Alfred Smith I watched this originally at the local drive-in back in 1978, a few months after getting my driver's license. I have just watched it again and cannot believe how naive we all were back then. I watched the Blu- ray version and the majority of the actual footage looks to have been shot on Super 8 or 16mm film and is of very poor quality. What remains is not even worthy of a weak medical documentary. Far too much of the film, although gory, is obviously fake and set up, although they tried pretty hard with the heavy handed and not so subtle editing. Today's kids will easily see it for what it is, a poor exploitation flick. Not worth viewing now, except for perhaps nostalgic reasons.

Salpocalypse Now Yes, I was one of those lucky kids that had older "friends" who loved to experiment with the quality control stages & the psyche of a naive, fertile mind. Yikes! I think I managed to survive such torture, for the most part. As to whether these films contain actual footage and are 100% authentic? Well, I can only say that as a child, EVERYTHING looks to be, and is, REAL! However, a seasoned gore watcher will separate what is fact and/or fiction. Either way, you are in for some major "gross-out" time and I would advise you to stick to light snacking, especially for the more stomach sensitive viewers out there! This debut film (of a five-part series, respectively) is still one of my guilty pleasures, although it still gives me the chills even thinking about it! The narrator's voice keeps you frozen to your seat as the visual bombardment varies from mildly disturbing to extremely gruesome. Throughout the entire film, the viewer will be forcefully reminded as to how there is just something quite so unnatural, and tragic, to see the dead in their various stages of decomposition mostly due to A.) natural causes; or B.) horrific, freak accidents.

Thanasis Kostakis The fact with FACES OF DEATH is pretty complicated. Its shocking, disgusting, awful and at the very beginning tittles it makes it clear that it was made to shock and produce horror. Its really out of control. The movie goes on and on with death at all its forms, but there is no feedback; its just want to show you death. It says that its a journey to the unknown and that the movie shows how death experience really is, but to be honest, its just disgusting and weird. It doesn't go a bit further in to the death, it just shows you people and animals dying. But, one thing can be recognized about this film: its horror movie. There's a lot of movies calling themselves horror movies but this one really is. There is no much dialog, prologue or meaning. From the very beginning until the end, it shows death. So, as a horror film fan, i would say this is one of the best horror movies i ever seen. As a cinema fan, it's just a piece of b-movie filming recommended for special audience.

Tromafreak Are we looking at a Documentary here, or just plain old Gruesome exploitation? Overrated garbage, or underrated trash? Is it real, or is it fake? Hell yes to all. Whatever Faces Of Death is going for, it succeeds, how you view it only depends on how delicate your sensibilities might, or might not be. I guess the opening autopsy footage should be taken as somewhat of a warm-up, or absolute proof that this one isn't for you. From there, we are guided through a disturbing, yet slightly humorous, world-wide journey through the pitch-black, unforgiving realm of the only sure thing in life, death. Our tour of the dark side include "executions", "asassinations", "suicides", a rather long look inside a morgue, monkey brains being served in a restaurant, natural disasters, a bear attack, a peak inside the goings on of a satanic cult, and even religious, snake-handlers are thrown into the mix. A harsh, groundbreaking look at things we only hear, and read about, although, probably not quite harsh enough to be banned in 46 countries... then again, maybe it is. Watching Faces Of Death probably wouldn't make most people feel any better about dying. And, when you break it all down, this film really is just an extremely gutsy gore movie, disguised as a documentary. Fine with me. Aside from this, Faces Of Death is fairly interesting. I see no reason why they couldn't play this on The National Geographic Channel... oh yeah, well, there's always the eating of the monkey brains, but jeepers, even that is a little interesting. The only thing I could have really done without was the slaughterhouse scene. I'm a fan of gore, but Sheep gushing blood out their necks isn't very interesting, although, I guess they mean well, it's not like they were condoning these things, only making us aware. If we look at it like that, then Faces Of Death is a rather noble production, but not quite as deep as they're going for, but deep, nonetheless. Faces Of Death is certainly worth watching, probably even more than once, but spawning everything from Faces Of Death 2-6, to Traces Of Death, to Faces Of Gore might be a little much.This one is about as well-known as a B-movie could be without the luxury of being shown on television, now, that's what I call a reputation. Whether you consider this film to be as repulsive, and disgusting as you always heard, or simply another over-blown, urban legend, Faces Of Death will always be known as king of the shockumentaries. Whatever that's worth.