Faces of Faux Death

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

i'm sure most of you guys remember the psuedo documentary film faces of death. basically what i wanna know is,did anybody else besides me kinda doubt its authenticity from the very beginning? my uncle had this horrible grainy bootleg copy of it back in the late 80's.so i invited my local homies to come watch it with us one Saturday late afternoon. we were all about 11 or 12 at the time.

so as we were watching it the morgue scenes really sent chills down my spine.but after that something was wrong and i knew it.it was hard to explain but it just didn't look authentic for some reason.probably because certain scenes was too over the top.i didn't say anything at first, and just choose to keep it to myself.the only thing i felt was real was the last scene that showed people being executed by a firing squad.after the film was over i told everybody i think this is fake.and of course i got ridiculed for saying that.

so behold years later it is proven that 98.9% of the death scenes was fake.i felt vindicated!!!!!,and i rubbed it in my friends faces.because up until then they still chastised me for saying it was fake. the only thing that was real was the firing squad (as i expected),and the plan crash victims.which surprised me cause i thought that was fake too.the bodies looked like chopped up hunks of raw chicken lol.(not funny i know)

so anyone else caught on to this ruse in the beginning?

[The Zapper]

Some snuff films are real, but you're right, there are more fake ones than real ones. I was in college at the time, and my roommates wanted to see death I guess. I wasn't in to it then, and I wont even watch them at all now. Real or fake, I don't want any part of it. The films I had to watch in law enforcement classes had plenty of death and gore, and I never want to see another film like that.

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

Some snuff films are real, but you're right, there are more fake ones than real ones. I was in college at the time, and my roommates wanted to see death I guess. I wasn't in to it then, and I wont even watch them at all now. Real or fake, I don't want any part of it. The films I had to watch in law enforcement classes had plenty of death and gore, and I never want to see another film like that.as i got older my curiosity about them faded away.now i have no real interest in watching the real ones.

[kmeyers]

A lot of the stuff, if not all of it from the Faces of Death movies were fake.

I remember watching one scene where a bunch of kids are at a beach and one of them gets run over by a boat propeller while swimming in the water. All the kids on the beach were drinking cans that said "BEER" on the side.

I've never seen that brand of beer before. Totally staged.

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

A lot of the stuff, if not all of it from the Faces of Death movies were fake.

I remember watching one scene where a bunch of kids are at a beach and one of them gets run over by a boat propeller while swimming in the water. All the kids on the beach were drinking cans that said "BEER" on the side.

I've never seen that brand of beer before. Totally staged.not only that, but nobody has heard of the supposed victims.especially the one involving a "shootout" with "the police" .why didn't these HUGE events get reported or mentioned on the news?

[4thHorseman]

A lot of the stuff, if not all of it from the Faces of Death movies were fake.

I remember watching one scene where a bunch of kids are at a beach and one of them gets run over by a boat propeller while swimming in the water. All the kids on the beach were drinking cans that said "BEER" on the side.

I've never seen that brand of beer before. Totally staged.

Actually, I have seen that kind of beer.:confused:

[kmeyers]

Actually, I have seen that kind of beer.:confused:

On tv?



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[Ben Morgan]

I have the DVD somewhere actually

[4thHorseman]

On tv?



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If I recall correctly, I saw it at our local Price Chopper

[kmeyers]

If I recall correctly, I saw it at our local Price Chopper

Really? Weird. Plain white cans with black lettering saying "BEER" on them?

I'm pretty sure even generic beers have some kind of a brand name. Maybe not, I just assumed that since it looked so fake, and I've never seen anything like that, except on tv, that it wasn't real.

http://bottleblaster.com/images/cola_cover1.jpg
This is what the cans I'm talking about looked like, and this can is a fake.

[4thHorseman]

The can on the left similar to what I saw in the store, except the lettering was red and bigger.

