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Title: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: old-school-lifter on June 26, 2019, 04:22:01 PM
Ive heard of this cult movie that was released sometime in the early to mid 80's, which had real footage of people being killed in gruesome ways ie mauled to death by a lion, drownings, car crashes

never saw it because it was banned apparently- too hardcore/extreme

anyone verify its existence/seen it?
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: michael arvilla on June 26, 2019, 04:25:56 PM
Yes it was pretty gruesome (saw it as a kid had all kinds of real death filmed ... things like people cracking a live monkeys head open and eating the brains to a sky diver who’s friends filmed him landing into an alligator pit and they tore him to pieces as he screamed ... was pretty disturbing stufff!)
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: old-school-lifter on June 26, 2019, 04:27:01 PM
hey thanks for the info Mike

just checked IMDB

apparently most of it is fake

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077533/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Matt on June 26, 2019, 04:27:58 PM
R. Budd Dwyer.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Fortress on June 26, 2019, 04:36:40 PM
This flick series was an urban myth in my eighties existence.

It was always, Such-and-such saw it and says it’s totally real!

From what I now understand, the movie’s feature some genuine deaths ... but a tonne of fake stuff.

Correct me if I’m wrong.

Either way, I have zero interest to view such material. Several years ago I gave in to curiosity and clicked a link to a scene in which two sad buggers had their noggins removed from their bodies. One with a chainsaw and the other with a knife.

I felt rattled and a serious soul suppression for a day or two.

A horror the likes of which only serves to permanently damage one’s spirit.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: SF1900 on June 26, 2019, 04:49:15 PM
It was rather lame.

Compared to the stuff you can view on YouTube and Live Leak, Faces of Death is pretty tame.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: BB on June 26, 2019, 05:15:27 PM
It's fake scenes, mixed with b roll and outtakes from news stories, foreign news sources, old educational films, etc..... that could be bought cheap. Most of the "real" 80's gore films are all like that.

Here's I and II -

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Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: AbrahamG on June 26, 2019, 05:52:19 PM
It was rather lame.

Compared to the stuff you can view on YouTube and Live Leak, Faces of Death is pretty tame.

I remember as a kid when my parents went out of town and my uncle looked after us that he let me rent it from the local video store.  It was disappointing even then to an 11 year old. 
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: tres_taco_combo on June 26, 2019, 05:59:43 PM
I was born in 1983 and had an older brother - so the late 1980s and early 1990s you were special if you happened to view one

same with playboy magazines. hard to come by. usually someone's dad had them - hidden away in the basement
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: stuntmovie on June 26, 2019, 06:08:03 PM
I never head of that movie but the one movie that really fooked me up was the original movie with Vincent Price called "THE FLY" in which the very last scene showed the head of Vincent Price on the body of a fly ... caught in a spider's web ... while the spider slowly moved towrds him .... as he 'squeeked' in somewhat of a flie's voice, "Help me! Help me!"

And then it Cut to Black!



Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: tres_taco_combo on June 26, 2019, 06:10:10 PM
Hostel fucked me up since that shit is real. eastern europe is creepy as fuck -
freddy cougar movies fucked me up - i was like 8 watching those things
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Irongrip400 on June 26, 2019, 06:22:56 PM
I remember as a kid when my parents went out of town and my uncle looked after us that he let me rent it from the local video store.  It was disappointing even then to an 11 year old. 

Similar story. My buddies mom let us rent it in middle school. We rented two of those movies (produced by Francis B Gross  ::)) and one called “The Many Faces Of Death” which was mostly foreign news stuff. I remember a dude who’s head was run over by a bus in India I think. Either way, I think most of it was fake, but like Arvilla said, I do remember the monkey brain thing.

Could have done without watching, much like the dude getting his head cut off by terrorists n the early 2000’s. Really wished I hadn’t watched that.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Board_SHERIF on June 26, 2019, 06:26:59 PM
Similar story. My buddies mom let us rent it in middle school. We rented two of those movies (produced by Francis B Gross  ::)) and one called “The Many Faces Of Death” which was mostly foreign news stuff. I remember a dude who’s head was run over by a bus in India I think. Either way, I think most of it was fake, but like Arvilla said, I do remember the monkey brain thing.

Could have done without watching, much like the dude getting his head cut off by terrorists n the early 2000’s. Really wished I hadn’t watched that.

saw that to, but how could the monkey brain thing be faked ? that was real.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: stuntmovie on June 26, 2019, 06:27:17 PM
TRES, HOSTEL!! .... That was one hell of a sick movie but I was old (ancient) enough to appreciate what the writer, director, cast, and crew intended to accomplish and was successful in getting it on screen as the screen-writer intended .... which is almost impossible to accomplish to get an audiance to shit in their knickers!

Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: BB on June 26, 2019, 06:44:46 PM
saw that to, but how could the monkey brain thing be faked ? that was real.

They explain how it was faked here -

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One of the US cable networks (AMC) had a show on the film a few years ago, where they explained how many scenes were done. The famous electric chair scene is just a guy with Alka Seltzer and toothpaste in his mouth too.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Board_SHERIF on June 26, 2019, 06:53:33 PM
They explain how it was faked here -

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One of the US cable networks (AMC) had a show on the film a few years ago, where they explained how many scenes were done. The famous electric chair scene is just a guy with Alka Seltzer and toothpaste in his mouth too.

thank god it was fake..humans suck..
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Campeon Del Mundo on June 26, 2019, 07:11:37 PM
i saw this back in 1986.   I rented it from a video store.  I had to ask for the video from the clerk.  He
then allowed me to rent it.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Purge_WTF on June 26, 2019, 07:34:17 PM
 Here's the creator with his wife:

 


 I bought his autobiography off of Amazon a few years ago. When he and his brother James - a.k.a. "Dr. Louis Flellis," the host of the fourth film - would misbehave as kids, their father would lock them in an old coffin he kept in the attic. It was inevitable.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Coach is Back! on June 26, 2019, 07:36:40 PM
Ive heard of this cult movie that was released sometime in the early to mid 80's, which had real footage of people being killed in gruesome ways ie mauled to death by a lion, drownings, car crashes

never saw it because it was banned apparently- too hardcore/extreme

anyone verify its existence/seen it?

Saw it when I was a kid. Very disturbing
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: AbrahamG on June 26, 2019, 07:46:43 PM
One of the videos showed a guy being quartered.  That was rough.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: SOMEPARTS on June 26, 2019, 08:41:07 PM
Buddy and I built a half pipe for skateboarding...we were 15 and watched faces of death on a little VCR/TV combo with a couple girls from the neighborhood....camped out on sleeping bags on the half pipe. I remember the monkey scene. Used to ride bikes for miles to get to this little video store to rent slasher films. Late 80s just before internet ruined everything, haha.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Kwon on June 26, 2019, 10:44:14 PM
Hostel fucked me up since that shit is real. eastern europe is creepy as fuck -
freddy cougar movies fucked me up - i was like 8 watching those things

Freddy Cougar....



Already at a tender age of 8, Taco found his calling to chase cougars ( pellets or no pellets ), and we have Freddie to thank for that.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Skeletor on June 26, 2019, 10:50:39 PM

Freddy Cougar....



Already at a tender age of 8, Taco found his calling to chase cougars ( pellets or no pellets ), and we have Freddie to thank for that.


Freddy Cougar!

(https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/a8604fa8-67f5-40a0-b311-97863ab7d5c9/d6rjcy7-325c8070-45be-4ca2-904d-fa1e123bbd32.jpg/v1/fill/w_946,h_845,q_70,strp/freddy_cougar_by_brandtk_d6rjcy7-pre.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9OTE1IiwicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvYTg2MDRmYTgtNjdmNS00MGEwLWIzMTEtOTc4NjNhYjdkNWM5XC9kNnJqY3k3LTMyNWM4MDcwLTQ1YmUtNGNhMi05MDRkLWZhMWUxMjNiYmQzMi5qcGciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9MTAyNCJ9XV0sImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl19.uqTW7ueIiFXmzba3XqwEz-7WR1CiapP5ax8RQiS2-pQ)
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: _bruce_ on June 27, 2019, 12:28:41 AM
It's fake scenes, mixed with b roll and outtakes from news stories, foreign news sources, old educational films, etc..... that could be bought cheap. Most of the "real" 80's gore films are all like that.

Here's I and II -

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x2
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: The Italian Lifter on June 27, 2019, 02:21:17 AM
Fake or not I really hate this shit.
And really can't understand why people are so attracted by gore and cruelty, even on WhatsApp chat people are exchanging snuff shit.
Really makes you understand human nature unfortunately
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Humble Narcissist on June 27, 2019, 02:54:17 AM
Heard about how gruesome it was as a kid but didn't see it.  Years later saw it on Youtube and it was o.k. but not as bad as I thought it would be.  After seeing Cannibal Holocaust, The Green Inferno, The Human Centipede I-III, Salo (120 Days of Sodom), I Spit on Your Grave, Meghan is Missing, etc, etc, it takes a lot to disturb me.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: SuperTed on June 27, 2019, 02:55:02 AM
Haven't seen it but will check it out. I remember watching Cannibal Holocaust when I was around 12 and being disturbed by that.
As SF1900 has said though, the internet as desensitized us to horror films. Watching real horror is only a few clicks away. I was a teenager and remember getting pretty spooked when I saw stuff like 3 men and a hammer and Daniel Pearl's beheading. Now, videos such as those won't have the same impact.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Bevo on June 27, 2019, 03:02:10 AM
Fake or not I really hate this shit.
And really can't understand why people are so attracted by gore and cruelty, even on WhatsApp chat people are exchanging snuff shit.
Really makes you understand human nature unfortunately

