Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Currently, I've never given a movie a 1 star rating before. I've given out a 3 star rating before to a movie but never a rating this low. This is mainly because even some of the worst movies I've ever seen had at least a few things good about them. But I have always wondered when I'll be able to find a movie that is so bad that regardless of how hard I try, I would not be able to find anything in it which is even somewhat good or entertaining.I think that I've found one.This awful disaster of a movie is distractingly violent, super offensive, and full of shock value. I can safely say that this is one of the worst movies ever made.This documentary really has no plot. It's just a montage of people and animals dying gruesome and bloody deaths and the narrator also gives disturbing commentary detailing how they died.The only point to this film is to shock and disturb the viewer. It's a hard movie to watch because the movie featured gruesome deaths just for the sake of it. There was not a single moment in this movie that contained any power and I didn't feel engaged at all throughout its entirety. I enjoyed Come and See because it had power with its massacre scenes and it had intelligent violence which stayed with me long after viewing it. Faces of Death on the other hand is nothing more than just 105 minutes of endless and tiring shock value.Also, there is one thing that really infuriates me about this movie more than anything else. It is that the movie often plays goofy and uplifting music while it shows footage of people being brutally murdered (also, most of the deaths displayed here are in fact real). Most of those people died brutal deaths here and it downright disgusted me how the movie uses the goofy music to make them sound like some kind of a sick joke. However, the movie actually offended me in this case. It proves that the directors clearly don't care at all for any of the people or animals who brutally died in this movie. This clearly has some of the worst, unfitting music ever in cinema history.I've actually seen some people give this movie a 5/5 rating. I've read many of the reviews by them but none of them have been able to justify this movie's flaws at all and none of them have been able to convince me that this movie isn't complete garbage yet. For the entirely of this one guy's review, he rambled on for how much of this movie was fake and how much it diminishes the movie's impact because of it. Yet, that idiot gave this movie a perfect rating. I have no idea know what those people see in this movie and I don't know why they think that this movie is a masterpiece. If you think that this is a masterpiece then go watch Come and See. Then tell me that this is a masterpiece.So in conclusion, this is an awful movie. It's just a montage of shock value and the movie handles them very poorly by throwing in super unfitting music which I found to be highly offensive. There was not a single moment in this movie that even somewhat interested me and I was extremely glad after this movie ended. This is the worst documentary I've seen and this is also the worst movie I've ever seen as well.

Dr. Francis B. Gross (whom I bet lost his certifications after making this movie), collects a series of supposed both real and staged clips of people dying gruesome deaths for the benefit of viewers. Why? Hell, why not? Let's all be necrophiliacs and creeps and stare at people getting killed! There's a difference between knowing something is a staged, fictional movie where no one gets hurt, and having the kind of sick mind required to enjoy what may very possibly be real clips of murders, suicides, graphic autopsies, accidents and animal cruelty. While many might argue with me, I think this was a pathetic, immoral and sleazy way to get money from an audience. Not only that but there are jokes throughout this morbid collection of deaths, and somehow it spawned a second and third in the series! Disgusting! No wonder it was banned and highly illegal to view in many countries! This isn't a movie. Even the most graphic and gory horror films are fictional, but with this one, it's using the miseries and misfortunes of people like us to get a quick buck or so from every viewer. I would avoid this garbage at all costs, and I'm surprised it's still even sold anywhere. I thought it was a horror movie when I found it on youtube, and by the time I saw the monkey scene I already had this review planning in my mind.

Very hard to find words,also hard to understand what is your life,if you can not understand what death means for you.A bit long,but coherent,and smart,sometimes manipulative documentary film,will leaves impression,if you are sensitive personality,or not.This will be to scary,and intense sometimes,please do not let children near to the screen,do not disturb them with this,if you feel your self you can tolerate reality,just give this a chance.If you know this was banned in lot of countries,this fact can give the first shock,and adrenaline to go to the rental store,and if you are there,think again,cause you can still chose something else.I heard once from a man:really the death gives meaning for life.Do not miss the end credits,cause you will need it.This film will be something more with that.7/10

Faces of Death is one of the most well-known Mondo films out there. Over the years many a teenager has rented / downloaded this film or one of its sequels and sat down with some buddies, some beer 'n' weed and tried to gross themselves out. It's almost like a rite of passage for many horror fans and is often the catalyst in opening the door to the darker, more extreme side of cinema.After an intro of graphic autopsy footage we are introduced to Dr. Francis Gross, who in his own words, has a "compulsion to understand death", he has travelled all around the world looking into the various faces of death in his attempts to comprehend it. Dr. Gross' introductory monologue and narration for the duration of the film is pseudo-intellectual bullshit extolling the value of life and how death should be looked in the face if we wish to understand and not be afraid of it. His dialogues true purpose is to serve as an acceptable excuse to show us some exploitive, gory, and mostly fake death scenes.The first quarter of the film is mainly made up of animal violence / cruelty - we see pit-bulls fighting, tribesmen killing and eating cattle, slaughterhouse stock footage, some dude shooting seals with an M-16 (!), and the 'infamous' (and once again fake) monkey brain eating scene where at a restaurant some rich folks crack open a live monkey's skull and eat his brains which are supposedly a delicacy. Most of the animal stuff isn't shocking and is really nothing worse than what you'd see on the National Geographic channel.The remaining three quarters of the film mostly involves humans: we witness a gator attack; an assassination and subsequent interview with the assassin, executions, suicides, death, religious & cannibal cults, a bear attack, concentration camp and holocaust images & stock footage, stunts gone wrong, car & train crashes, etc. etc. Pretty much all this footage is obviously simulated and the stuff that isn't is basically the kinda stuff you see on the news daily anyway (aside from the autopsies of course).Overall I found Faces of Death has dated really badly and seems like nothing more than tired (and really boring) shock tactics, which is exactly what it is. The simulated scenes which make up 85% of the film are atrociously acted, the gore looks obviously fake and the "creepy" synth and sometimes jolly jazz score just add to the schlock. Purely for stoned teenagers looking for some cheap thrills but even then, they'll probably be disappointed when nowadays films like August Underground and the like are so easily accessible.