Home :: DVD :: Documentary  

African American Heritage
Art & Artists
Biography
Comedy
Crime & Conspiracy
Gay & Lesbian
General
History
IMAX
International
Jewish Heritage
Military & War
Music & Performing Arts
Nature & Wildlife
Politics
Religion
Science & Technology
Series
Space Exploration
Sports
Faces of Death Collection (Vols. 1-4)

Faces of Death Collection (Vols. 1-4)

List Price: $69.98
Your Price: $62.98
Product Info Reviews

<< 1 2 3 4 >>

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Faces of Death IS Love!!!
Review: If you can dis-associat yourself, from your body, then you are fit to watch this film. Otherwise you'll prolly be offended.

KEEP THE CAMERA ALIVE!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Documentary and Horror Smash!!
Review: (...)
Ever since Faces of Death was first showed to the world it has become one of those few cinematic experiences that everybody has an opinion against; you either love or hate it. To the people who hate Faces of Death and then slag it off I believe you have some growing up to do. You knew what you were getting yourself into when you were about to watch it. Maybe you should consider to show some responsibility for your actions and then you might wonder what made you want to watch Faces of Death. What I don't like is when people critisise Faces of Death for being "inhuman" "Immoral" "vulgar" "this should be banned" "it represents a violent sickening society". One guy here puts it "life's example of moral decay". It's this last opinion which I have put which makes me believe people with opinions like this is life's example of moral decay, not Faces of Death. The reason why this is is because death fascinates all of us. And if you watch this documentary and then feel the need to make excuses that this would harm children and create murderers and rapists then can you at least question why you watched Faces of Death in the first place. It's people like you, one-star reviewers, that once said pornography would turn people into rapists, masturbation would turn people blind, horror films would turn people into psychopaths; despite that all these accusations have been proved the exact opposite. And please don't use children as an excuse to impose your own style of censorship upon us. You should be thankful, one-star viewers, that you have the right to view this. I think using children as an excuse against a film is just as bad as paedophilia and considering I was a victim by a paedohile when I was young I know what I'm talking about.
The Faces of Death boxset consists of real footage of mostly animals being killed and fake footage of humans being killed. You can easily tell which scenes are fake because the camera constantly jumps to another camera angle and so on to escape the effects. It reminds me of modern MTV style films with it's constant camera angle swapping. When you buy this boxset then it would be best if you watched "Faces of Death: Fact or Fiction" last. This way you can decide what scenes looked fake when you watch the Faces of Death series and then check if you're right when watching "Fact or Fiction". The most disturbing scene in the first Faces of Death, in my opinion, is the footage of air crashes. I thought people died in an air crash instantly and that no bodies were found intact! This scene got to me because I have a fear of flying. The other footage that I found disturbing was the footage of the electric chair. This was faked (I think!) and it is quite shocking. You can feel the pain the guy is going through just watching it. Faces of Death 2 is much more shocking and has less fake footage, but all the films in this boxset are done as a documentary and some parts are quite educational. I won't include scenes from these films in my review incase you'd like to see all the Faces of Death. But be warned, these films in parts will shock even the hardened gore fan and I consider myself to be a very hardcore gore fan with my collection of horror films.

Happy nightmares!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Absoloutely necessary.....
Review: Despite all of the negative reviews, these films are among my favorites, and are absoloutely necessary for horror and gore fans to see. Yes, it is fake for the most part, but that is not the point. The films are quite entertaining and despite what other reviews claim, the effects are superb given the time it was made. I promise that if you are a fan of gore, you should be fairly pleased with this collection, each film with the exception of "faces of death 2" has some quite shocking scenes.

The basic point of the films is a doctors personal study into the subject of death. The film is presented in a documentary style, piecing together many clips of people meeting there demise in horrible sorts of ways, and stock footage of accident aftermaths and morgues etc. As I stated earlier, the scenes where people are shown being killed are entirely fake. The fact that everyone thinks the fim is 100% real demonstrates the marketing genius that the director and gorgon video truly are.

Horror and gore fans , buy the collection, buy a case of beer, invite your friends over and have your first annual F.O.D. fest this weekend.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: No.
Review: Don't waste your money on this. It's all fake. They say so in an interview on the first DVD. Then again, you can tell most of it's fake within the first 10 minutes of each DVD. I'm mad that I spent money on these when I could've did something better with it...like bought gum or something.

The only somewhat good thing about the series is the cool music. Especially on the first one. It fits in so morbidly with the scenes that you should see (not buy) it just for that. Go watch the Banned from Television series. That's where the REAL good stuff is.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Most of the footage was faked.
Review: Heres some old news for those who do not know: many of the death scenes in the FOD series were faked.
The original director, John Schwartz, admits to faking much of the footage (search google for "Lifting the mask from faces of death").
Also, a discerning eye and some quality video editing software is enough to disprove much of the footage as being fake.
So what is real? According to the director, the animals being slaughtered, the autopsy footage and around 20% of the death footage from Faces of Death is actually real.
My advice? If your interested in this kind of thing than take a pass on Faces of Death and go to Ogrish-dot-com or find the recent fan-made "Real Faces of Death" compilation which contains almost every clip Ogrish has published (92-minutes, look on P2P, about 730MB).


Rating: 1 stars
Summary: I have a question
Review: How would you feel watching these people die if their parents were in the room with you?
If you don't care about that, then stop pretending so much.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Sick and Disgusting
Review: I cant believe that anyone would want to watch this monstrosity let alone buy it. It is a sad thing that anyone would consider this entertainment. I only gave it one star because you cant give it zero. HORRIBLE!!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Appauling
Review: I find this highly distrubing that a dvd can be found on the internet like this. I can understand DVDs like this being sold on the black market but should kept there. not on some auction site where there is a review for 13 year olds to fill out.

This film shows extremely damaging graphics of death. For an illegal film this is shocking to see it is on your auction site.

Disgusted in Australia

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Faces of Death Collections
Review: I first watched this movie when I was ten and could not keep my eyes off of the screen.Now that I'm older I still enjoy it but the fact that most of the scenes were not real really disappointed me but the movie is still off the wall crazy.Enjoy it best alone and in the dark

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Why??
Review: I haven't watched any of these, probably because I still have some shreds of sanity. For all the curious teens out there, these films show rabbits being skinned ALIVE, animals being butchered violently while yipping in agony, people being fried in electric chairs, people mangled on the German autobahn, people having their heads sawed off, and baby monkeys being clubbed to death. This isn't America's Funniest Home Videos, people. If you find pleasure in watching this stuff, you need counseling. It's that simple. (...)


<< 1 2 3 4 >>

© 2004, ReviewFocus or its affiliates