Cause people are really fucked up individuals

Looks at all the murderers, serial killers, terrorists/drug cartels cutting off people’s heads, gutting out little kids while the father is forced to watch

Senseless

People should all go extinct
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Humble Narcissist on June 27, 2019, 03:06:41 AM
Cause people are really fucked up individuals

Looks at all the murderers, serial killers, terrorists/drug cartels cutting off people’s heads, gutting out little kids while the father is forced to watch

Senseless

People should all go extinct
So all people are murderers and serial killers?
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Bevo on June 27, 2019, 03:27:20 AM
So all people are murderers and serial killers?

Didn’t say that

People in general should all go extinct though
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Kwon on June 27, 2019, 03:39:33 AM
A Serbian Film, Salo 120 days of Sodom and Men Behind the Sun are some movies for Getbiggers.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Humble Narcissist on June 27, 2019, 03:51:11 AM
A Serbian Film, Salo 120 days of Sodom and Men Behind the Sun are some movies for Getbiggers.
I forgot about A Serbian Film and Martyrs.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Purge_WTF on June 27, 2019, 04:44:17 AM
A Serbian Film, Salo 120 days of Sodom and Men Behind the Sun are some movies for Getbiggers.

 I actually had to pause "Men..." at one point to catch my breath. Hardcore.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Humble Narcissist on June 27, 2019, 10:15:12 AM
I actually had to pause "Men..." at one point to catch my breath. Hardcore.
Just added Men Behind The Sun to my viewing list.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: SF1900 on June 27, 2019, 10:30:51 AM
There was also “Traces of Death.”
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: SuperTed on June 27, 2019, 10:36:41 AM
Anyone seen the Guinea Pig film series from Japan? During the 90's, Charlie Sheen saw one of the films in the series and contacted the FBI believing it was a genuine snuff film.
I saw all the films a few years back. Most are quite silly but well made.  
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Joe Pietaro on June 27, 2019, 10:44:13 AM
There was FOD 1 & 2 and they used to fly off the VHS rental shelves.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: BB on June 27, 2019, 10:59:58 AM
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Here's the English dub of Unit 731: The Men Behind The Sun for those that want to see it with no hunting around.


Anyone seen the Guinea Pig film series from Japan? During the 90's, Charlie Sheen saw one of the films in the series and contacted the FBI believing it was a genuine snuff film.
I saw all the films a few years back. Most are quite silly but well made.  

Yes. Most old horror suffers from HD, and modern high quality viewing devices, but these were pretty well done for lower budget 80's - early 90's films. The one I remember the most was "Mermaid in A Manhole" -

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I remember it was in the coming attractions in front of a Sonny Chiba action film, and that pairing bugged me out the rest of the night. 

You can find most of them on Youtube and Dailymotion now, and that's a good way to view them, as lot of old Japanese and Italian horror is more scene viewing, than actual film watching :). 
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: loco on June 27, 2019, 11:01:05 AM
Hostel fucked me up since that shit is real. eastern europe is creepy as fuck -
freddy cougar movies fucked me up - i was like 8 watching those things

Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Titus Pullo on June 27, 2019, 04:16:42 PM
I saw some of those.  Most of the content was laughably fake, like the monkey brains sequence and that hilarious giant leech thing.  If you're after real nastiness, to go realgore dot com.  It's fucked up.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: YngiweRhoads on June 27, 2019, 05:24:26 PM
Cause people are really fucked up individuals

Looks at all the murderers, serial killers, terrorists/drug cartels cutting off people’s heads, gutting out little kids while the father is forced to watch

Senseless

People should all go extinct

This.

Humanity disgusts me.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Irongrip400 on June 27, 2019, 06:47:27 PM
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Here's the English dub of Unit 731: The Men Behind The Sun for those that want to see it with no hunting around.


Yes. Most old horror suffers from HD, and modern high quality viewing devices, but these were pretty well done for lower budget 80's - early 90's films. The one I remember the most was "Mermaid in A Manhole" -

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I remember it was in the coming attractions in front of a Sonny Chiba action film, and that pairing bugged me out the rest of the night. 

You can find most of them on Youtube and Dailymotion now, and that's a good way to view them, as lot of old Japanese and Italian horror is more scene viewing, than actual film watching :). 

