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Faces of Death, the Glossary

Faces of Death (later re-released as The Original Faces of Death) is a 1978 American mondo horror film written and directed by John Alan Schwartz, credited under the pseudonyms "Conan Le Cilaire" and "Alan Black" respectively.^[1]

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1978 documentary films
Documentary films about death
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Air traffic control

Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers (people) who direct aircraft on the ground and through a given section of controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled airspace.

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AllMovie

AllMovie (previously All Movie Guide) is an online database with information about films, television programs, television series, and screen actors.

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Anton LaVey

Anton Szandor LaVeyWright, Lawrence – "It's Not Easy Being Evil in a World That's Gone to Hell", Rolling Stone, September 5, 1991: 63–68, 105–16.

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Australian Classification Board

The Australian Classification Board (ACB or CB) is an Australian government statutory body responsible for the classification and censorship of films, video games and publications for exhibition, sale or hire in Australia.

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Autobahn

The Autobahn (German plural) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany.

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Barbie Ferreira

Barbara "Barbie" Seppe Ferreira (born December 14, 1996) is an American actress and model.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is a non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content, etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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Cadaver

A cadaver or corpse is a dead human body.

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Canton High School (Massachusetts)

Canton High School (CHS) is a secondary school in Canton, Massachusetts, United States.

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Canton, Massachusetts

Canton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Cardiac surgery

Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Charli XCX

Charlotte Emma Aitchison (born 2 August 1992), known professionally as Charli XCX, is an English singer and songwriter.

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Christopher Lee

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor, singer, and military officer.

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Cult film

A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following.

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Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to some person, idea, object, movement, or work, often an artist, in particular a performing artist, or an artwork in some medium.

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Dacre Montgomery

Dacre Kayd Montgomery-Harvey (born 22 November 1994) is an Australian actor.

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Daniel Goldhaber

Daniel Goldhaber is an American director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Death anxiety

Death anxiety is anxiety caused by thoughts of one's own death, and is also known as thanatophobia (fear of death).

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Death Scenes

Death Scenes is a 1989 mondo film starring Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey and directed by Nick Bougas. Faces of Death and Death Scenes are American splatter films and mondo films.

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Documentary film

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Dread Central

Dread Central is an American website founded in 2006 that is dedicated to horror news, interviews, and reviews.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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DVD Verdict

DVD Verdict was a judicial-themed website for DVD reviews.

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Electric chair

The electric chair is a specialized device used for capital punishment through electrocution.

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Embalming

Embalming is the art and science of preserving human remains by treating them (in its modern form with chemicals) to forestall decomposition.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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Escondido High School

Escondido High School (EHS) is one of three high schools in the Escondido Union High School District located in Escondido, California.

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Escondido, California

Escondido (Spanish for "Hidden") is a city in San Diego County, California, United States.

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Fandango Media, LLC is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website and their mobile app.

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Film director

A film director is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision.

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Ghost

In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or non-human animal that is believed to be able to appear to the living.

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Gorgon Video

Gorgon Video is a film production and distribution company focusing on the subgenre of extreme horror and "dark documentaries" based in Spain and the United States.

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High-definition video

High-definition video (HD video) is video of higher resolution and quality than standard-definition.

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Horror film

Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.

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Human cannibalism

Human cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.

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In Search of... (TV series)

In Search of... is an American television series that was broadcast weekly from 1977 to 1982, devoted to mysterious phenomena.

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Isa Mazzei

Isa Mazzei is an American screenwriter, author, and film producer.

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Joaquin Murrieta

Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo (sometimes misspelled Murieta or Murietta) (c. 1829 – July 25, 1853), also called the Robin Hood of the West or the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was a Mexican figure of disputed historicity.

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Josie Totah

Josie Totah (born Joseph Jacob Totah; August 5, 2001), formerly known as J. J. Totah, is an American actress.

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Kansas City Kansan

The Kansas City Kansan is an online newspaper that serves Kansas City and other communities in Wyandotte County, Kansas, United States.

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Killing for Culture

Killing for Culture: An Illustrated History of Death Film from Mondo to Snuff (1994) is the first book in the Creation Cinema series and deals with death in film and media.

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Legendary Entertainment

Legendary Entertainment, LLC (also known as Legendary Pictures or simply Legendary) is an American mass media and film production company based in Burbank, California, founded by Thomas Tull.

