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8. Faces of Death

Not unlike Silent Night, Deadly Night, there were precious few horror fans hankering for a reimagining of the infamous 1978 cult film Faces of Death, which well and truly felt like a product of its time better off left there.

Yet filmmaker Daniel Goldhaber (Cam, How to Blow Up a Pipeline) found an unexpectedly clever path to reinvent Faces of Death for 2026, his film effectively functioning as a meta-reboot which creatively incorporates the mythology of the original film itself.

This approach certainly won't be for all tastes, but Goldhaber uses the setup as a leaping-off point to explore the perils of social media, our collective fascination with morbidity, and online cults of celebrity.

Barbie Ferreira and Dacre Montgomery are terrific as hero and villain respectively, and though Faces of Death likely isn't any sort of relaunch for a new run of movies, as a one-off curio it's far more of a success than its long-delayed release might have you believe.