What exactly is going on in the mermaid scene?
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: BB on June 27, 2019, 07:00:57 PM
What exactly is going on in the mermaid scene?

It's been a while, since I've seen it, but from what I remember it's about an artist that spends time in the sewers under Japan to get away from people. One day he's down there and finds a mermaid that he brings home, and tries to keep her, but she starts to rot. The rest of the film is him making "art" from pieces of her before she dies, and trying to keep it secret from the neighbors.

It's not a prize winner, more a "WTF is happening?" 1 watch type thing. 
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Humble Narcissist on June 28, 2019, 02:49:11 AM
This.

Humanity disgusts me.
You know, you can watch videos and movies of people doing good, right?
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: SuperTed on June 28, 2019, 03:21:09 AM
I ended up seeing Faces of Death yesterday. It was tame overall and as others have pointed out, most scenes were clearly fake to the point that it surprises me anyone could think otherwise. I suppose it came out during a time when the public was more sincere. By adding some occasional real footage (such as from the abattoir), the producers also blurred the lines between what was genuine or not. An interesting and quite enjoyable film regardless.

It's been a while, since I've seen it, but from what I remember it's about an artist that spends time in the sewers under Japan to get away from people. One day he's down there and finds a mermaid that he brings home, and tries to keep her, but she starts to rot. The rest of the film is him making "art" from pieces of her before she dies, and trying to keep it secret from the neighbors.

It's not a prize winner, more a "WTF is happening?" 1 watch type thing.  

Yes, that's an accurate summary of the episode. Nothing to dissimilar to what you'd expect from The Twilight Zone of The Outer Limits but more gory.
The later episodes from the Guinea Pig series including Mermaid in a Manhole were more fictitious but the earlier ones attempted to be more authentic. It was the episode "Flower of Flesh and Blood" which Charlie Sheen thought was a real homicide. The episode is of a man kidnapping and dismembering a woman.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: _bruce_ on June 28, 2019, 04:29:32 AM
Anyone seen the Guinea Pig film series from Japan? During the 90's, Charlie Sheen saw one of the films in the series and contacted the FBI believing it was a genuine snuff film.
I saw all the films a few years back. Most are quite silly but well made.  

I can only remember Android Of Notre Dame or something... could be that I'm mixing things up of course.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: beakdoctor on June 28, 2019, 11:40:36 AM
Ive heard of this cult movie that was released sometime in the early to mid 80's, which had real footage of people being killed in gruesome ways ie mauled to death by a lion, drownings, car crashes

never saw it because it was banned apparently- too hardcore/extreme

anyone verify its existence/seen it?

Yes. It exists.I dont remember it really well since the last time I saw was 30 plus years ago. If I remember It was fairly gruesome despite grainy footage. I think it showed the Mancini Duk Koo Kim fight. Also remember some villagers eating the brains out of a live monkey. torturing the poor animal. It's been forever since I've seen it.it was pre internet so its probably aged poorly and lame by today's standards.  I've seen worse shit posted on here though. Nothing is as fucking disgusting as those ISIS or Cartel executions.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Kwon on June 28, 2019, 01:10:20 PM
Yes. It exists.I dont remember it really well since the last time I saw was 30 plus years ago. If I remember It was fairly gruesome despite grainy footage. I think it showed the Mancini Duk Koo Kim fight. Also remember some villagers eating the brains out of a live monkey. torturing the poor animal. It's been forever since I've seen it.it was pre internet so its probably aged poorly and lame by today's standards.  I've seen worse shit posted on here though. Nothing is as fucking disgusting as those ISIS or Cartel executions.

Those are the worst.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Titus Pullo on June 28, 2019, 02:50:59 PM
Agreed, Kwon.  Those evil bastards will use anything to decapitate someone:  chainsaws, machetes, axes, swords...there are images I wish I could bleach from my memory.
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Deadpool on June 28, 2019, 03:32:43 PM
Fake or not I really hate this shit.
And really can't understand why people are so attracted by gore and cruelty, even on WhatsApp chat people are exchanging snuff shit.
Really makes you understand human nature unfortunately

this is what sells, and the news loves it
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: The Italian Lifter on June 29, 2019, 03:38:32 AM
this is what sells, and the news loves it

My grandpa was in Greece during WWII, never talked about things he saw there but told me only men that never been on the battlefield love war (and gore/sadistic shit). Guess he was right. Too many PlayStation warriors today...
Title: Re: anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on June 29, 2019, 03:39:44 AM
Ive heard of this cult movie that was released sometime in the early to mid 80's, which had real footage of people being killed in gruesome ways ie mauled to death by a lion, drownings, car crashes

never saw it because it was banned apparently- too hardcore/extreme

anyone verify its existence/seen it?

welcome to the 80s