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Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Simon Nimoy (March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015) was an American actor and director, famed for playing Spock in the Star Trek franchise for almost 50 years.

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Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner

The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner (“DMEC”, formerly the Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner and Department of Coroner) was created in its present form on December 17, 1920, by an ordinance approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, although it has existed in some form since the appointment of the first county coroner in 1850.

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Maximum Exposure

Maximum Exposure (also known as Max X) is an American reality television series showcasing video clips on a variety of subjects.

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Mediumship

Mediumship is the pseudoscientific practice of purportedly mediating communication between familiar spirits or spirits of the dead and living human beings.

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Michael Bolton

Michael Bolotin (born February 26, 1953), known professionally as Michael Bolton, is an American singer and songwriter.

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Mondo film

Mondo film is a subgenre of exploitive documentary films. Faces of Death and Mondo film are mondo films.

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Morgue

A morgue or mortuary (in a hospital or elsewhere) is a place used for the storage of human corpses awaiting identification (ID), removal for autopsy, respectful burial, cremation or other methods of disposal.

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MPI Media Group is an American producer, distributor and licensor of theatrical film and home entertainment.

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Nadir

The nadir is the direction pointing directly below a particular location; that is, it is one of two vertical directions at a specified location, orthogonal to a horizontal flat surface.

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Narration

Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience.

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Obscene Publications Act 1959

The Obscene Publications Act 1959 (7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. 66) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom Parliament that significantly reformed the law related to obscenity in England and Wales.

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Orgy

In modern usage, an orgy is a sex party where guests freely engage in open and unrestrained sexual activity or group sex.

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Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 was a scheduled flight of Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) from Sacramento to San Diego with a stopover at Los Angeles.

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Parachuting

Parachuting and skydiving is a method of transiting from a high point in an atmosphere to the ground or ocean surface with the aid of gravity, involving the control of speed during the descent using a parachute or parachutes.

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Parapsychology

Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, for example, those related to near-death experiences, synchronicity, apparitional experiences, etc.

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Pathology

Pathology is the study of disease and injury.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis.

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Pseudonym

A pseudonym or alias is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym).

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Review aggregator

A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews and ratings of products and services such as films, books, video games, music, software, hardware, and cars.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Screen Anarchy

Screen Anarchy, previously known as Twitch Film or Twitch, is a Canadian English-language website featuring news and reviews of mainly international, independent and cult films.

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Second unit

Second unit is a discrete team of filmmakers tasked with filming shots or sequences of a production, separate from the main or "first" unit.

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Sequel

A sequel is a work of literature, film, theater, television, music, or video game that continues the story of, or expands upon, some earlier work.

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Snuff film

A snuff film, snuff movie or snuff video is a theoretical type of film, produced for profit or financial gain, that shows, or purports to show, scenes of actual homicide. Faces of Death and snuff film are obscenity controversies in film.

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Supernatural

Supernatural refers to phenomena or entities that are beyond the laws of nature.

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SWAT

In the United States, a SWAT (special weapons and tactics) team is a generic term for a police tactical unit.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Thomas Noguchi

is the former Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner for the County of Los Angeles.

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Traces of Death

Traces of Death is a 1993 American mondo film that consists of various scenes of stock footage depicting death and real scenes of violence. Faces of Death and Traces of Death are American exploitation films, American splatter films, mondo films and obscenity controversies in film.

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Umbrella Entertainment

Umbrella Entertainment is an Australian film distribution company that began operating in 2001.

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VHS

The VHS (Video Home System) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC).

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Video nasty

Video nasty is a colloquial term popularised by the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (NVALA) in the United Kingdom to refer to a number of films, typically low-budget horror or exploitation films, distributed on video cassette that were criticised for their violent content by the press, social commentators, and various religious organisations in the early 1980s. Faces of Death and video nasty are obscenity controversies in film.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faces_of_Death

Also known as Faces Of Death 4, Faces of Death 2, Faces of Death 3, Faces of Death 5, Faces of Death 6, Faces of Death Four, Faces of Death II, Faces of Death III, Faces of Death IV, Faces of Death V, Faces of Death VI, The Original Faces of Death, The Worst of Faces of Death.

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Faces of Death, the Glossary

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See also

1978 documentary films

Documentary films about death

Mondo films

References