Faces of Death (2026) poster
2026 · horror · slasher

Faces of Death

Directed by Daniel Goldhaber1h 37m2026
ElsewhereIMDb6.51kMetacritic63
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / slasher, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A woman, employed as a website content moderator, comes across a series of violent videos reproducing death scenes from a film.

Our read · Faces of Death (2026) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · slasher entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a meta, self-aware horror about a content moderator confronting recreated death videos.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena rollercoastergrips by minute 4attention 4/5earns its length
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Skip it tonightYou dislike graphic gore, violence, nudity or meta horror about real death imagery.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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