Review of Faces of Death (1978) by Themumblelover . — 21 Oct 2013

Faces Of Death is a nice Mondo film that delivers loads of shocking, gory and disturbing deaths that are a bit real in parts while the rest are fake. Faces Of Death isn't really a film at all because the whole movie is shot in a documentary style so lately its a film that has a collection of clips of people dying like suicides, accidents especially animal slaughter scenes.

To be honest I seriously like Faces Of Death and it seriously delivers gallons of goodies for gorehounds and Horror fans as well an this movie is seriously not for the faint of heart because it is a very tough movie to watch and the film is totally shocking to the core.

What I like about Faces Of Death is that the film moves in a solid pace after a short introduction by Doctor Frances B. Gross the movie starts with shots of dead bodies that are extremely disturbing until in the next half of the film we get to see gallons of hardcore gore images and each of the kills are super gory, realistic and top notch disturbing I was seriously shocked at most of the footages of the film.

Most of the footages may be shocking but only half of them are real and the other half are a bit fake but the content of each footage is always disturbing, shocking and gory as well. The animal slaughter scenes are real and very gory especially the tribal scenes where one of the tribes stab a cow in the neck and grab their blood and drink it.

The electric chair footage is probably the most shocking footage in the movie and the monkey killing scene is by far the most graphic and the most disgusting footage in the film and it may look fake but it remains as a shocking and gory footage while the rest of the footages are very shocking at the exact same time and I love how the footages are shot with a neat cinematography it gives the film a gritty and contemporary look.

Director Conan Li Claire created a movie that features loads of disturbing and gory images that will shock audiences and he did a fantastic job with his work on all the Faces Of Death movies so far. Overall Faces Of Death is a entertaining and shocking plus gory and disturbing Mondo film to satisfy gore hounds.

This movie gets a 10/10.