Friday, October 27, 2006
By: MrDisgusting
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You all remember it, you've all seen it and you've all heard the myths behind it -- but the real truth is that the '70s docs Faces of Death were a hoax... all of them. There was no plot, no substance, nothing all- just death. So how will this be remade? Now we're truly entering the "horror porn" genre, gore for the sake of gore. Read on for the skinny.
Rogue Pictures is bringing back "Faces of Death," a faux-documentary from the 1970s that purported to show actual deaths of humans and animals, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
J.T. Petty is in negotiations to write and direct the remake, which will be produced by Rick Benattar, Susan Montford and Don Murphy of Angry Films.
When the original movie was released in 1978, it showed explicit death scenes and was banned, at least temporarily, in several countries. While the snuff film entered the domain of urban legend, it later was revealed that the human component and some of the animal scenes were faked, and the move became one of the decade's great hoaxes. The movie, which featured a narrator named Dr. Francis B. Gross, went on to become a cult film and spawned five sequels.
The remake would not be a documentary or a faux-documentary but rather a straightforward feature. It would be low-budget horror and a possible franchise, in the tradition of "Saw."
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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