Review: 'Faces of Death' was first horror movie to claim it was real and cribs from news and mostly old horror movies

Faces of Death   Unrated      

            Long before the Blair Witch hokum, the great cult classics were spoofed in this "mock umantary" of what it would be like if someone documented various ways to die. So clever was their campaign of "so gross it was banned" and "this was all real!" that many boys who watched it were convinced, until they reached about 16 and saw a third of the movies they liberally stole scenes from. (Actors who "died" would appear in later bigger films also). Most notably, Cannibal Holocaust gets cribbed a lot. It didn't matter if afterward they interviewed the actors who supposedly died. Some people who are now grown men were still convinced to this day, even though their friends were trying to explain it isn't, that it was all make up, camera angles, and clever advertising. 
Review by Adam Browne