Overview
- Faces of Death, which opened in theaters Friday, reframes the 1978 shockumentary as a thriller about a content moderator who finds videos that may be real murders.
- Early reviews say the film trades heavy gore for a sharper look at algorithms and how constant violent clips numb viewers.
- Director Daniel Goldhaber drew on his own stint as a content moderator and the team built working subreddits to make the online world feel real.
- Barbie Ferreira leads as Margot and Dacre Montgomery plays Arthur, with critics highlighting his eerie turn and a tense cat‑and‑mouse dynamic.
- Ferreira said she watched disturbing old internet videos to prepare and needed months of light fare afterward to shake the effects.