Fuck, I really wanted to do a review for Faces Of Death this month, but how does one go about writing about such a movie? I mean like a presentable review. Not just rambling like what you're about to read. There's no story. Just a bunch of gruesome scenes, some real, some not so real. Scenes with political statements where the narratator chimes in with a little pollution/anti-war preachiness now and then. This movie isn't quite the traumatizing gorefest it's legend would suggest, and probably isn't banned in 80% of the world either. I smell a big load of hype. And that's ok because I love me some Faces Of goddamn Death. Sure, the accidental deaths are sweet even though they're not real, and the score is pleasant to the ears, but most of all, I just dig that very dated 70's vibe this one gives off. Always have.

The killing of the cows in the slaughterhouse, while gay, didn't bother me that much. Not nearly as much as other animal deaths from later FOD installments. That stuff got pretty bad. The morgue scenes was about as extreme as it gets, the guy who snapped and murdered his family was funny, The snake handlers were too. The scene where the guy who supposedly got eaten by the bear was retarded, but entertaining. Seems like the best skits on here are the fake ones. I'm fine with that. Which are your favorite FOD skits?

I think my favorite out of the whole series was the one where the guy in the parachute landed in an Alligator farm. Oh, come on, that's good shit!

in the 4th one, some drunken college kid died bungee jumping cuz the rope was too long. Stuff like that is what comes to mind first when I think of the FOD series. If any type of death CAN be funny, it's the accidental kind.

In one of them, there was this Vietnamese family preparing a puppy to eat for lunch, sticking a knife in what is obviously a close-up of a stuffed animal filled with liver and whatveer else. Kudos for not killing actual puppies.

I was watching FOD on Youtube recently. Interesting how they cut out the part with the black guy getting the gas chamber. That's a bit racist, imo.

How 'bout those protesters? people holding up signs and shit and one of them randomly goes off to the side to light himself on fire. Kinda reminded me of old man Vanhentenryck during my most recent viewing. I could totally see him rocking out to "jesus Doesn't Live Here Anymore" whilst aflame. Come to think of it, this one is my favorite due to it's sheer randomness.

They also got FOD 2, 3, and 4 on Youtube if anyone's interested. I've never seen 5 or anything after it. Have you? Pretty sure I rented Traces Of Death decades ago but can't remember anything. Those aren't easy to find copies of, I've noticed. Is there a Death Traces? Maybe I'm thinking of Death Faces. Then, there's other pieces of shit like Faces Of Gore, and well, these types of movies peaked some time before those happened, didn't they? I liked Africa Addio, Shocking Asia, Shocking Africa and Mondo Cane, but Faces Of Death is still king, even though it feels more like a regular movie than a documentary.