 Originally Posted by LadyOfDarkness
And.....has anyone seen the movie series "Faces Of Death"? It was SUPPOSED to be REAL acts of MURDER on film. I saw the first couple in the series and OMG ......I had nightmares of that poor little monkey with his head stuck in hole in the table in that restaurant while those people sat around it beating him with hammers as he screamed.......until he was dead...then they cut the top of his head off and ate his brains. This was back in the 80's...but I'll never forget it....I wish I never watched it.  It was horrible. That was definately the WORST movie I ever saw. Just wondering if anyone else saw those films?
You'll be glad to hear that the Faces of Death movies were largely put together using fake, staged footage. There were bits and pieces of real documentary material - an airplane exploding, a girl jumping from a building, a parachute failing to open, rotting corpses in catacombs, autopsies, soldiers shooting each other in WW2, etc. - but the majority of the "big, gross scenes" were done using special effects. This includes the monkey scene (the money was genuinely terrified during the shooting of the scene, but they didn't actually hit it or kill it), the police shoot-out, the electric chair sequence, the "leaked" footage of Satanic sacrifices, and the crocodile attack.
I suppose you could look at it as "re-enactments", like on TV crime programmes or whatever.
There are, however, a lot of never videos and websites that DO have a lot more real death footage - there's the Traces of Death video series, as well as Faces of Gore. But DO NOT take that as a recommendation. Both of these are absolutely sickening, mostly because they have voice overs that actually make fun of the victims. Watching them really makes think - what if these poor people were my family or friends, and thousands of assholes were sitting around laughing at their deaths?
Faces of Gore is probably the worst of the bunch, because it's much more grotesque - the director only picked footage that was extremely bloody, gory and disturbing such as foetuses, burned bodies, etc., as opposed to Traces of Death where it's mostly stuff like boxing accidents, car crashes, suicides, etc. But, on the other hand, you don't see anyone actually die in Faces of Gore, it's just aftermath footage of people who are already dead, whereas in Traces you see people die over and over in slow motion.
These are NOT nice films, and I do not advise you to seek them out. Even I regret seeing these movies. 
Of course, there are also supposedly "snuff movies" where people are actually killed for the the purpose of making a movie (unlike the real death films, which are just collections of documentary footage). Unless you count stuff like Taleban execution videos or the Dnepropetrovsk video, no police force has ever found a commercially available snuff movie, so they may not even exist.
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And I hate hospitals. Blood and guts gross me out big time! 
So I could never be a nurse. heheheheheheheheheh
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