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Faces Of Death Shows Its Face In Theaters This April If you don’t know what Faces of Death is — and hey, despite how old I am, I didn’t even know until recently — it’s a time capsule of the early video rental market, the kind of thing that could only happen in a young industry dominated by mom and pop VHS shops that could be stocking anything in the shadows (or behind a beaded curtain in some cases). It was the ultimate forbidden fruit, a salacious clamshell with an ominous logo and a grinning skull, but little else besides the rumors about it: was it really possible to rent a snuff film? No, not really. That kind of product would have been illegal. Faces Of Death originally opened in theaters in 1978, an alleged compilation of found footage depicting war violence, gruesome accidents, and animal attacks. Like the gimmicky William Castle flicks of the early 60s, it rode entirely on shock to sell tickets, and claimed everything its audience saw was real. It was not, and though this kind of scheme was passe in cinemas by the late 70s, it found new life on home video. Countless teenagers across America sneaked into rental stores to pluck this naughty thing, […] The post Faces Of Death Shows Its Face In Theaters This April appeared first on PopGeeks.com Forum | Indie Games, Movies, TV, Tabletop & Comics.

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