How to Watch Faces of Death Online in 4K

Faces of Death is a 2026 American horror film directed by Daniel Goldhaber and co-written with Isa Mazzei, reimagining the controversial and influential 1978 film of the same name. The film stars Barbie Ferreira, Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah, Aaron Holliday, Jermaine Fowler, and Charli XCX. It premiered as a 35mm screening at Beyond Fest Chicago on April 5, 2026, and was theatrically released by IFC with a simultaneous Shudder streaming debut on April 10, 2026. The film holds a 69% score on Rotten Tomatoes from 119 critics' reviews. InfinityTV's library of 150,000+ Movies & Series will carry Faces of Death in 4K Ultra HD as distribution expands.

What Is Faces of Death?

Faces of Death is a 2026 American horror film that reimagines — rather than directly remakes — the original Faces of Death (1978), the notorious pseudo-documentary that purported to show actual footage of human death from various causes. The original 1978 film, directed by John Alan Schwartz under the pseudonym "Conan LeCilaire," was one of the most controversial horror-adjacent films ever released: presented as a documentary compiled by a pathologist, it mixed staged death scenes with real footage of animal slaughter and was banned in over 40 countries.

The 2026 version, directed by Daniel Goldhaber and written with Isa Mazzei, transforms this premise into a contemporary horror film about the digital-era equivalent of the original's conceit — viral death content on the internet.

The Plot

The film follows a woman working as a website content moderator — a job that requires reviewing and removing disturbing content submitted to a platform. She begins to encounter a series of violent videos that reproduce and recreate specific death scenes from the original 1978 Faces of Death.

The moderator's experience — repeatedly viewing violent and death-adjacent content as a professional requirement — is both the film's horror premise and its thematic comment: content moderation as an occupation, and its psychological toll, has been the subject of significant journalism and academic research since the 2010s. Goldhaber and Mazzei place this real professional reality at the centre of their horror premise.

Dacre Montgomery plays Arthur Spevak, a serial killer who is recreating the deaths from the original film — bringing the 1978 source material back into the contemporary story as an active criminal project rather than just an archive reference.

The Cast

Barbie Ferreira (born 1997, New York) is an American actress and model, best known as Kat Hernandez in the HBO series Euphoria (2019-2022). She has also appeared in Unpregnant (2020) and multiple other projects. Playing a content moderator navigating escalating horror is a significant genre departure from her Euphoria work.

Dacre Montgomery (born 1994, Perth, Australia) is an Australian actor known primarily as Billy Hargrove in Stranger Things (Seasons 2-4) and Jason Scott in Power Rangers (2017). Playing a serial killer recreating death scenes from a 1978 film — a villain whose premise is explicitly about the relationship between spectacle and death — is the most significant dramatic stretch of his career to date.

Josie Totah is an American actress known for the NBC series Champions (2018) and her role in Saved by the Bell (2020-2021).

Aaron Holliday is an American actor known for Euphoria — appearing alongside Ferreira in that series.

Jermaine Fowler is an American actor and comedian known for Superior Donuts (2017-2018), Coming 2 America (2021), and Air (2023).

Charli XCX appears in the film, marking her second film appearance in 2026 alongside Erupcja.

How to Watch Faces of Death in 4K

Faces of Death was released by IFC in cinemas and simultaneously on Shudder on April 10, 2026. To stream it in 4K on InfinityTV:

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Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei: The CAM Team

Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei are the director-writer partnership behind CAM (2018), the Netflix horror film in which a cam performer discovers that her livestream has been taken over by an exact duplicate of herself. CAM was one of the most praised horror films of 2018 and remains a significant example of internet-native horror — using the specific aesthetics and anxieties of online performance as its horror substrate.

The collaboration on Faces of Death extends this project: where CAM was about the horror of seeing yourself replaced online, Faces of Death is about the horror of seeing death reproduced and recirculated — the original 1978 film's premise updated for the era of algorithmic content platforms and professional content moderation.

Goldhaber has spoken about the decision to use real-life violence "within the bounds of the law" — a quote reported by Variety — as a deliberate continuation of the original 1978 film's aesthetic provocation. The 2026 film is not a found-footage horror; it uses the content moderation premise to examine the relationship between images of death and the people paid to watch and manage them.

