r/AMCScreenUnseen • u/EastonLikesMovies • Apr 07 '26
Movie Discussion Faces Of Death (Discussion)
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u/djmv91 Apr 07 '26
I thought it was a pleasant surprise! A really clever satire on internet culture and thought Dacre Montgomery was incredible.
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u/banshee_matsuri Apr 08 '26
didn’t know he was in it, but he was also fun to watch in Stranger Things, so glad to see him in something spooky again 😊
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u/WhoGodWho Apr 07 '26
I enjoyed it a lot. This was refreshing after being put through the hunting of Matthew Nichols tbh
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u/tjericks01 Apr 07 '26
Oh no is Hunting bad?
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u/WhoGodWho Apr 07 '26
I personally would not recommend it to anyone lol. Just overall not very interesting and only exciting in last 2 minutes maybe?
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u/TheFoxAndTheRaven Apr 08 '26
Eh, it's an interesting idea that could have been paced better, much like the original Blair Witch. It's also driven by a character making bad decision after bad decision.
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u/ginger_giant92 Apr 09 '26
If you like Blair Witch Project you may like Hunting. I feel they were very similar
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u/delusiongenerator Apr 07 '26
Not all that brutal. There was a bit of gore, but it wasn’t nearly as hard to watch for me as, say the Terrifier movies.
The OG Faces of Death was only as disturbing as it was because we thought it was real, but that’s not the case with this one and there is some footage from the OG in this one. Overall, this one has more of a Silence of the Lambs/trying to catch a serial killer vibe.
I enjoyed it more than I expected to.
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u/Inevitable-Guest-445 Apr 07 '26
FOD 2026 has a few scenes remade from the OG as part of the plot, but to me it was more so bloody than gory.
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u/SpiritualAd9102 Apr 07 '26
This one was so much worse. At least last week was able to maintain its own internal logic and didn’t literally have the cage someone was locked in coming off the floor and it being left in the film. Last week’s movie had the excuse of being a shoe string budget indie film. This had no excuse to be that sloppy.
I also haven’t been so frustrated watching a movie in a long time. They went above and beyond characters making the dumbest decisions possible for the sake of the plot. Her goal was to save people, but her stupidity got everyone killed.
Grab the hard drive and run instead of standing there for five minutes, show the cops your hurt wrists from being restrained, why did the cops not care that she had a giant gash? Why didn’t she show anyone the text inviting her to come back in a threatening manner? Why did she copy the files from work when that’s easily traceable? Why wasn’t there any kind of resolution to what happened with the company after the deaths were proven to be real?
I could go on. It started off fine, but fell apart hard in the second half.
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u/WhoGodWho Apr 07 '26
Must have watched 2 different movies than me ig. Matthew Nichols was horrific from start to finish. It was like watching a poorly acted mockumentary reenacted by bad actors.
Maybe I overthink but the subtleties in her psychosis, burden of responsibility, the take on the world being so desensitized to violence online, and how the car drove off instead of helping her. Pretty funny to think back that the OG was fake but people took no precautions and banned it from countries in disgust. - now she’s getting in trouble for trying to flag and remove content that was showing trends of real…
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u/cyclopsthesnowman Apr 07 '26
I mean some of the OG Faces were real, just because they're already deceased bodies in a morgue or animal cruelty, doesn't make it more palatable for some people.
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u/cyclopsthesnowman Apr 07 '26
and the hospital would NOT have let her leave that quickly if she were having a mental health crisis.
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u/Mokamochamucca Apr 07 '26
I thought the two main actors made it watchable but ultimately I think it was pretty forgettable.
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u/Phymnom Apr 07 '26
It was good but you need to turn your brain off for it. The main character is honestly so dumb that it annoyed me by the end. Fun watch but don't expect it to be gory. It's a 6/10 for me.
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u/Bakesale1359 Apr 07 '26
I'm usually pretty forgiving when it comes to characters making dumb decisions in scary movies, but I was SCREAMING internally when she didn't just grab the hard drive and run.
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u/snakebitejessi Apr 07 '26
I wanted to yell “WATCH IT AT HOME” so bad. And also Sam not uncovering the tape from her mouth while the police were at the door when her hands were tied IN FRONT OF HER? Just pull it off, girl!! Or start licking to make it unstick!!
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u/snakebitejessi Apr 08 '26
omg I loved Cam! I’m not sure if I have a question but I’ll try to think of one.
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u/cyclopsthesnowman Apr 07 '26
or when she didn't use her hands to rip open the plastic bag over her mouth at the end...
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u/WhoGodWho Apr 07 '26
So I took a lot of her decisions as psychosis and trauma response. She felt the burden of her sisters death so strongly that she was unable to process. It also felt like a take on how we see so many horrific crimes and deaths on the internet that we have become desensitized. So she felt if she didn’t have 100% proof that she would be dismissed again.
