Faces of Death

"You can't unsee it."

2026 1h 37m EN

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★5.7TMDB · 147●63Metacritic★6.5IMDB · 1,174

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Synopsis

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A moderator on an internet video-sharing platform stumbles across a potential snuff film ring hidden in the depths of the site's content.

“You can't unsee it.”

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Cast

Barbie Ferreira
Margot Romero
Dacre Montgomery
Arthur Spevak
Josie Totah
Samantha Gravinsky
Aaron Holliday
Ryan
Kurt Yue
Neal
Jermaine Fowler
Josh
Charli xcx
Gabby
Ash Maeda
Drew

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Daniel Goldhaber
Writers: Daniel Goldhaber, Isa Mazzei, John Alan Schwartz
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Earned back only 35% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released this year — you're seeing it while it's still in the cultural conversation.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Faces of Death Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

ERA

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Directed by Daniel Goldhaber, shot by Isaac Bauman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Gavin Brivik. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Taylor Levy shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Barbie Ferreira and Dacre Montgomery and Josie Totah carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "You can't unsee it.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Daniel Goldhaber directs. Isaac Bauman behind the camera. Gavin Brivik scores. Taylor Levy cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Earned back only 35% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
2Released this year — you're seeing it while it's still in the cultural conversation.
3Part of the "Faces of Death Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Daniel Goldhaber, shot by Isaac Bauman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Gavin Brivik. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Taylor Levy shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Barbie Ferreira and Dacre Montgomery and Josie Totah carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "You can't unsee it.".
9IMDB entry: tt14619456 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 26 themes, including "post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)", "kidnapping", "beheading", "trauma".

The technical file

Cinematography: Isaac Bauman
Original score: Gavin Brivik
Editing: Taylor Levy
Production design: Christopher Stull
Costume design: Lauren Bott
Makeup / hair: Margeaux Fox
VFX supervisor: Eric M. Levy
Sound: Ric Schnupp
Stunt coordinator: Chelsea Bruland
Runtime: 97 min · 1h 37m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $7,400,000
Box office: $2,610,000
Return: 35% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Faces of Death (2026)
Metacritic: 63/100
IMDB rating: 6.5/10 · 1,174 votes
MPAA: R

Part of

Faces of Death Collection

A series of 'mondo' films (exploitation documentaries) on the theme of mortality.

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Daniel Goldhaber

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Leno2026-04-07
★ 8/10
I remember the original faces of death was really trending when I was in elementary school and the children would "smuggle" their VHS to each other to scare the shit out of the other children. This movie is surprisingly good for a revisiting of faces of death. In a world where everything that matters is getting those likes in your social media posts, Margot goes to the extreme and sees her sister die in a dangerous attempt stunt to the camera. She later join the social media company to screen harmful content believing she could make a difference, but when she starts seeing videos reacting the faces of death segments that look real snuff movies, the company just doesn't give a shit. When trying to figure out where those videos are coming from by herself she gets tangled in the mess. The movie is overall pretty good, the only suspension of disbelief was that the characters must be deaf, because fights are breaking out in their house and no one seems to hear it??
Chris Sawin2026-04-12
★ 1/10
You’d think that a horror film like Faces of Death would at least have some decent kills, but even those are uninspired and are more straightforward than anything else. Faces of Death feels like a lazy reboot; controversy has been replaced with apathy, and a cast of characters and performances you want nothing more than to reach through your screen and slap the st out of. Even the film’s meta aspects feel shoehorned in just to get that forced meme reaction: Leonardo DiCaprio enthusiastically pointing at the screen, a moment that is met instead with dizzying eye rolls and extreme facepalming. https://bit.ly/DeadFace
hmwalker2026-05-16
★ 10/10
Faces of Death for the social age, where gore and snuff are no longer regulated to behind the counter, illegally-sold Video Nasties, and cult film circles that shared videos around before early internet uploads. (Coincidentally I watch one such tape ‘Grave Robbing For Morons’, which think it a quaint little oddity). Point being, gore is mainstream now. What is shocking anymore? What offends? You can watch a fascist podcaster get slimed in 4K and tune in for your daily dose of live-streamed genocide now. This a movie for the “All Fake” Tiktok caption era. The mentions of Don’t Fuck With Cats, might seem slightly dated for 2026 as it was a doc that came out in 2019, but it absolutely works for me because I was actually shown one of Luka Magnotta’s snuff films in school - I vaguely remember him cutting a man up, before I turned away - it was that easily accessible. A Google search! Therefore I think the content moderation angle as a way into the discovery of the videos is a nice touch, I think it sells itself well, I’m sure people who do work similar jobs watch the craziest bullshit imaginable but just let shit go because they can’t be arsed to look into it more. Speaking of which, this could have very easily have become Red Rooms, if it went down a more “obsessed with the videos” route instead of doing one of my favourite horror tropes, A WOMAN INVESTIGATING AS PEOPLE THINK SHE’S CRAZY. Hey, if it ain’t broke! And Barbie Ferreira is a pretty solid Final Girl here too. Dacre Montgomery channels Tom Noonan‘s Francis Dolarhyde from Manhunter, with flares of Ted Levine’s Jame Gumb/Buffalo Bill, in a performance I just utterly love. Freaky psychos. Gotta love em. It is very much a Thomas Harris villain in a slasher coded setting. And just to be a slasher nerd, the white face mask reminds me of the killer in Edge of the Axe (1988). Overall, I’m shocked by this. I fucking loved it. It’s a slightly sleazy, 80s serial killer thriller - in the ilk of the previously mentioned Manhunter, Maniac, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, etc. - meets a late-90s/early-00s post Scream slasher movie in the vain of Urban Legend with just the right amount of grittiness found in the original Saw and The Human Centipede. All complimentary. I am a die hard Scream fan. I just rated a new Faces of Death movie 5/5 and the latest Scream sequel 1/2 Star. Much to think about. #Fod2024