The narrator at the beginning of this video says "This incredibly expensive, often brilliant, always nauseating piece of video artistry is not part of the Faces of Death series, and that they (the producers) have never represented it as such" - I don't know where to begin with this one?
Just the simple fact that no one involved with this takes any on-screen credit - except for stupid a$$ pseudonyms like "Damian Gravenhorse" This video is nothing more that grainy black-and-white, high generation, silent footage of old cannibalism documentaries, some of it must date back to the 1920s. The audio is so clear though, that if you listen carefully, you can actually hear the off-screen narrator leaning back in his chair, and you can hear him BELCHING... Right before he starts babbling about there not being any "religious or cultural reasons behind cannibalism", you can hear *urrrp* Now this is a high quality documentary indeed...
In one of the sequences, we hear the producer telling the narrator to "show some death" and "switch the bloody footage" - I guess they were trying to be funny, and failing miserably. The narration often times doesn't have anything to do with what's going on on screen (during the tattoo scene) and it is often times drowned out by some prerecorded Burundi inspired tribal drumming. Early on in the video, we see a New Guinea bushman getting a bone stuck though his nose, then we plod through about 45 minutes of similar but unrelated footage, then we see the same bushman getting the same bone stuck though his nose again. Did they think it was so interesting and exciting that they had to show it twice? Then, for no apparent reason, the video then shows us about five minutes of stock car racing crashes, which if I remember correctly was the only colour footage in this entire video, before we go back to watching an episode of, what the video refers to as: "Candid Cannablism". Hilarious, just absolutely hilarious.
This is actually available under several different titles: "Death Faces IV", "Death Faces", "Beyond Reality", "Dying: Last Seconds of Life" (and it sucks under any title ) Under the title "Dying: last seconds of Life" they had to alter the introductory dialog to omit the original title: "the sickening reality of Death Faces", it was changed to just simply "the sickening reality". But in the rest of the video they still referred to it as "Death Faces IV". It gets even better: when I first saw this one on video, under the title "Death Faces IV", (I was tricked into seeing this TWICE!) I let the tape keep playing once this was over, and there was an old unidentifiable western at the end of the tape. They couldn't even afford blank tape they had to record over some old western? This was followed by a sequel!
Just the simple fact that no one involved with this takes any on-screen credit - except for stupid a$$ pseudonyms like "Damian Gravenhorse" This video is nothing more that grainy black-and-white, high generation, silent footage of old cannibalism documentaries, some of it must date back to the 1920s. The audio is so clear though, that if you listen carefully, you can actually hear the off-screen narrator leaning back in his chair, and you can hear him BELCHING... Right before he starts babbling about there not being any "religious or cultural reasons behind cannibalism", you can hear *urrrp* Now this is a high quality documentary indeed...
In one of the sequences, we hear the producer telling the narrator to "show some death" and "switch the bloody footage" - I guess they were trying to be funny, and failing miserably. The narration often times doesn't have anything to do with what's going on on screen (during the tattoo scene) and it is often times drowned out by some prerecorded Burundi inspired tribal drumming. Early on in the video, we see a New Guinea bushman getting a bone stuck though his nose, then we plod through about 45 minutes of similar but unrelated footage, then we see the same bushman getting the same bone stuck though his nose again. Did they think it was so interesting and exciting that they had to show it twice? Then, for no apparent reason, the video then shows us about five minutes of stock car racing crashes, which if I remember correctly was the only colour footage in this entire video, before we go back to watching an episode of, what the video refers to as: "Candid Cannablism". Hilarious, just absolutely hilarious.
This is actually available under several different titles: "Death Faces IV", "Death Faces", "Beyond Reality", "Dying: Last Seconds of Life" (and it sucks under any title ) Under the title "Dying: last seconds of Life" they had to alter the introductory dialog to omit the original title: "the sickening reality of Death Faces", it was changed to just simply "the sickening reality". But in the rest of the video they still referred to it as "Death Faces IV". It gets even better: when I first saw this one on video, under the title "Death Faces IV", (I was tricked into seeing this TWICE!) I let the tape keep playing once this was over, and there was an old unidentifiable western at the end of the tape. They couldn't even afford blank tape they had to record over some old western? This was followed by a sequel!
