A monologue into the void: Cult movies

# 3 Faces of Death (1978) Shockumentary, mondo movies, mockumentary, newsreel footage, real life horror, video nasties, autopsy, famine, holocaust, slaughterhouse, vegetarian, satire, cults, accidents, fake, classical music, unethical, rubbernecking.

And now for something different. Even though most of this movie is fake, it still to this day packs one hell of a punch. Possibly the nastiest movie of all the "Video nasties", as they were called in the UK. This movie is not really my cup of tea, as it also features some real life horror in the shape of news footage. But still it is an interesting and influential movie. And it certainly was one of the most talked about "Have you seen it?" movies of the VHS era of violent movies.

• John Alan Schwartz
• (as Conan Le Cilaire)

• John Alan Schwartz
• (as Alan Black)

(in credits order)

• Michael Carr
• Dr. Francis B. Gröss

Rest of cast listed alphabetically

• 
  
• Samuel Berkowitz
• Self
• 
  
• Mary Ellen Brighton
• Self - Suicide Victim
• Thomas Noguchi
• Self - Chief Medical Examiner Coroner
• Adolf Hitler
• Self(archive footage) (uncredited)
• Benito Mussolini
• Self(archive footage) (uncredited)
• 
  
• John Alan Schwartz
• Leader of Flesh Eating Cult(uncredited)
• 
  
• Vern Stierman
• Narrator(uncredited)

• Rosilyn T. Scott
• producer
• William B. James
• executive producer
• Herbie Lee
• associate producer

• Gene Kauer

• Michael Golden

• Laurl Crushman
• Lorraine Kirsten
• (as Ivon Simoné)
• James Roy
• Hank Simon
• lead editor

• Allan A. Apone
• special makeup effects artist (uncredited)
• Peter Knowlton
• assistant makeup artist (uncredited)

• Derek Walsch
• production manager

• John Alan Schwartz
• assistant director (as Johnny Getyerkokov)

• Spary Dauterman
• sound effects editor
• Manny Samaniego
• assistant

• Adal Aboul-Hosn
• contributing camera operator
• Alberti Cerna
• camera operator: second unit
• Stephan Crowder
• camera operator
• Daniel De LaSantos
• camera operator: second unit
• Dimetri Fermo
• director of photography: Europe
• Don Gilberg
• camera operator: second unit
• Michael Golden
• director of photography: America
• Shelly Kurtz
• contributing camera operator
• Phillippe La Croix
• contributing camera operator
• Lester Markham
• contributing camera operator
• Wolfgang Offenbach
• camera operator
• Andrew Winston
• contributing camera operator

• Gary Finlan
• assistant editor (as Sean MacDonald)

• Michael Carr
• creative consultant (as Dr. Frances B. Gröss)
• Andrew P. Kirkham
• dvd producer [gb]

• John Freeman
• acknowledgment of still photographs: British Museum Photo

• Runtime
• 1h 45m(105 min) 1h 49m(109 min) (home video) 1h 23m (83 min) (Cut theatrical) (Germany)
• Sound mix
• Mono
• Color
• Color
• Aspect ratio
• 1.85 : 1
• Laboratory
• FotoKem Laboratory, Burbank (CA), USA
• Negative Format
• 16 mm35 mm
• Cinematographic Process
• Spherical
• Printed Film Format
• 35 mm(blow-up)

Here´s part of a movie review (not mine) from IMDB user SpelingError to illustrate how much of a nasty punch this movie packs:

"2/10

(...)This awful disaster of a movie is distractingly violent, super offensive, and full of shock value. I can safely say that this is one of the worst movies ever made. This documentary really has no plot. It's just a montage of people and animals dying gruesome and bloody deaths and the narrator also gives disturbing commentary detailing how they died.

Also, there is one thing that really infuriates me about this movie more than anything else. It is that the movie often plays goofy and uplifting music while it shows footage of people being brutally murdered (also, most of the deaths displayed here are in fact real). Most of those people died brutal deaths here and it downright disgusted me how the movie uses the goofy music to make them sound like some kind of a sick joke. However, the movie actually offended me in this case. It proves that the directors clearly don't care at all for any of the people or animals who brutally died in this movie. This clearly has some of the worst, unfitting music ever in cinema history." (...)