Review of Faces of Death (1978) by Edgar C — 03 Oct 2009
Faces of death is lame and nasty, real and fake, controversial and dated, deep and shallow. Faces of Death is a mixed bag of qualities and defects, and ends up being a tremendoulsy bad and varied documentary that treats death in several ways.
50% of the footage is real, whereas the other 50% has been proven staged and fake. This film goes from Mexico (Las Momias de Guanajuato) to Africa, from the Amazon to Southeast Asia, from hospitals, prisons and morgues to slaughterhouses.
John Alan Schwartz (aka Conan Le Cilaire as a director, aka Alan Black as a writer [WTF?!]) directs a half fake, controversial and undeniably graphic and disturbing shockumentary that easily enters into the mondo genre.
Honestly, this documentary isn't worth your time unless you think that this documentary has a deeper meaning that it seems or if you only want something shocking or different. This is not among the worst films/documentaries I've ever seen, but it certainly is not good.
44/100.
This review of Faces of Death (1978) was written by Edgar C on 03 Oct 2009.
Faces of Death has generally received mixed reviews.
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