Notorious Horror Movie Faces Of Death To be Remade By Cam Filmmakers

Controversial horror movie Faces of Death is getting a remake. The new version of the 1978 film will be written by Isa Mazzei and directed by Daniel Goldhaber. The pair previously made the acclaimed 2018 psychological horror Cam.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the rights to Faces of Death have been picked up by Godzilla vs. Kong producers Legendary Entertainment. The site states that the company hopes to kickstart a new franchise.

The original Faces of Death is part of so-called mondo subgenre, and consisted of gruesome footage of supposedly real-life deaths, presented by pathologist Francis B. Gröss (in fact actor Michael Carr). The footage is a mix of real and fake, from real-life car accidents to staged executions and cannibalism. The original film was a big hit on VHS in the US, and was followed by three sequels. In the UK, the movie was banned as part of the "video nasty" scare of the early '80s, and footage of real-life animal violence remains cut from the film to this day.

The new movie will reportedly focus on a moderator of a video website who encounters a group that is obsessed with Faces of Death and is recreating the deaths from the movie. But as in the original film, it becomes increasingly unclear if the killings are real or not.

Cam was released by Netflix in November 2018. GameSpot's review stated that it "works as a gripping, creepy horror thriller and as a topical, provocative satire, but never forgets to put its characters ahead of both aspects."