Faces of Death IV (1990)

To me, this movie is perfection.

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Don't listen to the negative reviews

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

To those who think ALL the scenes are real, I hate to burst your bubble. The West Virginia miner scene was filmed in Alabama at De Soto Caverns. How do I know? My husband "died" in that scene. They even used his real name Ralph. If you pay close attention, you'll notice he was later one of the guys who carried out his own "dead" body.He was a young graduate of the University of Alabama at the time and was paid in pizza and beer.I rated the movie a 10 only because Ralph was so cute and young at the time. Otherwise, the movie is very low brow and ridiculous.I assure you, Ralph is very much alive and still pretty damn cute.

I thought this movie might be a ridiculous guilty shocking pleasure in the mold of Mondo Cane. I was wrong.The footage is almost entirely fake. But it is not fake in a camp cheesy kind of way that would be redeeming, it is just fake in an annoying, utterly transparent way. A few scenes appear to be real newsreel stock footage, but these are a small portion of the total. Most are the kind of quality that would be cooked up by several high school students with red paint and a camera. Plus, there is gratuitous right wing propaganda worked into the narration for no apparent reason.Don't waste your time.

I thought that Faces of Death 4 was quite a bad horror film. It Follows the same pattern of the other Faces of Death movies. In this one there are many staged and unstaged looking deaths ranging from bungee jumping accidents and magic tricks which have gone bad. It was mostly the same type of video footage as in the the other films, although this copy that i own is an uncut version. I found this one to be a much better film than the last one as it contained a bit more interesting footage in it. I would not recommend these film to a lot of people as they contain quite graphic images that some viewers may not be able to watch. 3/10

As a Pathology/Histology Technician I have the ability to both see and experience the most saddest aspect of life, and that is the passing of a fellow human being. As such, I think not only should Faces of Death be revealed as it truly is, an insensitive exploitation of those unable to speak for themselves, it should also be banned for the violation of their rights as fellow human beings. In the industry of death, we all hold dignity, respect and compassion as our first priority to those who have crossed over and that death being a personal experience should not be mocked for the purposes of advancing ones own financial interests...the producers should really contemplate their intents, and people who are not registered Pathologists should not call themselves as such.