Margot Romero works as a content moderator and comes across a series of online videos that make her uneasy. They look real and appear to show people being killed. Before long, she discovers that the footage bears a striking resemblance to scenes from the legendary Faces of Death series, which emerged in the late ’70s and continued through the ’80s, movies that claimed to contain real murders. She needs to find out what’s going on.

For this writer, the original films were the stuff of legend – shocking VHS viewing we stumbled upon at far too young an age. It felt forbidden, but we had access to it, and it left its mark on a young boy’s psyche. In that sense, perhaps it wasn’t so different from social media today.

Faces of Death 2026 isn’t a remake, but instead mixes modern technology with the myths surrounding the original series in a fresh, energetic way. Whether you know the original films or not, this is a smorgasbord of slasher thrills.

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