Faces of Death V

Faces of Death V (1995)

A direct-to-video compilation of the highlights of the earlier films in the Faces of Death series.

Date of release
1995-10-10
TMDB
3.7 / 10 (21)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Horror, Documentary
Director
John Alan Schwartz

Casting

Interesting facts

Faces of Death is a 1978 American mondo horror film written and directed by John Alan Schwartz, credited under the pseudonyms "Conan Le Cilaire" and "Alan Black" respectively.

Production

The film was written and directed by John Alan Schwartz (credited as "Alan Black" for writing and as "Conan Le Cilaire" for directing). Schwartz also took credit as second unit director, this time as "Johnny Getyerkokov". He also appears in one of the film's segments as the leader of the alleged flesh-eating cult in San Francisco, and has brief appearances in several other movies in this series.

Approximately 60% of the film was real footage purchased from news stations, medical researchers, witnesses to the Flight 182 crash, graphic war footage, graphic autopsies, deleted footage from other documentaries, and/or footage filmed by the actual crew in morgues or on a beach.

Many sequences in the film were recreations of news footage; special effects artist Douglas White stated the producers watched hundreds of hours of news footage and studied crime scene photos to determine whether their effects looked realistic.

With the exception of the slaughterhouse sequence (which uses methods of killing that are long outdated), chicken beheading and African tribe butchering a cow, several scenes of animals were inauthentic: a seal clubbing which featured choreographed clubbing to avoid harming the seals, and a "violent dog fight" that was simply two dogs covered in theater blood playing with dramatic editing and music, whilst a scene showing a monkey being "killed a…

The electric chair execution was achieved by building a fake chair, using toothpaste to emulate saliva, and adding electricity sounds in post-production. Schwartz was inspired to make the scene after reading about electric execution in the southern USA, and was surprised to find it still in practice. He wanted to find a way to film a real chair execution, but none were available during production.

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