, after all, "Faces of Death" only states the obvious: every living creature on this planet eventually dies! And no matter how pitiful it is to see a cow getting slaughtered for its meat or a seal for its fur, these are just ancient rites and explicitly showing it to horror fanatics definitely won't change a thing! It's even more saddening that this film also contains footage of wildlife rituals! Nature simply goes by the law of survival of the fittest and if you start to consider piranhas eating a snake as horror, you could also state that National Geographic is a horror channel! I despise this film and all its sequels for what it's trying to do. Death is a part of life and performing a detailed study on it is pretty uncalled for. The fact that Faces of Death is clumsy edited and meaningless makes it bad cinema. The fact that it's mostly phony footage while believed to be authentic just makes it pathetic.

I remember finding a copy of this when I was 11 and being so excited I hopped up and down until my head hurt. Why? I really don't know. Maybe it's because that glandular disorder the doctors keep yapping about. Or maybe, just maybe, it's because so few of the things that are legally verboten to a kid of a eleven actually interest a kid of eleven . I cared not for smokes or beer, and since my dad's magic cable box provided me with all of the softcore porn that I could handle, death videos were the only cool things that were completely out of reach. I was attracted to shiniest of the forbidden fruits.

This was before you had so many choices in death videos, bear in mind. The special interest section at Dollar Video has at least twenty of them nowadays, ranging from the rather benign "Traces of Death" to the surprisingly gruesome "Banned from Television." In 1992 it was either "Faces of Death" or "Mondo Cane," so this was the FIRST time that I had ever seen anything like this. I called over a friend and we popped in the tape.

Total disappointment.

It was so friggin staged that even at such a young age and even without knowing a damn thing about death videos I could tell that most of it was fake. Horribly produced fake newscasts introduced poorly acted scenes, dulling whatever effect the rare shots of actual cadavers might have had.

I do find appeal in intense gore and watching horrific videos, even to this day, as I know a surprising amount of other people do. I don't consider this a perversion since I gain no recognizable gratification from doing it, but I am well aware it is still a very socially unacceptable thing to do. But unlike most of my other aberrant habits (and trust me, there are many), I've never bothered to come up with a justification for my gore fascination: I get nothing out of it, it serves no purpose, and it's creepy. So why do I do it? Raw stimulation, I think. That's my best guess, and since a more complicated explanation would most likely be the convoluted result of a tired mind trying to justify himself to himself (rather than to those he is explaining himself to), I will leave it at those two simple words. Raw stimulation. Seeing things that you have never seen before and so feeling things that you've never quite felt before. Bud Dwyer's fountain flowing fast like a faucet. Vic Morrow's helicopter blades. Beheadings. Immolation. Things you never see on TV making you think thoughts you've never thought before without having to read or interpret. Nothing gets you thinking like death, and nothing gives you death better than moving pictures.

And that's exactly why "Faces of Death" sucks. It takes horror and waters it down. It's like opium diluted with talcum powder. When I want a quick fix, I want the hard stuff. Don't insult an addict, that's how you get cut.

The most disgusting film of all time. The whole "Faces of Death" series should be forbidden and destroyed.

Dr. Francis B. Gross (whom I bet lost his certifications after making this movie), collects a series of supposed both real and staged clips of people dying gruesome deaths for the benefit of viewers. Why? Hell, why not? Let's all be necrophiliacs and creeps and stare at people getting killed!

There's a difference between knowing something is a staged, fictional movie where no one gets hurt, and having the kind of sick mind required to enjoy what may very possibly be real clips of murders, suicides, graphic autopsies, accidents and animal cruelty. While many might argue with me, I think this was a pathetic, immoral and sleazy way to get money from an audience. Not only that but there are jokes throughout this morbid collection of deaths, and somehow it spawned a second and third in the series! Disgusting! No wonder it was banned and highly illegal to view in many countries!

This isn't a movie. Even the most graphic and gory horror films are fictional, but with this one, it's using the miseries and misfortunes of people like us to get a quick buck or so from every viewer. I would avoid this garbage at all costs, and I'm surprised it's still even sold anywhere. I thought it was a horror movie when I found it on youtube, and by the time I saw the monkey scene I already had this review planning in my mind.

