Daniel Goldhaber’s “Faces of Death” remake, which has been ready to go since 2024 and was given a hard R rating by the MPA for “strong bloody violence, gore, sexual content, nudity, language, and drug use,” has been in a state of limbo for a few years now.
Shot in April 2023, Goldhaber’s film, a “modern” take on the premise of the 1978 cult classic, might finally be coming out, as Dread Central is reporting that a nationwide release on April 10 has been set up for the film. Not just that, but there’s a teaser trailer now available on some random YouTube account.
I know, sketchy, right? Apparently, before you click on that video, there’s a warning that the teaser trailer either features or appears to feature people dying in horrific ways. In fact, the distributor behind the film—whose identity remains unknown—released the teaser via a random channel called sportsfan3456.
Now, is this legit? The folks over at Dread Central have confirmed that it is. The footage shown is nightmarish and vague, and doesn’t reveal much about the film, only hinting that it’s going to be messed up.
Much like Goldhaber’s last few films, “Faces of Death” is said to have a very small budget, having been made for only $7M. Almost three years later, the film apparently now has a distributor.
Based on what I’ve heard, Legendary, who might have backed out of the project, were not happy with how “Faces” turned out, despite paying for reshoots and the film testing very well. The claim was that the film was too “experimental,” one person told me, and not the film Legendary expected Goldhaber to deliver.
What’s even more curious is that “Faces” was actually supposed to premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in 2025, but Legendary pulled it without explanation. This, I’m told, led to a communication breakdown between Goldhaber and Legendary.
It has come to the point where Goldhaber has set “Faces” aside and started work on his next film, which will be set inside the German rave scene and star “Faces” actress Charli XCX.
“Faces of Death” stars Dacre Montgomery, Barbie Ferreira, Josie Totah, and—her again—Charli XCX. It follows a female moderator of a YouTube-like site as she sorts through content unfit for the platform. She comes across a group on the website that appears to be re-enacting the murders from the original film. However, given the digital age of widespread misinformation online, are these murders real or deepfakes?
Goldhaber turned a lot of heads with 2022’s taut, tense, and terrific “How to Blow Up a Pipeline.” I was also a big fan of his 2018 breakout, “Cam”—if you haven’t seen that surreal, almost nightmare-like film, I highly recommend streaming it on Netflix.