In the publicity for their movie, the creators of the new Faces of Death make all sorts of claims about how their film explores such things as our growing desensitization to violence, whether or not watching violent imagery makes us complicit, and our seemingly ravenous appetite for real-life carnage. They say that they wanted to “hold a mirror up to the toxic media ecosystem we live inside of.”
It all sounds very impressive and very thoughtful. But they give the game away when they describe the film this way: “It is an exploitation of an iconic exploitation film.”