I have been hearing about this movie since I was eight years old, but I never had the opportunity to see it until recently. Needless to say, I was deeply disappointed. The dead bodies neither repusled nor shocked me. The blood-and-guts orgy led by Frank Zappa's body double made me laugh. Dr. Frances B. Gröss's heavy-handed moralism was both unwelcome and unnecessary. For example, he spoke at great length about the events of the 1939-1945 war and said that if they were ever repeated, "we all deserve a life in Hell." That's cute, Dr. Gröss. Really, the only things in this movie that disturbed me were the scenes of animal killing and Michael Carr's droning narration. Aesthetically, though, this movie is better than "Traces Of Death 3," a rip-off series that looks as thought it were recorded on a BETA tape, flushed down a toilet, hit with a hammer, and put on VHS. "Faces Of Death" still has a "film" quality.

Eh, what can you do with a film like this? I didn't like it, yet between seeing this or a Joel Schumacher "Batman" movie, I'd probably watch this. (I hate those Schumacher "Batman" movies.)

I saw this at the impressionable young age of 12. Admittedly, I was WAY too young to see this at the time, but even though I was still at the point where horror films still unnerved me, this film didn't phase me at all. Who knows? Maybe my BS sensor was pretty well-tuned to this one. From a logic standpoint, some of it is pretty laughable, and for a "serious" film, it's pretty darn cheerful at times in its depictions of dismemberment and death. So what is "real" in this film? Is any of it real? The thing that probably has the most validity are the animal deaths. While the acts may still make people squeamish, and as sick as it sounds, people are generally more able to (I hate using this word) accept an animal killing over a person. Ever live on a farm? Well, neither have I, but I know this kind of thing happens.

This is purely low-brow "art" at its most basic. It's disgusting, sophmoric, laughable and outright silly at times. The people who put these films together probably had a blast doing so, and probably enjoyed the fact that they would repulse people the world over with this little nugget. I didn't take "Faces of Death" seriously then, I don't take it seriously now. It's made for shock value, and that's what it achieves. Do I think this is a great film? No. Would I have this in my video collection? Probably not. But it is a curiosity piece, I'll give it that. I probably wouldn't watch one after eating dinner, either.

This film shocked me with its depictions of death. Granted that some of the death scenes are probably fake, it still left me feeling sick to my stomach. But no matter how graphic it was my dark sense of curiosity kept me watching.

This is one of the few Video Nasties that fully deserved its place on the final DPP list. As an individual who ideologically opposes censorship, I found myself surprisingly shocked by the BBFC's decision to pass this (albeit with minor cuts) for DVD, and even today it is one of the few Video Nasties that I cannot watch without needing to turn it off. While I agree that adults should have the right to view whatever they wish (as long as the work in question does not break the law), I do find myself wondering what kind of person enjoys watching this sort of material. (Even as I write I cannot help but shake my head at my own hypocrisy...) This grisly, macabre compilation of both real-life and faked death footage belongs to a subgenre of the documentary film known as 'mondo', initiated in 1966 by the Italian exploitation film Mondo Cane (although the recording of actual human death goes right back to the dawn of cinema). Along with the video Executions, Faces of Death represents the most extreme and disgusting end of this subgenre (that I'm aware of at any rate), and presents a string of death-themed scenes including suicide, accidents and execution. The fact that some scenes (most famously a death row electrocution and the eating of 'live' monkey brains) are faked does little to reduce the impact of this film, which from start to finish reeks of both death and exploitation. What surprises me is not so much that Faces of Death presents itself as a serious documentary (complete with a bogus doctor narrating in serious tones), but that the BBFC's regulations allow for the use of real-life death footage in this clearly exploitative context. And yet they ban video documentaries such as Hooligans and Terrorists, Sickos and Other Wackos for having no discernible educational context. At least such material has the courage (stupidity?) to present itself for what it is: sick morons stringing together repugnant images for the entertainment of other sick morons. Indeed, such a distinction marks hard-core pornography and the Lovers' Guide style of 'sex education' videos that emerged during the late 1980s, when 'documentarians' realised they could make '18' rated sex tapes as long as the action was interspersed by some 'expert' providing an academic commentary.

