“Expertise the graphic actuality of DEATH, shut up…”

That’s the warning designed to entice adventurous viewers on the poster for Faces of Loss of life, one of the vital infamous films of all time. First launched in 1978, the film was introduced as a documentary wherein a pathologist reveals the viewer genuine footage of horrific accidents and deaths caught on digicam. In actual fact, the pathologist was an actor and lots of the scenes had been pretend. Nonetheless, the grisly idea — and a few genuinely disturbing footage — bought Faces of Loss of life banned in quite a few international locations, and made it well-known around the globe. The movie was successful, and spawned a number of sequels, which remained a fixture in video shops all through the ’80s and ’90s.

Whereas the franchise finally, properly, died, anybody with a VCR in that interval remembers the title. And now it’s being resurrected as a brand new horror movie from Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber, who beforehand made the horror thriller Cam. In keeping with The Hollywood Reporter, quite than one other mockumentary, the brand new Faces of Loss of life is a fictional movie with a narrative that incorporates the unique:

The brand new plot revolves round a feminine moderator of a YouTube-like web site, whose job is to weed out offensive and violent content material and who herself is recovering from a critical trauma, that stumbles throughout a gaggle that’s recreating the murders from the unique movie. However within the story primed for the digital age and age of on-line misinformation, the query confronted is are the murders actual or pretend?

The brand new Faces of Loss of life is being produced by Legendary Leisure, the studio behind Godzilla vs. Kong and lots of different updates of outdated film franchises. They’ve undoubtedly bought an attention-grabbing concept with this one, particularly in the best way it makes use of the unique Faces of Loss of life as a plot level in its personal story. Will the graphic actuality of dying (shut up) be as efficient a gross sales pitch on streaming because it was on the video retailer? I assume we’re going to seek out out.

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