anyone seen this movie "Faces of Death" ?

[old-school-lifter]

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?

[michael arvilla]

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!)

[old-school-lifter]

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

[Matt]

R. Budd Dwyer.

[Fortress]

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.

[SF1900]

It was rather lame.

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

[BB]

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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[AbrahamG]

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. 

[tres_taco_combo]

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

[stuntmovie]

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!

[tres_taco_combo]

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

[Irongrip400]

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.

[Board_SHERIF]

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.

[stuntmovie]

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!

[BB]

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.

[Board_SHERIF]

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..

[Campeon Del Mundo]

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.

[Purge_WTF]

 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.

[Coach is Back!]

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

[AbrahamG]

One of the videos showed a guy being quartered.  That was rough.

[SOMEPARTS]

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.

[Kwon]

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.

[Skeletor]

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!

[_bruce_]

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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[The Italian Lifter]

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