Ratings: 6.3/10
Runtime: 1h 37min
Genres: Horror
Director: Daniel Goldhaber
Writer: Isa Mazzei, Daniel Goldhaber
Cast: Barbie Ferreira, Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah
Language: English
Daniel Goldhaber doesn’t treat Faces of Death 2026 like a cheap nostalgia grab good. He tears the old shock formula apart and rebuilds it into something colder uglier and way more nerve rattling. The film follows a crew of online investigators who stumble into a digital swamp of violent underground footage corrupted livestreams and anonymous killers feeding off internet fame. Sounds familiar? Maybe. However Goldhaber pushes the idea further dragging viewers through static soaked chatrooms and flickering neon back alleys that feel damp with paranoia. The cinematography bites hard. Grainy reds smear across cramped apartments while harsh blue phone screens light exhausted faces at 3 a.m. Meanwhile the sound design creeps under your skin with broken whispers distorted bass hums and sudden dead silence it works. Too well at times. What really sells the film is its nasty sense of realism. Nobody feels safe. Every performance carries raw fatigue especially during the film’s brutal middle stretch where obsession starts eating people alive. Moreover Goldhaber avoids easy jump scares and instead lets dread simmer slowly like a wire overheating behind a wall. Some viewers will hate its ugliness. Fair enough. Still horror fans searching through Afdah movie, for something mean, modern and psychologically corrosive will probably eat this one up.