Senior Film Writer. Faces of Death , a faux documentary that became a grizzly cult hit in the VHS era, is getting a 21st century makeover. Legendary Entertainment , currently basking in the box office glow of hit Godzilla vs.
Kong , has picked up the rights to the title with the goal of launching a new horror franchise. Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber, the team behind the psychological thriller Cam , will write and direct, respectively. John Burrud, the producer of the original movies, will also work on the new iteration. The original movie, released in , had the conceit of a pathologist exploring gruesome ways to die via footage purportedly culled from around the world. It was written and directed by John Allan Schwartz, who used multiple pseudonyms for several crew jobs on the flick.
He is trying to show you the different 'faces' of people while dying. There are faked scenes of people getting killed intermixed with footage of real accidents. There are executions by decapitation in an unknown Arab country and the electric chair. One scene shows a group of tourists in Egypt smashing a monkey's head while still alive and eating its brains. There are shots of animals eating people and Satanic orgies using dead bodies.
There is a segment that deals with an alligator that accidentally entered 'residential' waters. The local warden goes in his boat to get the alligator back into the sea when he accidentally falls over and becomes gator bait.
The film ends with newsreel footage of people jumping off buildings and major accidents. Not Rated. Did you know Edit. Trivia In a February interview with the National Public Radio program "On the Media," the movie's creator, John Alan Schwartz, said that the scene that purports to show real tourists in Egypt killing a monkey and eating its brains was really filmed in a Moroccan restaurant in the US using Schwartz's friends as actors, foam mallets, a model monkey with a prosthetic breakaway head, a trick table, and cauliflower covered in theater blood for the brains.
Goofs The narrator refers to "the country of Africa". Africa is a continent. Quotes Dr. Crazy credits Exiguous scenes within this motion picture have been reconstructed to document and further clarify their their factual origin.
Alternate versions The German version omits all footage about the holocaust and the third Reich. Connections Edited into Nudo e crudele User reviews Review. Top review. Interesting for it's time, horribly dated today.
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. 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 ,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. When LeCilaire was meeting the man from the Japanese film company, that scene leapt into his head. He said he was tired of doing films about animals and wanted to try something more ambitious.
He convinced a doctor friend to let him into a morgue, where he shot an autopsy, cutting it together with other graphic footage including seals being clubbed to death. When his prospective clients flew in from Japan, he took them into a screening room and showed them the results. LeCilaire set about finding enough graphic footage to fill a feature film. He went to news organisations and purchased a shot of a woman jumping to her death from an apartment building, as well as the aftermath of several car accidents.
He and a writer came up with a list of fatal scenarios — alligator attack, electric chair, beheading — and added other elaborately disgusting sections, such as the monkey brains scene. He hired actors, booked locations, and a professional Hollywood crew shot the film in a little over a month.
That said, many of the sections of genuine documentary footage — in particular, the grisly aftermath of a plane crash — are undeniably shocking. When Faces of Death hit Japanese cinemas in , under the title Junk, it was a massive hit.
By , there were 42m players in the US alone, creating an unprecedented demand for content. In fact, Faces of Death may have only been banned in a few countries. The film was certainly illegal in Britain, where the distribution of video nasties was a criminal offence. But in the US, Faces of Death was unstoppable. In , the Associated Press interviewed a then-unknown Quentin Tarantino , who was working as a clerk at a video store. Steven Spielberg, meanwhile, paid tribute to the film with his own monkey brains scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Some video stores refused to stock Faces of Death and legislation was introduced in several states to keep it out of the hands of minors.
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