Faces of Death II
- 1981
- 1h 25m
IMDb RATING
3.9/10
2.2K
YOUR RATING
This film continues along the same lines as F.O.D. 1 with short scenes of material related to death. Mortuaries, accidents, police work are filmed by television equipment and domestic video ... Read allThis film continues along the same lines as F.O.D. 1 with short scenes of material related to death. Mortuaries, accidents, police work are filmed by television equipment and domestic video cameras.This film continues along the same lines as F.O.D. 1 with short scenes of material related to death. Mortuaries, accidents, police work are filmed by television equipment and domestic video cameras.
James Brady
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Mickey Crowe
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Thomas K. Delahanty
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
John Hinckley Jr.
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Timothy J. McCarthy
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Johnny Owen
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Bobby Pesco
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Lupe Pintor
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Kenny Powers
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Ronald Reagan
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Chuck Strange
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Featured reviews
Not much better than the 1st one, although there were several scenes of dare-devil stunts gone bad. Those are neat. Especially the rocket powered Lincoln Continental. (You just have to see it) I guess a good point to the movie is that not everybody dies. In some of the aforementioned stunt scenes, the drivers just get hurt. Whoooopeeee !!!!!!
Okay...this sequel does have more of the same graphic violence and gore as the first one...and all but 1 scene is real, not faked, but still as a connoisseur of this type of thing, I didn't "enjoy" this one as much, and I use the term enjoy loosely. These things are not enjoyable viewing, but more of curiosity pieces, and as that I found the first one to be a lot better, even if several of the scenes in it were faked. Still, there is animal slaughter, a shootout, an execution by firing squad, some stunts gone awry, and a boxing match that ends in tradgedy, and alas, the filmmakers cashed in even more, as this is not the last entry in the "popular" series. "Fans" of gore and violence will still have plenty to look at in this one and marvel in the brutality.
"Faces of Death 2" is more serious than its predecessor.It has only one fake scene,the rest of the footage is real.The extensive padding includes a nearly ten-minute segment on the death(in the ring)of boxer Johnny Owens,a horrifying Japanese mass dolphin slaughter,a monkey on drugs etc.Some of the worst scenes in this film are actually real footage of corpses in varying degrees of decomposition.I can't recommend this title to anyone but exploitation cinema buffs.Check this stuff out,if you can stomach it.
This is simply a continuation of the first film. More of the same bits of footage thrown together interspersed with a supposed Doctor of Death patronisingly telling you why you should be shocked and think about what you are seeing. Watch it if you had any form of enjoyment or interest from the original.
Faces of Death 2 does not live up to the pure gore style of the first film, which makes it not quite as good. The one thing that makes this film stick out is the amount of real footage. Faces of Death used fake footage to get fame, which was okay because the footage was still so graphic and disturbing that it didn't really matter. But almost all of the footage found in Faces of Death 2 is real, with the exception of a few scenes, such as the drugstore shootout. It has some good stunts gone wrong, a few disgusting animal scenes, and a really brutal boxing match where a heavyweight takes on a man who looks like he hasn't eaten in five years. Faces of Death 2 isn't the best in the series, but it isn't the worst either.
Did you know
- TriviaMuch like the PSA Aircraft crash during the production of the first film, the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan occurred recently before the film's completion, and was included as well.
- Quotes
Dr. Francis B. Gröss: This white blanket of death is called an avalanche.
- Alternate versionsGerman VHS and DVD releases include scenes missing from both the U.S VHS and DVD Prints. One such scene included that is missing from the U.S DVD releases is the attempted assassination of Ronald Regan. The German release is titled as Gesichter Des Todes II (1981).
- ConnectionsEdited into The Worst of Faces of Death (1987)
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Faces of Death Part II
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime
- 1h 25m(85 min)
- Color
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content