A woman, employed as a website content moderator, comes across a series of violent videos reproducing death scenes from a film.
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Faces of Death (2026) reimagines the infamous 1978 shockumentary as a modern horror-thriller where content moderator Margot Romero (Barbie Ferreira) discovers viral videos mimicking the original film's graphic death scenes, blurring real-time murders with online fiction.
She teams with filmmaker Arthur Spevak (Dacre Montgomery) to investigate, joined by influencer Samantha (Josie Totah), Josh (Jermaine Fowler), and Gabby (Charli XCX) in a digital-age paranoia spiral.
Daniel Goldhaber directs from a script co-written with Isa Mazzei (CamCam), shot in New Orleans for $7.4M (2023) with pickups in 2024; it updates the "is it real?" hook for social media distrust.
IFC Films and Shudder release it wide in U.S. theaters April 10 after years of delays; trailers promise uncensored extremity while teasing authenticity debates.