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Third installment in the infamous Faces of Death series. Features real footage mixed in with re-enactments and faked footage.Third installment in the infamous Faces of Death series. Features real footage mixed in with re-enactments and faked footage.Third installment in the infamous Faces of Death series. Features real footage mixed in with re-enactments and faked footage.
Cecil Clemons
- Self - Owner Gatorama
- (uncredited)
Veronica Lakewood
- Mike Lorenzo's Victim
- (uncredited)
James B. Schwartz
- Suicide Jumper
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe last public execution by Guillotine in France featured in this film was witnessed by a 17-year-old Christopher Lee on an academic field-trip. No one knew until Lee mentioned it in an interview, and someone approached him with the lone-footage and he confirmed it.
- Goofs(at around 19 mins) The sign says "No Unauthurized Personnel." It should read "No Unauthorized Personnel."
- Alternate versionsThe UK DVD is based on the US print which includes an appearance by Michael Carr as "Dr. Francis B. Gross". European prints are missing all footage of the Doctor and feature additional scenes not in the UK/US print including an interview with plane crash survivors, a psychologist discussing the work of German anti-terrorist forces, footage of a supposed exorcism involving a German clergyman, a sequence where a group of (naked) people eat a placenta at a dinner table, and a bizarre scene where Ohio residents discuss Bigfoot. In addition the UK DVD was cut by 1 min 18 secs by the BBFC to remove footage during a trial scene where a rapist (played by director John Alan Schwartz) films himself as he prepares to attack a woman.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Worst of Faces of Death (1987)
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These days, the Faces of Death movies are fairly redundant, the internet offering up way sicker sights than any VHS release of the '80s. That said, Faces of Death III was pretty pointless from the get go, the creators attempting to pass off badly staged footage as real-life horror. Anyone expecting a dose of extreme nastiness will be sorely disappointed by this lame threequel; part II was almost all genuine, but this one is 99% fake. The end credits state that 'certain scenes have been recreated'. You don't say!
The film's poorly acted scenes include the search for, and trial of, a serial killer, the court case involving grainy video footage of the killer raping and torturing a girl (the film doesn't explain who was holding the camera), drug traffickers shot at by police in the everglades, a parachutist eaten after landing in an alligator farm, a prisoner in El Salvador interrogated and tortured, a bomb disposal gone wrong, a suicide leap from a tall building, and a barracuda biting a diver in the face. The only real content is the obligatory animal slaughterhouse footage and some open heart surgery.
The first two films were suitably abhorrent: this one is also repellent, but only because it doesn't deliver what it promises. The raison d'etre of this kind of film is to show the viewer the harsh reality of life and death, so what's the point if virtually none of it is genuine?
1/10, with a very generous extra point for having an editor named Wayne Smegma II (his name's probably as fake as everything else, but it made me laugh).
The film's poorly acted scenes include the search for, and trial of, a serial killer, the court case involving grainy video footage of the killer raping and torturing a girl (the film doesn't explain who was holding the camera), drug traffickers shot at by police in the everglades, a parachutist eaten after landing in an alligator farm, a prisoner in El Salvador interrogated and tortured, a bomb disposal gone wrong, a suicide leap from a tall building, and a barracuda biting a diver in the face. The only real content is the obligatory animal slaughterhouse footage and some open heart surgery.
The first two films were suitably abhorrent: this one is also repellent, but only because it doesn't deliver what it promises. The raison d'etre of this kind of film is to show the viewer the harsh reality of life and death, so what's the point if virtually none of it is genuine?
1/10, with a very generous extra point for having an editor named Wayne Smegma II (his name's probably as fake as everything else, but it made me laugh).
- BA_Harrison
- May 26, 2021
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