Overview
- Faces of Death, which opens Friday, April 10, recasts the 1978 title as a thriller about a content moderator pulled into violent videos on a TikTok-like app.
- Critics say the new film trades shock gore for a sharp look at algorithms, online voyeurism, and corporate moderation practices.
- Director Daniel Goldhaber drew on his own stint as a content moderator and had the team build working subreddit pages to make the web scenes feel authentic.
- Barbie Ferreira says watching real old internet clips for research left her in a dark headspace that took months to shake.
- Ferreira and Dacre Montgomery spent much of production kept apart by Goldhaber to intensify their late-film cat-and-mouse dynamic.