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Faces of Death ()

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A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV material to homemade super 8 movies.
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Dr. Francis B. Gröss
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Samuel Berkowitz
Mary Ellen Brighton ...
Self - Suicide Victim
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Self - Chief Medical Examiner Coroner
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Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
John Alan Schwartz ...
Leader of Flesh Eating Cult (uncredited)
Vern Stierman ...
Narrator (uncredited)

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John Alan Schwartz ... (as Conan Le Cilaire)

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John Alan Schwartz ... () (as Alan Black)

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William B. James ... executive producer
Herbie Lee ... associate producer
Rosilyn T. Scott ... producer

Music by

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Gene Kauer

Cinematography by

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Michael Golden

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Laurl Crushman
Lorraine Kirsten ... (as Ivon Simoné)
James Roy
Hank Simon ... lead editor

Editorial Department

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Gary Finlan ... assistant editor (as Sean MacDonald)

Makeup Department

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Allan A. Apone ... special makeup effects artist (uncredited)
Peter Knowlton ... assistant makeup artist (uncredited)

Production Management

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Derek Walsch ... production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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John Alan Schwartz ... assistant director (as Johnny Getyerkokov)

Sound Department

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Spary Dauterman ... sound effects editor
Manny Samaniego ... assistant

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Adal Aboul-Hosn ... contributing camera operator
Alberti Cerna ... camera operator: second unit
Stephan Crowder ... camera operator
Daniel De LaSantos ... camera operator: second unit
Dimetri Fermo ... director of photography: Europe
Don Gilberg ... camera operator: second unit
Michael Golden ... director of photography: America
Shelly Kurtz ... contributing camera operator
Phillippe La Croix ... contributing camera operator
Lester Markham ... contributing camera operator
Wolfgang Offenbach ... camera operator
Andrew Winston ... contributing camera operator

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Michael Carr ... creative consultant (as Dr. Frances B. Gröss)
Andrew P. Kirkham ... dvd producer [gb]

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John Freeman ... acknowledgment of still photographs: British Museum Photo

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Plot Summary

A 'mockumentary' hosted by Dr. Francis B. Gross, a coroner. He is trying to show you the different 'faces' of people while dying. There are faked scenes of people getting killed intermixed with footage of real accidents. There are executions by decapitation (in an unknown Arab country) and the electric chair. One scene shows a group of tourists in Egypt smashing a monkey's head while still alive and eating its brains. There are shots of animals eating people and Satanic orgies using dead bodies. There is a segment that deals with an alligator that accidentally entered 'residential' waters. The local warden goes in his boat to get the alligator back into the sea when he accidentally falls over and becomes gator bait. The film ends with newsreel footage of people jumping off buildings and major accidents. Written by Sujit R. Varma

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Taglines Experience the graphic reality of DEATH, close-up... See more »
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Also Known As
  • The Original Faces of Death (United States)
  • Faces of Death: Junk 1 (Japan, English title)
  • Junk (Japan, English title)
  • Face à la mort (France)
  • Gesichter des Todes Vol. 1 (Germany)
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  • 105 min
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Budget $450,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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Trivia In a February 2012 interview with the National Public Radio program "On the Media," the movie's creator, John Alan Schwartz, said that the scene that purports to show real tourists in Egypt killing a monkey and eating its brains was really filmed in a Moroccan restaurant in the US using Schwartz's friends as actors, foam mallets, a model monkey with a prosthetic breakaway head, a trick table, and cauliflower covered in theater blood for the brains. See more »
Goofs The narrator refers to "the country of Africa". Africa is a continent. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Naked and Cruel (1984). See more »
Soundtracks Faces of Death Theme Part 1 See more »
Crazy Credits Exiguous scenes within this motion picture have been reconstructed to document and further clarify their their factual origin. See more »
Quotes Dr. Francis B. Gröss: Perhaps the greatest disaster of all is one that man has created himself.lf nature doesn't destroy the environment, it is very possible that the human being will.
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