[the_big_billbowski]

When I was growing up their was a Super Market that had the generic aisle which was everything in a yellow package with black lettering that just said the name of the item. Like BEER or POP or CHIPS, etc. Once on the way to Niagara Falls off the interstate was an entire store of this generic crap. Even the store was bright yellow. We joked that the store was just called STORE.

[kmeyers]

The can on the left similar to what I saw in the store, except the lettering was red and bigger.

When I was growing up their was a Super Market that had the generic aisle which was everything in a yellow package with black lettering that just said the name of the item. Like BEER or POP or CHIPS, etc. Once on the way to Niagara Falls off the interstate was an entire store of this generic crap. Even the store was bright yellow. We joked that the store was just called STORE.

That's hilarious. Learn something new everyday.

Now, back on track. There were several other tipoffs that a lot of the "deaths" were fake, but I can't remember what they were anymore. I haven't watched those things for so long.

[the_big_billbowski]

One of the easiest ways to tell that these were fakes were the fact that they had crowd reaction. I sure don't recall much of the films but I do remember that a few times the camera angles would change drastically but never seem frantic like if it was real, and it was as if their were multiple cameras on hand for a supposed "accident". The ones I figured were real were the ones from far away like the firing squad.

[The Zapper]

Ah yes. Beer beer. It's about as cheap and nasty of a beer as you could possibly hope for.

[Comic_Mobsta]

The Morgue scenes were real i think...

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

and it was as if their were multiple cameras on hand for a supposed "accident". yeah this ESPECIALLY bugged me.but the plane crash footage was real too to my surprise...the producers got the footage by cleverly manipulating some news station employee.

[The Zapper]

The train/head collision was real.

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

The train/head collision was real.i don't remember that one.i do remember that fake lame middle easter beheading though lol

[Joey Deadcat]

And that alligator attack was too edited to ever be real. Use of a bear attack from a Disney documentary (that I'd seen when I was a kid) was also a dead give-away.

[blackdragon6]

And that alligator attack was too edited to ever be real. Use of a bear attack from a Disney documentary (that I'd seen when I was a kid) was also a dead give-away.thats what did it for me,soon as i got the internet i found out the movie was mostly bogus.

[the goddamn batman]

1. "Beer" beer is real... well, it used to be anyway, no idea if it still is made today.

2. The guy who parachuted into the aligator farm? Introduced as 'caught on home video' yet, that one guy with his camcorder sure managed to get that single moment from like, six different angles, all of which required him to be in different places at the farm.

FAKE.

[Donald M.]

1. "Beer" beer is real... well, it used to be anyway, no idea if it still is made today.


I doubt it, unless it's done for novelty. By the mid-80's, No-Name Generics began to give way to store-specific generic brands and that's the way it's done now.

I'm just old enough to remember when white boxes/cans/bottles with black lettering was common, so I was a little surprised when kmeyers, who is the same age as me, listed as his "tip-off" something that was actually real.

I'm at least pleased to see others pointed out his mistake before me.

Also, I must say, discussing no-name generics is a lot more interesting than discussing Faces of Death, so let's do that now.

[kmeyers]

I doubt it, unless it's done for novelty. By the mid-80's, No-Name Generics began to give way to store-specific generic brands and that's the way it's done now.

I'm just old enough to remember when white boxes/cans/bottles with black lettering was common, so I was a little surprised when kmeyers, who is the same age as me, listed as his "tip-off" something that was actually real.
it was ONE of the things that stood out to me as being fake...It may have been wrong, but I would still bet that scene was fake. Like I said, I haven't seen the movie in a very long time, that was just the most potent memory I had about the Faces of Death movies.

I'm at least pleased to see others pointed out his mistake before me.

Also, I must say, discussing no-name generics is a lot more interesting than discussing Faces of Death, so let's do that now.

Aww, c'mon! Many no-name people have faced death from this "beer."

[Donald M.]

it was ONE of the things that stood out to me as being fake...It may have been wrong, but I would still bet that scene was fake. Like I said, I haven't seen the movie in a very long time, that was just the most potent memory I had about the Faces of Death movies.