Unsurprisingly, Faces of Death does not illuminate the subject of its title; rather than revealing historical, cultural and spiritual truths about mortality, it merely serves to emphasise the ugly faces of humanity.

Film: * (out of 5) Nastiness: ***** (out of 5)

Faces of Death is a curious viewing experience. The variety of emotions it triggers is unusual. From pure revulsion to unbridled laughter, this film certainly covers a lot of bases. Where the real material is genuinely disturbing, the faked stuff is often so poorly done it makes for unintentional comedy. At the very least, Faces of Death can certainly not be accused of being boring.

The credit sequence kicks in with scenes from open heart surgery and an autopsy. It's pretty grim stuff quite frankly and not exactly the kind of material you want to digest immediately after dinner. The early parts of FOD in general are more horrific; in particular, the slaughterhouse sequence. It's pure horror. If there is any positive legacy from this documentary then it must surely be that it's made a few more people aware of the terrible route some animals are forced to take on the way to our dinner plates. The treatment of the animals in this environment was nothing short of barbaric and very difficult to watch. After this opening bombardment I was actively hoping for some of the famed fake material and thankfully I didn't have long to wait. The political assassination and alligator attack were spliced into the flow, and both were incredibly unconvincing and silly but also a relief from the unremitting heaviness of the preceding material. Some view the fake material in FOD as a weakness, a reason to disparage it. I, on the other hand, thought it was a welcome change of tone and a bit of unexpected comedy relief. The combination of the ultra-grim with fake schlock was ultimately what made it palatable for me.

It has to be said though, that there is an undeniably fascinating aspect to much of the real atrocities on display. It is very exploitative but you do see things that you normally would never see, or perhaps wish to see. The footage of the aftermath of the aircraft crash was haunting and is something I will not forget; the autopsy scenes are grimly fascinating; the Liberian execution is a no-holds-barred presentation of capital punishment. While the scenes of animal cruelty do serve a purpose in that they confront the viewer with some very cruel practices and are legitimate in the sense that they expose some very terrible things that man does to other creatures on this planet; in addition to the aforementioned slaughterhouse scene, there is the extremely unpleasant footage of the seal cull. While stuff like this has been selected with exploitative purposes in mind it does make the viewer think about wider issues, which is certainly unexpected. Some of the most famous sequences turn out to be fake however, for example the monkey meal and the electric chair scene. Although these, along with the death cult section, are all pretty graphic none-the-less and operate successfully as tasteless exploitation fodder.

Overall, I found Faces of Death to be compelling. I was genuinely sickened in places, disturbed in others, fascinated at times and even enlightened here and there. I also was amused too by the more ridiculous fakery. It's a hell of a combination that some people will regard in highly dubious taste. Some of it SHOULD shock you and some parts of it will stay with you long after. It's not a film to sit down with the family after a good meal. But this shockumentary/mockumentary is certainly something to behold.

Now I am against censorship, but not at all costs. I like gore movies and sick and perverted stuff in movies. Although a lot of what is in Faces of Death is faked, but there are real autopsy footage and animal slaughter, footage of the aftermath of a plane crash, and a scene of a suicide which I believe is real, which has no place in the movies.

I have seen a lot of horror movies, sick stuff from all over the world and that's fine, it's the movies (make believe). But why anyone would watch this to be entertained is beyond belief.

Why did I watch it you ask? Well I have an obsession with finding and watching banned MOVIES (Make believe) and since this was banned by the BBFC who also banned everything from The Beyond to Zombie flesh eaters. Naturally I was Curious.

Movies should Entertain or teach or enlighten, not satisfy some sick perverted lust to see dead people being cut open. Or body parts lying around after a plane crash, Yes things like this do happen, but this movie has no artistic redeeming quality whatsoever.

If you are a fan of horror movies or extreme cinema, then don't watch this, you might find mildly entraining the faked stuff like the executions and the bear attack. But the real stuff will just repulse.

If the director is to believed, he received death treats, and I am not surprised. I wonder what he would think about showing his wife or mother's autopsy in faces of death 7