You don’t have to look at Stranger Issues to know that the Nineteen Eighties had been a scary time. There was Satanic Panic, rumors about poisoned Halloween sweet, and Thatcher and Reagan. However nothing scared children on the playground greater than rumors a couple of film that confirmed real-life pictures of individuals dying. That film was Faces of Demise, and it’s coming again in 2026 to traumatize us yet again.
The primary teaser for the 2026 replace of Faces of Demise remembers these primal fears. The teaser has no narrative and as a substitute options random pictures of horrible issues. A bear drags away a limp man. A truck ranges a bystander. A hammer slams right into a cranium. Between the whimpers of ache and cries for assist, we hear a voice musing about loss of life, asking, “The tip of the start? Or the start of the top?”
The unique Faces of Demise from 1978 was written and directed by John Alan Schwartz and starred Michael Carr as Dr. Francis B. Gröss. Though offered as actual materials, Faces of Demise is in truth fictional, the story of Dr. Gröss sharing his assortment of footage that includes individuals and animals dying. Over the video of every part from automotive accidents to executions to Holocaust scenes, Gröss delivers vaguely philosophical narration in regards to the nature of humanity.
Faces of Demise is a part of the Mondo (Italian for “world”) horror subgenre, exploitation takes on documentary travelogues. The place mainstream travelogues would introduce the viewers to Scandinavian saunas or Japanese kabuki, the Mondo movies presupposed to reveal some nasty or taboo side of a subculture. 1962’s Mondo Cane, thought of one of many progenitors of the subgenre, takes audiences world wide, displaying them animals being slaughtered for meals, Australian girls in swimsuits giving CPR to younger males, and every part in between. Nasty as the fabric will get, an authoritarian narrator describes all of it in excellent calm, serving to the viewers excuse their lust as mental pursuits.