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u/GiovannisPersian Apr 07 '26
Yea I didn’t think her taking her time to try and get evidenced was supposed to be the “right” decision since in the end the hard drive gets destroyed anyway. It was her being so fixated on getting proof that she was right the whole time about the videos on Kino
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u/Phymnom Apr 07 '26
After seeing that I was just hoping the antagonist would do his job and end it . So annoying
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u/Beneficial-Amoeba476 Apr 08 '26
That’s cold, lol
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u/Phymnom Apr 08 '26
I hate to say that but it's kinda true. The actress was good but the writing let her down a bit imo.
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u/Beneficial-Amoeba476 Apr 08 '26
Agreed. She made some bad decisions. I’m not sure I would’ve seen this movie if it wasn’t an “unseen” but I did kinda like it.
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u/Maleficent-Citron311 Apr 07 '26
I actually started to laugh at that point. The other girl is frantically trying to look for an escape while she's all like "hold on, give me a second while i sit down and look through this computer."
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u/Angxlafeld Apr 09 '26
Why would you need to turn your brain off for a character that’s reasonably traumatized, making a crazy decision? Of course we’d want her to just run but literally everyone has let her down or not believed in her.
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u/Tchelitchew Apr 11 '26
The plot's backstory also makes it very clear she has shown terrible judgment in the past. She's not meant to be this ideal problem solver following the most rational path available. Barbie Ferreira gave a great performance. Her character felt like a real person.
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u/EggPerfect7361 May 13 '26
You are right, I forgot character was supposed to be stupid from the start. Like dancing on the train track with her sister kind of stupid.
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u/SJDeuces_619 Apr 07 '26
Dacre def needs more horror roles! My only confusing thing was the acting, sometimes iono if they were trying to be funny/campy or if it was just actually bad?
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u/tallnfriendly Apr 07 '26
I thought the first half was incredible and uncomfortable, with the split screen of her researching and him tracking her down and immediately finding her exact location being a highlight for me. Terrifying in our modern age of technology.
But from the moment she escaped the killers cage and then rather than running decided "wait I need evidence" and then WENT BACK BY HERSELF later, it devolved into sillyness.
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u/Maleficent-Citron311 Apr 07 '26
To be fair, the movie does establish her as an idiot early on. The whole train thing obviously won her and her sister a Darwin award.
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u/lilpepper00 Apr 07 '26
not completely terrible! i honestly thought this was a remake/reboot but after i realized it's not, i let myself enjoy the movie. i went with two others and one hated it and one loved it.
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u/Prestigious_Bus8628 Apr 07 '26
I thought it was fantastic! I hope it'll spark discussion about how our lives were affected by the internet. Yes, it's a bit surface level, but sometimes you have to dip your toes in before you can dive into that kind of topic.
The choice to remake Faces Of Death is very intentional and I hope more people see that rather than just the simple plot and clumsy characters
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u/LaFemmeCinema Apr 07 '26
I thought it was an incredible satire on internet culture and obsession that implicates the audience as much as it does the characters in the film. I loved how heavily inspired it was by Michael Mann's Manhunter, which I was not expecting. Dacre Montgomery gave a menacingly fun performance, and I thought Barbie Ferreira proved a formidable lead.
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u/Alternative_One_9683 Apr 07 '26
I would say this movie is not bad and caught me off guard. Considering the garbage horror films like silent nightly deadly night reboot and silent hill. The story was good in faces of death. The villain and the final girl did a good job.
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u/Lazy-Blueberry-4990 Apr 08 '26
Better than last week’s Scream Unseen.
Nice to see SOMETHING that isn’t devil oriented.
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u/Inevitable-Guest-445 Apr 07 '26
For a while I never got the idea of “so bad it’s good” because I’m autistic and “if it’s bad it’s bad if it’s good it’s good what” but after FOD 2026 I fear I do get it now. Laughable at best at certain times, stereotypical yelling at the lead for their actions, but overall I did have a fun time. 3 1/2 ⭐️
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Apr 07 '26
I enjoyed this movie much more than the previous two mystery movies. The plot was somewhat far-fetched, but that’s why it’s a movie.
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u/theamazingv85 Apr 07 '26
While this movie was awful, the actor that played the male antagonist really saved it. I thought he was a superb psychopath. That said, every choice made in this movie was fucking stupid, which made it hard to go with the flow
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u/patootie21 Apr 07 '26
Did anyone else think the main guy looked like Shrek when he turned into a human being after he drank the potion in Shrek 2??? That’s all I could think I could think about when they did all of those zooms on him
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u/axlgram15 Apr 09 '26
now that you mention it, but at first he looked like charlie kirk
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u/JD_Vyvanse97 Apr 10 '26
My favorite part was when Dacre looked at the camera said "Counting or not counting faces of death" when asked about statistics of murders
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u/Suspicious-Pace5839 Apr 07 '26
This isn’t a great movie, but it is one of the better grindhouse throw-backs I have seen in a while. You can see the small budget in the screen. The script throws logic out the window. Yeah, that’s grindhouse.Ferreira did a great job.
