Product Details

• Actors: Samuel Berkowitz, Michael Carr (II), Adolf Hitler, Thomas Noguchi
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English, German
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Mpi Media Group
• VHS Release Date: October 8, 1996
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (74 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304243324
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #72,715 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Ok, if you take it for what it is..., November 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Faces of Death [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Nothing more than a creative, but mostly deceptive exploitation of mankind's morbid curiosity of death and mutilation. Although the special effects were decent, most of the scenes were re-created. (For those of you who still believe it's real, read the ending credits.) Most decent Americans should find this movie repulsive in the least and is better suited for today's de-sensitized blood-&-guts galore adolecents than for mainstream horror fans. This movie does however take the credit for spawning the seemingly endless supply of actual death depicting videos and "shocumentry" TV shows. See FOD if only to say you saw it, but try "Traces Of Death" if you crave REAL footage of death, destuction, mutilation and mayhem.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good, but mostly fake., June 26, 1999

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Daniel Flaherty (Maine, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Faces of Death [VHS] (VHS Tape)

With the exception of the scenes with animals, most of the deaths scenes in this movie are fake. For example, the scenes of prisoner executions are fake because public executions are not permitted in the United States. They don't allow families of the victims to withness the executions, let alone somebody making a documentary. And if they were going to allow documentary film makers to film an execution they would want some organization with reputation and reputability like Time/Life or Discovery...not "Gorgon Video." And what about that assasination scene? I didn't mind the laughable set, but what got me was the fact that we witnessed "authentic" French politicians who spoke lousy text book french with american accents.

Still, for a horror movie, Faces of Death is actually quite imaginative and even thought provoking some times. And in spite of the low budget, Faces of Death had some well done directing and a descent script. Go see this movie, if only to say that you saw it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The best of the series, March 12, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The Original Faces of Death (DVD)

This review refers to the DVD edition of this film. I have seen all for of the Faces of Death films and as the title of this review says, the original is the best. By best I don't mean that all of the scenes are genuine. The man being eaten by the alligator scene is a hillarious staging, and the shoot out between the swat team and a man who has just killed his family, is staged. I guess that's the fun part about this film, trying to work out what real and staged using your own intuition and common sense. IE a gas chamber is a sealed chamber so obviously the guy being gassed is not really being gassed as you can hear him coughing.
That said there is some real footage of animal deaths/ mutilations and the pit bull fighting scene is garaunteed to offend most viewers. I personally don't have a problem with this, as this sort of thing would be going on whether or not the film makers/producers chose to film it or not. So in this regard, your choosing to watch this film will be based on whether you have a realistic world view and if you can deal or not.
The picture of this film is as grainy as the old VHS copy I saw in the early 90's. The sound mix is fairly disappointing too, you can literally hear the static come through on the commentary the narrator gives in the scene where the girl jumps to her death.
As far as the extras go, the Fact or Fiction documentary is a nice extra to have, as it provides comments on the more contraversial scenes from all 4 of the films -IE how we staged this was by........ - if you get the drift. It's kind of a campy documentary in the Fangoria vein of things, and Dr. Lewis Flelis hams it up while being interveiwed by some inexpereinced interviewer. There are also trailers for Faces of Death, Beyond the Bizare, and the Strange and Gruesome.
In summary, I give it 3 out of 5 mainly because although mostly fake, it's still entertaining to watch the so-called Dr. Francis B Gross crap on about what he thinks is happening based on his "Medical Expertise". I think of it as a bad horro films from the late 70's.