The scene most likely is fake. I didn't suggest otherwise. The beer being real doesn't change the scene being fake. I'm just surprised you apparently never heard of/remember those old no-name generics.

No need to explain or defend yourself.

[kmeyers]

The scene most likely is fake. I didn't suggest otherwise. The beer being real doesn't change the scene being fake. I'm just surprised you apparently never heard of/remember those old no-name generics.

No need to explain or defend yourself.

I don't need to defend myself. The only times I've ever come across beer cans like that was on stage or during a production. I've never seen it cans like that in reality..and I'm from Missouri.

[Donald M.]

Never mind.

[Joey Deadcat]

I doubt it, unless it's done for novelty. By the mid-80's, No-Name Generics began to give way to store-specific generic brands and that's the way it's done now.

I'm just old enough to remember when white boxes/cans/bottles with black lettering was common, so I was a little surprised when kmeyers, who is the same age as me, listed as his "tip-off" something that was actually real.

I'm at least pleased to see others pointed out his mistake before me.

Also, I must say, discussing no-name generics is a lot more interesting than discussing Faces of Death, so let's do that now.

Ever see Repo Man? Lotta generic product placement in that flick(especially "BEER")! :)

[TomServoFan]

Sick s*** i must say, even though some of it's fake but the autopsies are for real.

[Jettison]

Man....Ive seen Phases and Faces...and I swear some of that stuff is real....people who have been in bad car accidents in 3rd world countries and stuff.....barf.....I always felt sick after watching that stuff.....sitting around in this dity little trailer in my buddy's parents' backyard back in high school....drinking beer....

Ugh....

[blackdragon6]

Sick s*** i must say, even though some of it's fake but the autopsies are for real.
yeah the autopsies are real,but most of the "accidents" aren't.

[Motormouse]

Even when i thought that all the scenes were real, the one that bothered me the most didn't even involve people finding increasingly stupid ways to get themselves killed, it was a peice with a Dolphin screaming as it's belly was sliced open. Made me ashamed to be human.:(

[howyadoin]

so anyone else caught on to this ruse in the beginning?It smelled like bullshit to me at the time, but I'm naturally skeptical. My roommate swore by it, but he was enough of a moron to believe that the set of Three Men and a Baby was haunted, and that Phil Collins extracted revenge on the guy who wouldn't save his friend from drowning.

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

It smelled like bullshit to me at the time, but I'm naturally skeptical. My roommate swore by it, but he was enough of a moron to believe that the set of Three Men and a Baby was haunted, and that Phil Collins extracted revenge on the guy who wouldn't save his friend from drowning.LMAO...i remember that phil colins urban legend.

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

btw the film is like public domain now,so if anybody wants a link to it just PM me.

[Donald M.]

btw the film is like public domain now,so if anybody wants a link to it just PM me.

Or just watch it on Google video.

I've never seen it before, but watching it now it's hilarious anyone would think this was real.

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

Or just watch it on Google video.

I've never seen it before, but watching it now it's hilarious anyone would think this was real.its also on divix

[blackdragon6]

The train/head collision was real.that was a bus,it was disgusting watching them literally scrape up that woman's brain matter.

as far as that suicide jumper scene the creater of FoD said-"We traveled to all these different film libraries to see what we could find about death and disaster," says Schwartz. "I found this footage of this woman jumping off a building, and it was just incredible footage. But the part of the footage we didn't have was the aftermath. So we (filmed) inserts into the actual footage to match it."

http://www.sptimes.com/News/102600/Weekend/Lifting_the_mask_from.shtml

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

what about this "documentary" called The Killing of America? its like FoD but i thinks its the real deal.my uncle brought the video tape back from over seas. cause thats the only place you could find it.but theres was other bootleg versions floating around during the late 80's.i had another slumber party with this tape the following weekend after the FoD get together we had.,and after we saw this we KNEW without a doubt that it was real (yet they still ridiculed me for thinking FoD was fake ...i just couldn't get a break ) =/