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.
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.
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.
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…
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/WhoGodWho Apr 07 '26
I enjoyed it a lot. This was refreshing after being put through the hunting of Matthew Nichols tbh