8 Horror Movies You Won’t Watch Once You Know The Truth

7. Faces Of Death

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It's hard to explain just how buzz-worthy 1978's Faces of Death was for the longest time.

A near-two-hour film featuring nothing but clips of 'real' deaths, the picture courted huge controversy upon its initial release and in the years following that. Remember, this was a pre-internet age and a time where audiences believed what they were told by filmmakers. If a moviegoer was told that the contents of a movie were actually real events, the majority of the audience would believe that - as seen elsewhere in something like Cannibal Holocaust.

While it would be debated for years just how many of the deaths in Faces of Death were actually real - in truth, none of them were legit demises - there is a very grizzy reality behind this film and its subsequent sequels.

Having watched the original Faces of Death, 14-year-old Rod Matthews bludgeoned a classmate to death in 1986 as he sought to see what it would feel like to kill somebody. If that wasn't tragic and alarming enough, 1993 saw a film called Traces of Death released.

Unlike Faces of Death, Traces of Death featured a lot of genuine footage of people dying - including the famous televised suicide of politician R. Budd Dwyer.

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