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30th anniversary BluRay edition: Director commentary track is a fraud !!


Well we all know that the director's name, Conan Le Cilaire, is a pseudonym, and that the real guy's name is John Alan Schwartz:

https://theoriginalvangoghsearanthology.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/johnalanschwartzquestions-for-interview.pdf

Nice interview, plus I could finally put a face on the man behind the most notorious shockumentary of all time. I also found that he and his wife are now posting movie critics on YouTube:

http://www.shalomlife.com/culture/15845/an-interview-with-two-jews-on-film/

Looking at some of their YouTube videos I noticed the distinctive voice of Schwartz. A slow, high-pitch, nasal sounding voice.

Problem is, I recently listened to the director's commentary track on the 30th anniversary BluRay edition of Faces of Death, and the guy who is supposed to be the director (presented to us at the beginning of the commentary track as "Conan Le Cilaire"), well this guy doesn't have the same voice than Schwartz at all. He seems younger, and he speaks more fluidly than the YouTube Schwartz. Their voices have nothing in common. Nothing at all.

So my question is, who is this mysterious guy revealing behind the scenes facts and sharing shooting memories on that commentary track? I mean we are thirty years later, we all know the movie is mostly fake, so why involve a "fake" director to share some fake memories instead of using the real John Alan Schwartz? The only reason I bought the damned BluRay in the first place was because of that commentary track. Since Faces of Death had such an impact on me and my friends when we were young, I was curious to finally hear the real behind the scenes stories by the creator.

But instead I found out the guy speaking is not John Alan Schwartz.

Thirty years later, even unmasked, Faces of Death is still fake. Crap.

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