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FACES OF DEATH II is part of our Vinegar Syndrome Archive collection, celebrating forgotten cinematic oddities from the video store era. This collection was inspired by our own brick & mortar video stores, with locations in Bridgeport, CT, Denver, CO, Toronto, ON, and Pittsburgh, PA.
Unique to this line, each numbered limited edition release will come fitted in a specially designed, bottom loading VHS inspired slipcase, while also including a double-sided poster.
These releases will ONLY be available on our website and at participating indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them. This spot gloss slipcase edition (designed by Steak Mtn.) is strictly limited to 3,333 units. This release may (but probably not) be followed by a standard edition in the future.
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Following a well-needed two-year hiatus, the erudite Dr. Francis B. Gröss returns to further ponder and expose the mysteries of death. Hardly content with his initial morbid surveys of the forbidden, rarely discussed topic of how life ends, he pushes further to show nature's wintry grasp on life, how finality arrives in the boxing ring, and other lethal sights so shockingly primal they beg to be seen. Enthusiastically expanding his sweeping investigations on crime and human atrocities, Gröss paints a shattering and unparalleled portrait of mortality.
Following the unprecedented success of its shocking predecessor, the filmmakers behind Faces of Death created a film even more unsettling in its stark and unflinching realism, offering an even deeper descent into the depravity and savagery of humanity with FACES OF DEATH II (1981). From fatal accidents to the unspeakable cruelty of war, medical experiments, and other abominable acts too heinous to describe, no facet of man’s destruction of his fellow man is left unexplored. Vinegar Syndrome Archive reluctantly brings this even more notorious sequel to 4K UHD and Blu-ray, presented in its fully uncut and uncensored original theatrical version, available for the first time on video in the US, newly restored from its 35mm negative.
directed by: Conan Le Cilaire (aka John Alan Schwartz)
starring: Michael Carr
1981 / 103 min / 1.33:1 / English Mono
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Overall rating: 4.0 / 5 from 4 reviews.
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"Getting the first Faces of Death on 4k - ok, sure! The sequel? That's insane. But so very welcome. It's hard to say that this is a good movie -- it has less merits than the first one, but it does hold its own with shock value and as a slice of American cinematic curiosity."
"Once again we get some horrifying cruelty to animals that no sane person would want to watch. The hardest viewing as with the first one. This one is much lazier in that there is only one main sequence that was scripted and filmed for the movie as near as I can tell. Everything else was bought footage and it very much has an Ed Wood, let's write the script around the footage we have feel. The great thing about the first was the bait and switch, classic to exploitation film, of promising one thing but giving another. The magic trick of making you think it was real is the appeal. This one, with mostly real footage of bodies being removed from varying tragedies, lacks that and makes for a more uncomfortable and unenjoyable experience. Some standout moments still remain such as the Kenny Powers jump covered in detail in the partner label release The Devil at Your Heels. But otherwise, the lack of creativity and effort stand out. Like our host sitting in the courtyard of an Olive Garden and claiming he's in El Salvador. For me, there is no entertainment value in seeing actual cruelty and death. I wanted to see how a sequel could even be done to this one, but I can't say I'm anxious to see another. A great package from Vin Syn, but not a movie I will be anxious to revisit."
"Glad to see the Faces of Death series get new 4k releases, hoping we get the rest as well! Brings back so many childhood memories!"
"Excellent"
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