FACES OF DEATH Film cast Dacre Montgomery and Barbie Ferreira

A couple of years ago it was announced that the hardcore and haunting VHS franchise The faces of death it was about to be adapted into a feature film. Well, that project is moving forward Stranger things actor Dacre Montgomery and actress Euphoria Barbie Ferreira starred.

Legendary Pictures is producing the reimagining of the The faces of death franchise with Isa Mazzei AND Daniele Goldhaber set to write and direct. This is the same creative team behind the 2018 psychological thriller Room and the upcoming movie, Like blowing up an oil pipeline.

The new film is said to revolve around “a moderator of a YouTube-like website, whose job it is to delete offensive and violent content and who is recovering from a major trauma, who stumbles upon a group who are recreating the murders of the original film.But in history being prepared for the digital age and the age of online disinformation, the question faced is: are the murders real or fake?

The original cult film was released in 1978 and was supposed to be a mock documentary. He had “the conceit of a pathologist who explores gruesome ways to die through footage supposedly culled from around the world. In reality, most of the death scenes were staged and simulated, but that doesn’t matter, the film had the effect its producers desired: outrage, revulsion, a ban (though not in 52 countries as advertised by the makers of the film) and, of course, a money-making hit that spawned sequels and imitators.

That original movie was written and directed by John Allan Schwartz, and used multiple aliases for different crew work on film. The film spawned several sequels including Faces of Death II (1981), Faces of Death III (1985), The worst of the faces of death (1987), Faces of Death IV (1990), The faces of death v (1995) Faces of Death VI (1996).

Mazzei and Goldhaber said in a statement: “The faces of death was one of the first viral videotapes and we are so fortunate to be able to use it as a starting point for this exploration of cycles of violence and how they are perpetuated online.”

I remember watching these videos with my friends when I was a teenager, and yeah, we thought this was all real, and it disturbed the hell out of us and it scared us. I was happy to learn later in life that it was all fake.

As someone very familiar with The faces of deathI’m curious to see how this movie ends.