Faces of Death
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The new film revolves around a female moderator of a YouTube-like website whose job is to weed out offensive and violent content and who herself is recovering from a serious trauma, who stumbles across a group that is re-creating the murders from the original film. But in the story primed for the digital age of online misinformation, the question is: Are the murders real or fake?
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Filmed in New Orleans.
This marks the acting debut of singer Charli XCX.
Filmmaker Isa Mazzei reportedly has some experience from the darker sides of the net, having worked as a camgirl in the past. It was chronicled in her memoir, which ultimately served as the inspiration for her 2018 movie Cam.
Written and directed by filmmaking duo Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber (duo behind 2018's Cam), who were quoted saying: "Faces of Death was one of the first viral video tapes, and we are so lucky to be able to use it as a jumping off point for this exploration of cycles of violence and the way they perpetuate themselves online."
It's said that the studio is looking to make this more of a pschological film rather than a slasher.
The studio hopes that this will launch a new franchise.
A remake was originally announced in 2006 with J.T. Petty (Mimic: Sentinel, The Burrowers) attached to direct, and who was reportedly still attached until 2013.
This is a remake of the 1978 faux documentary about a pathologist exploring death via footage culled from around the world. The original featured several clips showcasing a variety of deaths and while the gruesome imagery was said to be all real, in reality much of it was staged with the use of practical effects. The movie would go on to spawn several sequels and copycats.