I really enjoyed this. Super fascinating way to tie into the original movies. With a cast that definitely understood the assignment. Offering a modern exploration of what the original touched on. Would Recommend

Faces of Death 2026 feels like a very low-budget movie. To be fair, it is not completely badly made, but the writing is weak, especially before the final act. For most of the movie, there is really nothing that stands out. It just moves along without giving you much to hold on to. Then the final act arrives, and that is where they finally make something out of it. That is the sweet spot. The movie suddenly has more energy, more madness, and a clearer reason to exist. The acting is mixed. Ferreira really goes all in, and you can feel her pushing the material as far as she can. Montgomery, on the other hand, pushes it a little too far at times. Not a good movie by any means, but the final act saves it from being completely forgettable.

Trying to remake or reimagine Faces of Death was always going to be a difficult balancing act. The original gained notoriety through pure grimy shock value, urban legend status, and the uneasy feeling that you probably shouldn’t be watching it. This new version tries to layer an actual dramatic narrative over that concept, but in doing so strips away the only reason the title still carries any weight in the first place. Instead of feeling transgressive or disturbing, Faces of Death just feels flat. The attempts at character drama are painfully forced, and the main cast spend so much time behaving irrationally or obnoxiously that it becomes difficult to care whether they survive any given scene. The film seems convinced it’s saying something profound about society’s obsession with violence and online media, but it never digs deeper than surface-level commentary you’ve already seen done better in dozens of other horror films. Worse still, the shock factor simply isn’t there. For a film carrying the Faces of Death name, the deaths themselves feel strangely tame and unimaginative. Modern horror audiences have seen far nastier, more inventive, and more psychologically upsetting material elsewhere, so the film ends up in an awkward middle ground where it’s too polished and self-aware to feel exploitative, but too shallow to work as an actual horror drama. There’s a version of this concept that could have worked, especially if it leaned harder into mockumentary realism or internet-age voyeurism, but what we get instead is a sluggish, irritating experience that mistakes edgy branding for atmosphere. By the end, I wasn’t shocked or disturbed. I was just bored and checking how much runtime was left. If you liked…American Sweatship, 8mm, Broadcast Signal Intrusion

Meh. It's watchable, but barely. The story started out promising, but the final act was disappointing. The characters were not likeable, so there was nothing to root for. The killings were nothing even close to the original FOD. This was nothing more than a serial killer slasher movie trying to ride the coat tails of a dead franchise. It's not a reboot, or sequel and only name-drops FOD.

I watched this because I thought the plot was good, but I found some scenes ridiculous and it was a boring, pointless production. The acting, in particular, is very artificial. The script is different, and that's nice, but they couldn't pull it off. The effects are passable. Is it watchable? I think it's a waste of time. Watch it if you have nothing else to watch. Otherwise, it's not really watchable.