US Edition‘Faces of Death’ Review: A ’70s-Style B-Horror Movie Taps Into the Growing Appetite for Horror That’s ‘Real’
Barbie Ferreira stars as a content moderator who hunts real-looking snuff videos while a killer abducts minor celebrities for viral footage.
- On April 10, the reboot of the 1978 horror film Faces of Death debuts in theaters, directed by Daniel Goldhaber and starring Barbie Ferreira as Margot, a content moderator.
- The 1978 original Faces of Death became a cult classic by blurring lines between documentary and exploitation cinema, though many viewers believed its graphic vignettes were real when the film was largely staged scenes and newsreels.
- Dacre Montgomery plays Arthur Spevak, a serial killer who creates viral videos by restaging the original's fake scenes with real victims inside a suburban home, which he describes as artistic work.
- Margot investigates whether the disturbing videos she moderates on Kino are genuine, exposing the platform's hypocrisy of deleting health information while allowing graphic violence.
- Director Goldhaber, known for Cam and How to Blow Up a Pipeline, reimagines the franchise as commentary on 24/7 access to video evidence eroding society's social fabric.
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'Faces of Death' Will Make You Feel Like You Need a Shower — And That’s a Good Thing
Independent Film Company/ShudderWho on earth would want to reboot Faces of Death? While it’s technically a horror franchise — eight installments were released between 1978 and 1999, all of them going straight to video — the series isn’t famous for its characters, or its lore, or even its special effects. Faces of Death is simply a sicko oddity, an American version of Italian “Mondo” movies that blurred the lines between documentary and exploitat…
‘Faces of Death’ Review: A Bloodcurdling, Damning New Take on the Ultimate Cult Horror Curio
To understand Daniel Goldhaber’s reboot of John Alan Schwartz’s “Faces of Death,” you first need to understand that the original wasn’t just a movie. It was an actual urban legend. Children used to speak about “Faces of Death” in hushed tones, in corners of the playground, huddled in a circle, where we shared tales about rare and haunted media. It was here we first heard about the dead child’s ghost in “Three Men and a Baby,” and the extra whose…
Movie Review – Faces of Death (2026)
Read the original post on Flickering Myth here: Movie Review – Faces of Death (2026) Faces of Death, 2026. Directed by Daniel Goldhaber. Starring Barbie Ferreira, Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah, Charli xcx, Jermaine Fowler, Aaron Holliday, Nathaniel Woolsey, Jared Bankens, J.D. Evermore, Britton Webb, Tadasay Young, Sarah Voigt, Brandon Sutton, and Paris Peterson. SYNOPSIS: A woman, employed as a website content moderator, comes across a series o…
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