Give me a little insight

Some of it is pure curiosity, like people who slow down in the car at the scene of an accident...why do people do that?

I'll tell you, for same reason, we are a morbid race by design and want to see/look at things we know we will not like, then moan about it after (often but not always).

Some of it is just to say you have seen it, not to be left out.

Also, for me, if a film is banned, I make a point of watching it. usually after I have watched it I think what a pile of $£*% that was lol, but I am against cencorship as a rule.

It is my right to watch what I like. No one person or group of people have the right to tell me what I can and cannot watch in my opinion. So i watch it.

There are many many reasons, some would make sense to you, others maybe not, just as I may question why you like a certain type of film.

Hope that helped you.

Let it ride...

In the real world there are a uncountable number of groups of people. Each group has a different taste in entertainment.

Musicwise. You have kids who listen to metal all day and their parents cant understand why. Then you have people who listen to country for days on end, while their friends just dont get it.

Its all just a matter of preference. Some people like to watch porn, and some like comedies. Some like salsher flicks and others want thrillers or action. Same as why people would waste hundereds of dollars to watch a set of 20 some cars drive in a small oval for hours. I personally don't see the pleasure in watching NASCAR.

I suppose its the sense of shock that people want that draws them to the FoD series. I personally like that sense of believing its real. I want to see the otherside of our existence. I mean if you were told you could witness something beyond your imagination... would you?

I consider "Faces of Death" to be a cult movie phenomenon. Therefore, as a cult movie fanatic i treasure it as the classic it really is. Even if this movie really is the pioneer example of its kind and the most publicly known and talked about movie in the genre you should know that there are definitive differences between "Faces of Death" and the later movies of the genre such as "Traces of Death". This movie is fake.

Wow, did i drop a bomb there? Well to be honest everyone knows that "Faces of Death" is nothing but a marvelously well executed marketing scam. Therefore you should bare in mind that this actually is not at all the dark and morbid piece of crap you might think it is. It is actually just a pretty tame horror flick with an provocative layout.

However to answer your question I find the genre overall to be both fascinating and repulsive at the same time. Curiosity mixed with the excitement of taboo and the adrenaline of pushing yourself to the limit. It really is the final frontier of horror because it delivers what no ordinary horror movie can, pure and authentic, real life horror. It might be a cheap and exploitive way of fulfilling ones urge for excitement but in some ways it does resemble a drug in its efficiency. Some people throw themselves out of airplanes, some people climb mountains and some people watch frightening movies to get their adrenalin pumping, its a question of taste and maybe even coincidence. Either way it is practically the same drug and urge.

If you look back through history you can see that this have been with us all along. We had the gladiators slaughtering each other in front of a bloodthirsty audience, we had quite a few public executions and now we watch it on film instead. With the internet we even enter a new era.

I like the genre but would never sit down and watch a whole 90minute movie of the stuff, with the exception of "Faces of Death". I guess i would get to sad and mentally exhausted by it. So bottom line, fascinating genre but definitely provocative and probably not very healthy in large and frequent amounts.







geeks with attitude!

I think its simply that we are built to learn, so when we get an opportunity to see something that rarely happens we instinctively look, maybe so we can learn how to not fall victim to the same thing.

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I remember this Faces of Death series was really popular during the mid-to-late '80s, when home video was becoming the norm. Only saw some of one, because I couldn't get how people would actually watch real death scenes--that was just sick and disgusting as hell to me, and other teens in y high school would talk about it--someone told me about some monkey's head getting beat in, and its brain eaten--some sick s*** like that. That was one trend I was glad to see go.

I was a kid in the 80s and we had a mom and pop video store that was within bike riding distance. This VHS was one of the ones that I always saw in the horror isle, but my friends and I would never rent it because of its reputation. When we finally did, it was a big deal. There was no internet to look things up on back then, so at that age we all thought it was real.

As an adult, it’s a nostalgic time capsule oddity, but I will say that it is interesting how these films were born out of the earlier mondo movies and their children were the gore websites of the early 2000s. Also, having a narrator named Francis B. Gross is pretty damn funny too.