The cult classic 1978 horror film “Faces of Death” is getting an updated remake with “Euphoria” star Barbie Ferreira and “Stranger Things” alum Dacre Montgomery starring…
Get ready to stare into the “Faces of Death” again.
Barbie Ferreira — best know for her starring role on “Euphoria” as well as Jordan Peele’s “Nope” — and Dacre Montgomery — former star of “Stranger Things” — will serve as co-leads for an upcoming remake of the shocking horror classic from the 1980s.
Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber, who previously teamed together on the films “Cam” and “How to Blow Up a Pipeline,” are writing and directing the updated film.
The original “Faces of Death” was released in 1978 by John Alan Schwartz and it was presented as a documentary hosted by a pathologist named Francis B. Gross who presented gruesome and horrific death scenes involving both humans and animals.
The film was presented as real-life footage of these traumatic death scenes being carried out but in reality the majority of the movie was staged.
Following the release of “Faces of Death,” the film received overwhelmingly negative reviews but the movie started gaining a cult following in the 1980s, particularly after the explosion of home video. Copies of “Faces of Death” got passed around like an illegal movie as if the film had been banned in multiple countries as suggested during the fake documentary.
The remake is expected to tackle a similar approach but through a different and more modern lens.
“Faces of Death was one of the first viral video tapes, and we are so lucky to be able to use it as a jumping off point for this exploration of cycles of violence and the way they perpetuate themselves online,” Mazzei and Goldhaber said in a statement.
After “Faces of Death” was first released, several sequels followed as the films started to gain an even bigger following, although the scenes tried to get much more elaborate and by extension ended up quite ridiculous at moments.
Now it appears Mazzei and Goldhaber are taking a slightly more serious tone to “Faces of Death” with Ferreira and Montgomery already on board to star in the project.