Content Moderation as Horror Context

The real-world context of content moderation gives Faces of Death a contemporary purchase that the 1978 original could not have anticipated. Since the mid-2010s, investigations and documentaries have documented the psychological impact of content moderation work — the cumulative trauma of repeatedly viewing violent, disturbing, and death-related content as a professional requirement.

Casey Newton's reporting for The Verge in 2019 and 2020 on Facebook content moderators — documenting PTSD, burnout, and lasting psychological harm — is the most discussed example. Netflix's 2022 documentary The Moderators examined the broader landscape of platforms and the humans who maintain them.

Goldhaber and Mazzei place a horror premise — a serial killer recreating scenes from a 1978 death film — inside this documented professional reality. The content moderator protagonist is not stumbling onto horror by accident; she is being paid to watch it.

Critical Reception

Faces of Death holds a 69% score on Rotten Tomatoes from 119 critics' reviews — a positive majority, indicating that most critics who engaged with the film found it worthwhile, while acknowledging that the subject matter creates significant audience segmentation.

The average rating from Rotten Tomatoes of 6.3/10 suggests that even positive reviews tended toward qualified praise rather than enthusiasm. This is consistent with horror films that are formally and thematically ambitious but place significant demands on their audience.

Key critical themes include:

• The CAM/Goldhaber-Mazzei partnership's proven competence with internet-native horror premises
• The performance of Barbie Ferreira as the central moderator character
• Dacre Montgomery's serial killer as a mechanism for examining the relationship between the 1978 film's cultural afterlife and current digital death-image culture
• The film's deliberate provocation regarding what constitutes real versus staged footage in the digital era

The 35mm premiere at Beyond Fest Chicago — a horror festival known for presenting genre films in a serious critical context — positioned the film as an event for engaged horror audiences rather than multiplex fare.

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Is Faces of Death (2026) Based on a Real 1978 Film?

Yes. The 2026 film takes its title and central concept from the original Faces of Death (1978), one of the most controversial films ever released. The 1978 original was presented as a documentary compiled by a pathologist showing actual footage of death — animal slaughter mixed with staged human death scenes. It was banned in over 40 countries. The 2026 version by Goldhaber and Mazzei does not remake the original as a documentary. Instead, it uses the 1978 film as a narrative element: a content moderator encounters videos online that are recreating the original film's scenes, and the investigation leads her toward a serial killer (Dacre Montgomery) who is deliberately staging these recreations. The 1978 film becomes both the villain's source material and the 2026 film's comment on how death imagery circulates, persists, and gets reproduced in the digital era.

Frequently asked questions

What is the 2026 Faces of Death about? The 2026 Faces of Death follows a content moderator who, while reviewing violent videos submitted to a platform, begins encountering a series of clips that recreate specific death scenes from the original 1978 Faces of Death film. The investigation leads her toward a serial killer (Dacre Montgomery) who is deliberately reproducing and staging the deaths from the original film in the present day.

Is the 2026 Faces of Death a remake of the 1978 original? The 2026 film is described as a reimagining rather than a direct remake. The original 1978 Faces of Death was a pseudo-documentary presented as actual footage of human death, directed under a pseudonym and banned in over 40 countries. The 2026 version by Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei transforms the premise into a contemporary narrative horror film about content moderation and viral death content online.

Who stars in Faces of Death 2026? Faces of Death (2026) stars Barbie Ferreira (Euphoria), Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things, Power Rangers), Josie Totah (Saved by the Bell), Aaron Holliday, Jermaine Fowler (Coming 2 America), and Charli XCX. It was directed by Daniel Goldhaber and co-written with Isa Mazzei, the team behind the 2018 Netflix horror film CAM.

Where can I stream Faces of Death (2026) in 4K? Faces of Death (2026) was released by IFC on April 10, 2026, with a simultaneous Shudder streaming debut. InfinityTV's library of 150,000+ Movies & Series will carry it in 4K when distribution expands. Subscribe to watch on InfinityTV and search for Faces of Death in the on-demand section.

What is Rotten Tomatoes score for Faces of Death 2026? Faces of Death (2026) holds a 69% score on Rotten Tomatoes from 119 critics' reviews, with an average rating of 6.3/10. It was directed by Daniel Goldhaber and co-written with Isa Mazzei, and was released in US cinemas and on Shudder on April 10, 2026.