Faces of Death Is Getting the Steelbook Collector’s Edition Treatment

Is Faces of Death a cult classic? It decidedly fits the “cult” part, but I’m not definite if this seedy “horror movie” ever graduated to classical status. In immoderate case, Faces of Death is getting a collector’s variation successful the signifier of a Blu-ray steelbook. It’s up for preorder present (see it astatine Amazon) for $39.98 and is acceptable to merchandise March 5.

Faces of Death - Collector's Edition

Faces of Death - Collector's Edition (Blu-ray Steelbook)

This collector’s variation is simply a caller merchandise of the archetypal 1978 film, directed by John Alan Schwartz. The movie is presented arsenic a documentary hosted by the fictional Dr. Francis B. Gröss, who shares videos of decease and demolition with the audience. Some of the quality and carnal deaths depicted are real, portion others are fake.

According to Wikipedia, “Approximately 60% of the movie was existent footage bought from quality stations, aesculapian researchers, witnesses of the Flight 182 crash, graphic warfare footage, deleted footage from different documentaries, and/or filmed by the existent unit successful morgues oregon connected a beach.” The remainder is fake, including 1 country successful which the manager himself plays the person of a flesh-eating cult.

Bonus Features

• New: “Many Faces of Death”
• Commentary with Director Conan Le Cilaire
• “Choice Cuts” featurette with Editor Glenn Turner
• “The Death Makers” featurette with FX creators Allan A. Apone and Douglas J. White
• Deleted Scenes
• Trailer
• Outtakes

I was a teen successful the 1990s – a simpler time. This was earlier cameras were signaling everything, and besides earlier a funny idiosyncratic could navigate to the acheronian underbelly of the net to spot gross videos. In different words, galore radical had ne'er seen anyone die.

For my friends and me, Faces of Death was a bid of VHS tapes that offered conscionable that. Each installment was a postulation of different unrelated videos of radical and/or animals gathering their doom successful a assortment of ways. The footage was often grainy, the camera enactment unstable. Even if it wasn't all real, it decidedly felt real, and it was ugly. Watching Faces of Death made you consciousness bad.

But you were besides benignant of intrigued. You decidedly watched it with friends, and it was similar a crippled of chicken: you didn’t privation to beryllium the archetypal to suffer your nervus and crook it off. The movie had a cultish, morbid, grotesque aerial to it. The selling boasted that it was "banned successful 46 countries." So adjacent though I present cognize immoderate of it is fake, it's inactive chaotic to maine to spot it getting a steelbook collector's edition.

Faces of Death is precise overmuch a merchandise of its pre-internet time. But popular civilization is cyclical, and truthful it’s nary astonishment that a 2026 remake is successful the works. It stars Barbie Ferreira and Charli XCX. We'll spot if the sordid marque tin inactive propulsion an assemblage to a movie that volition surely beryllium a overmuch antithetic beast than the original.

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