Product Details

• Actors: Michael Carr, James Brady, Mickey Crowe, Thomas K. Delahanty, John Hinckley
• Directors: John Alan Schwartz, Andrew Theopolis, Susumu Saegusa
• Writers: John Alan Schwartz, James B. Schwartz, Veronica Lakewood
• Producers: Andrew Theopolis, Herbie Lee
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 5
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Mpi Home Video
• DVD Release Date: July 30, 2002
• Run Time: 420 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (56 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000060MU9
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,010 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Faces of Death Collection (Vols. 1-4)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Customer Reviews

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Most of the footage was faked., January 26, 2005

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Matt Justin "Mike" (Wollongong, AUS) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Faces of Death Collection (Vols. 1-4) (DVD)

Heres some old news for those who do not know: many of the death scenes in the FOD series were faked.
The original director, John Schwartz, admits to faking much of the footage (search google for "Lifting the mask from faces of death").
Also, a discerning eye and some quality video editing software is enough to disprove much of the footage as being fake.
So what is real? According to the director, the animals being slaughtered, the autopsy footage and around 20% of the death footage from Faces of Death is actually real.
My advice? If your interested in this kind of thing than take a pass on Faces of Death and go to Ogrish-dot-com or find the recent fan-made "Real Faces of Death" compilation which contains almost every clip Ogrish has published (92-minutes, look on P2P, about 730MB).

21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absoloutely necessary....., February 18, 2003

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TheHillsHaveEyes13 (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Faces of Death Collection (Vols. 1-4) (DVD)

Despite all of the negative reviews, these films are among my favorites, and are absoloutely necessary for horror and gore fans to see. Yes, it is fake for the most part, but that is not the point. The films are quite entertaining and despite what other reviews claim, the effects are superb given the time it was made. I promise that if you are a fan of gore, you should be fairly pleased with this collection, each film with the exception of "faces of death 2" has some quite shocking scenes.

The basic point of the films is a doctors personal study into the subject of death. The film is presented in a documentary style, piecing together many clips of people meeting there demise in horrible sorts of ways, and stock footage of accident aftermaths and morgues etc. As I stated earlier, the scenes where people are shown being killed are entirely fake. The fact that everyone thinks the fim is 100% real demonstrates the marketing genius that the director and gorgon video truly are.

Horror and gore fans , buy the collection, buy a case of beer, invite your friends over and have your first annual F.O.D. fest this weekend.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Faces of Death Box Set (Vol 1-4), April 20, 2004

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Michael Deegan (Brisbane, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Faces of Death Collection (Vols. 1-4) (DVD)

I saw the first two movies in '92 and was quite astounded by how graphic they were at the time. I have raved on about them ever since to my friends etc and have tried to find them again but never could until now with the help of the internet. So I bought the box set but was quite disappointed with the content. A lot of scenes that I remember to be real are obviously fake. If you didn't know any better, you could be easily fooled but some scenes are that badly portrayed that you would have to be from another planet not to know you are being duped. The 'Fact or Fiction' part enlightens the viewer about what scenes are staged from the man who directed these films. I understand his comments that certain things have happened to people throughout time but for whatever reason, he was not able to film or obtain footage of the event so they re-enacted it (quite badly for the most part). There are some interesting parts to these movies though and you would need a strong stomach to watch some of it. I would give the presentation of the box set and the service from Amazon.com 5 stars but the content only pulls a 2 from me.