Faces of Death III (1985)

Faces of Death III (1985). 1h 31m | Not Rated

“These days, the Faces of Death movies are fairly redundant, the internet offering up way sicker sights than any VHS release of the u0026#39;80s. That said, Faces of Death III was pretty pointless from the get go, the creators attempting to pass off badly staged footage as real-life horror. Anyone expecting a dose of extreme nastiness will be sorely disappointed by this lame threequel; part II was almost all genuine, but this one is 99% fake. The end credits state that u0026#39;certain scenes have been recreatedu0026#39;. You donu0026#39;t say!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe filmu0026#39;s poorly acted scenes include the search for, and trial of, a serial killer, the court case involving grainy video footage of the killer raping and torturing a girl (the film doesnu0026#39;t explain who was holding the camera), drug traffickers shot at by police in the everglades, a parachutist eaten after landing in an alligator farm, a prisoner in El Salvador interrogated and tortured, a bomb disposal gone wrong, a suicide leap from a tall building, and a barracuda biting a diver in the face. The only real content is the obligatory animal slaughterhouse footage and some open heart surgery.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe first two films were suitably abhorrent: this one is also repellent, but only because it doesnu0026#39;t deliver what it promises. The raison du0026#39;etre of this kind of film is to show the viewer the harsh reality of life and death, so whatu0026#39;s the point if virtually none of it is genuine?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e1/10, with a very generous extra point for having an editor named Wayne Smegma II (his nameu0026#39;s probably as fake as everything else, but it made me laugh).”