If you’ve been waiting for the remake of the infamous 1978 faux-documentary Faces of Death, your wait is almost over. Ahead of its debut this month, a brand-new Faces of Death clip has dropped. It reveals “Euphoria” star Barbie Ferreira stumbling across a disturbing video. One that could traumatize a person for life. Suddenly, before her is a video of a man being executed in the electric chair.
Content Moderation Goes Wrong
This is not a simple montage of gore. Directors Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber (Cam) are dragging the concept into the social media era with a meta twist. We follow a content moderator (Barbie Ferreira) for a massive, YouTube-style platform. Her soul-crushing job is to scrub the internet of things no human should see. However, she stumbles upon a group meticulously recreating the “deaths” from the original 1978 film. In a world of deepfakes and AI-generated misinformation, the movie asks the most terrifying question of all: Is it real, or just a really good fake?
The Cast & Crew
The lineup for this movie is surprisingly stacked for a gore-fest. Ferreira stars along with Dacre Montgomery, our favorite “Stranger Things” lifeguard/villain. Charli XCX, Josie Totah, Aaron Holliday (Cocaine Bear), and Jermaine Fowler round out a very modern cast.
Daniel Goldhaber is in the director’s chair and worked from the script written by Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei (the team behind the fantastic webcam horror Cam).
The film was actually shot back in 2023 and has officially earned an R rating for strong bloody violence, gore, and language; there’s no surprise there.
This highly anticipated horror film officially hits theaters next Friday, April 10, via Independent Film Company and Shudder. Please, leave your kids at home for this one. Watch the new NSFW Faces of Death clip below.
