5/5 WATCH NOW, DIE LATER............................
  by George Carabetsos (Chicago Ridge, IL USA)
Faces of Death 4 is a update classic. This one focus on modern atrocities. Once again we get some fake scenes mix with real. But the film does get your attention. Killer tiger, electric chair mayhem, and we can't forget the beginning body in the oven. The thing I don't get, is way they switch the pig slaughterhouse scene. Instead we got a bunch of beetles eating the leftover flesh from the bones. But still this, and the first is a must own.

1/5 Oh Please
  by Mark A. Woodman (Dubuque, Iowa U.S.A.)
Do not waste your money or your time. All I can say about this video, as well as the rest of the F.O.D. videos is W.A.L.O.C. Please ... get a copy of the original Frankenstein, it has more realistic death scenes.

1/5 Why bother about this junk?
  by Jens Weinrich (Germany, Frankfurt)
Hey,

I saw this so-called Faces of Death IV on VHS many years ago and I just think it is revolting. It is a another disgusting piece of gore-cinema, because 99% of this stuff is handmade, I mean faked, and not even good.
You can not kill a man in a gory cult ritual with a pocket knife, neither you cut so easy off his nose. This whole movie stinks. It is just unbearable boring, just a few scenes are a little entertaining as the magican gets "killed" in a freak fire, head squashing accident (the fake head is great) and the hostage situation where the guy highly exaggerates his acting ability by far.

But anyway it's just a garbage bag, not entertaining, not really scary and not near as good as it's reputation...

File-it-forget it!

jw

2/5 Another opinion
  by Kane Mercer (Canberra Australia)
This film is comprised mostly of footage that is re-enacted or is lifted from TV/Other documentaries. I give it two stars because some of the special effects that are used in the re-enacted footage are pretty cool. Having said that, some of the re-enactments are complette garbage, such as the weeding party massacre - It's the most unrealistic drive-by shooting sequence I have ever seen. Also the sequence that shows that Latino guy being beaten up by cops is so obviously fake -it made me laugh. Oh and the sequence of the schizophrenic man holding the nurse hostage plays like some bad movie - oh wait this is some bad movie.

The Narrator Dr. Lewis Flelis (really some actor dude portraying a doctor - rather badly) is annoying. His commentary of what you are seeing vacilates between poor attempts at ill-advised black humour and ill- informed social commentray. He tries hard to pull spooky faces in between these sequences, but comes across as being more towards prozac dependent than genuinely spooky. I personally liked Francis B Gross from the first three films better, but apparanetly he died.

The special features of the DVD consist of trailers for FOD 1 and FOD 4 (which is just a mish-mash of footage from the film with some music playing in the background) and the cover art for the Gogon video FOD series. In short little of interest on this front.

This films' main selling point is that it has been banned in X number of countries. This is faint praise/ Counties like England and Australia ban anything that isn't about some prancing lord' who falls in love on a ship and freezes to death when it sinks.
If possible rent before you buy.

2/5 Another Viewpoint
  by Kane Mercer (Canberra Australia)
If you are reading this chances are that you have an interest in Mondo films, and if this is the case, you've read volumes about the Faces of Death series already.

This film was refused certification in Australia, making it very hard to find, so I ordered it from Amazon. I saw the original Faces of Death when I was young and I was captivated, this 4th entry in the series is somewhat of a disappointment. A majority of the footage is either (a) re-enacted or (b) stock footage that could be found on other films or stuff you would see on TV. Having said that - the special effects for the re-enatced footage are quite decent and it is for this reason I give this film 2 stars. I found found myself laughing at some of the footage because it was obviously fake, like the girl being run over by the speed boat, or the woman who was attacked by a large leech.

Naturally the new presenter/Narator, Dr. Lewis Flelis is not a real doctor, just an actor overatcing to the extreme. His monologues throughout the various scenes vacilate between poorly informed social comentary and black comedy. He breaks out his guitar at the end of the film to sing a song called "Faces of Death" while footage is displayed of a band stand collapse in which band members are crushed and killed. This song is nothing short of woeful, but you must see it to believe it if you can handle mondo films.I personally liked Francis B. Gross better, but apparantly he died.

This film's main selling point is that it is banned in X amount of countries. Trust me, this is faint praise - as countries like England ban or censor anything that isn't about some prancing fag on a ship who meets his true love and freezes to death at the end.

This film, by comparison to the first three films in the series was a disappointment to me. The links betwen the scenes were far weaker, and it plays like a prozac dependent man trying to scare you with his bad acting and misinformed "medical" opinions.

The extra features are also non existant with two trailers and some cover art for the Gorgon Faces of Death series.