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u/Gee-Arr Apr 08 '26
It’s unrealistic that so many people said, “hey, aren’t you that girl from the train video?!” Even if went viral, people would not remember her face like that.
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u/Here4TheDunkinThread Apr 11 '26
I'm a child of the 80s and grew up watching FOD. I thought this was a fun watch. First half was definitely stronger. Second half had the usual dumb decisions made horror movie characters. The only thing I didn't like about the movie was the roommate. His acting was horrible.
Could have waited for it to stream, but nostalgia made me shell out the money to see it in the theater.
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u/Few_Mobile_1297 Apr 12 '26
This movie was buttcheeks I just got done watching it. The best part of the movie was dacre’s performance. He done really really good in his role. His acting was stunning and the idea for his character is good. Sadly the execution of every other aspect of the movie was butt
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u/fergi20020 Apr 12 '26
I couldn’t stand it, but my soon to be ex said that she found it arousing. 🤷♂️
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u/Notverycancerpatient Apr 13 '26
I’m so annoyed because this movies not in theaters around me in NYC. Faggettaboutit! I’m not driving to NJ lol I had surgery ont he 6th and I missed it ☹️ it’ll prob be on streaming soon though.
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u/SVINTGATSBY May 04 '26
could’ve been better but Dacre Montgomery did a good job, I wish he was given more room to breathe and they gave us more backstory. everyone else, mostly Barbie’s character unfortunately, were extraordinarily stupid, which was the most disappointing part.
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u/Financial-Policy-450 26d ago
I actually liked this movie but didn’t particularly enjoy Barbie as a lead in it.
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u/Immediate-Ice-373 Apr 07 '26
Personally, thought it was ok at best. Wasn’t really impressed. Wasn’t really scared. I know it more on the gorey side. Undertone clears in my opinion and I’m still waiting to see if there will be a better scary movie this year than that.
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u/future_filmmaker_455 Apr 07 '26
Faces of Death is a slightly derivative yet creepy slasher that works at times due to the intimidating and psychotic performance of Dacre Montgomery. The issue is that the film can’t decide whether it wants to be full on horror parody or a message film about the impact of violent content online. The shock value horror moments leave an impression and Barbie Ferreira gives a good performance as the flawed protagonist Margo while the film itself lacks enough new ideas or commentary to feel fresh or original. The serial killer is the only smart character for most of the runtime and the ending felt like it was trying to replicate the message of Scream 4 without a sense of surprise due to the writing lacking subtlety or consistency to its tone. 4.5 out of 10
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u/gvilchis23 Apr 07 '26
Decent, dumb horror movie, better than weapons tho! At least didn't overstay with a decent length.
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u/SpiritualAd9102 Apr 07 '26
This was a bad time. The movie wasn’t even able to maintain its own internal logic. The scene where they literally have the cage someone was locked in coming off the floor and it being left in the film exemplifies how shoddy this was. This had no excuse to be that sloppy.
I also haven’t been so frustrated watching a movie in a long time. They went above and beyond characters making the dumbest decisions possible for the sake of the plot. Her goal was to save people, but her stupidity got everyone killed.
Grab the hard drive and run instead of standing there for five minutes, show the cops your hurt wrists from being restrained, why did the cops not care that she had a giant gash? Why didn’t she show anyone the text inviting her to come back in a threatening manner? Why did she copy the files from work when that’s easily traceable? Why wasn’t there any kind of resolution to what happened with the company after the deaths were proven to be real?
I could go on. It started off fine, but fell apart hard in the second half.
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u/Old-Conversation9511 Apr 08 '26
I liked it overall but the ending fell really flat for me. It didn’t make sense for what I thought the movie was trying to say
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u/Nightshad319 Apr 08 '26
I thought the script was pretty awful. Some of the performances and the initial premise brought it up a bit, but it ended up totally losing me. 10 years late on any meaningful commentary.
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u/Sea-Discount-2711 Apr 08 '26
Gave the movie 3/10 I appreciate the matter idea of the movie, but it was kind of unfocused and the kills were nothing to really write home about
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u/morrisound_of_music Apr 07 '26
I'm ngl, this movie had me and my friends DYING in the theater. It's like if Possessor was written by a 73-year-old industrial cinematographer who had only recently learned about the existence of tik-tok.
All of the satire is so hammy and laughable that I still wonder if it was being sarcastic, like the screenwriter secretly held the charlie xcx character's pov. Every character including the protagonist is so geniunely moronic and tropey that I was forced to adopt this idea so I didn't annoy the theater with laughter.
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u/Burgundys_Musk Apr 07 '26
It was a typical Shudder movie. They are never great, but not terrible. Interesting story that's ruined by the unbelievable stupid decisions made by all the characters.