This film is the story of my life! Gawd, I have such fond memories of going to old video stores when I was younger trying to find all of these. There were many different versions of cover art for the original 3 films and at the time there were many lesser (but more graphic) "shockumentary" films. Movies like "Traces of Death", "Death Scenes", "The Many Taboos of Death", "Dying", "Executions" and "The Amazing, Shocking Asia" all proved to be much more graphic and sometimes easier to find than the ACTUAL original FOD films.
Faces of Death III was my first exposure to the series, I rented that (on a 2-for-1 deal) with the "Amazing Shocking Asia". I remember FOD 3 had HORRIBLE tracking issues (but I still dubbed it none the less) and Amazing Shocking Asia made me really sick to my stomach and actually scarred me for life! I will NEVER get those images out of my head. Everyone thinks FOD is all real and hardcore and stuff but they haven't seen ANYTHING until they witness one of the other mentioned titles. They were lower budget, so they couldn't film "faux" scenes like FOD could. They had to use ALL REAL stuff and the Asian tapes were always more brutal...I MEAN BRUTAL!
However, I can't wait to obtain this new release, especially for the new features - an interview with the Director?!?!?! Holy crap that's awesome. I'll feel like I'm 13 and I just conned my mom into renting this for me all over again!;)
-Retro Horror Remix