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I've mixed feeling about Faces of Death.
It a way they were the last nail in an all ready dying genre (Mondo films) - they led the way for a ton of souless crap - Traces of death/Death Scenes or any othe combo of films with death in the title.
I still think that FOD does still hold some of the charm and naivety of the old school Mondo film - who cannot appreciate Dr Gross' search for the meaning of life and Death.
As you said the films are a mixture of faked scenes and real ones - I think the fact they tried to pass reinacted or set up scenes as real is one of the reasons I like it.
Its been a while since I've seen the series but in the 1st one, alll the executions are fake. The gas chamber one was an employee of the production company. The monkey brains is fake too.
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