chribren "Faces of Gore" is a so-called 'shockumantary' film, made by Todd Tjersland who also directed the other two films in this same film series.However, this isn't a movie at once, just a collection of nasty, but real videos showing us ugly-looking corpses caused by traffic accidents, suicides and murders. In-between each of the said so-called 'segments', Dr. Vincent van Gore faces the camera and is babbling something about death and so on. And then these nasty videos comes up, with director Todd Tjersland ridiculing every of the videos/corpses throughout.Most of the footages shown here are from Japan, right? THAT'S WRONG, FOLKS! They aren't from Japan. You can tell that by looking carefully on the people's appearance, clothing and whatever, you can even tell that by looking on the writings on said clothing. Most of those footages are either from Thailand, Vietnam or some other Asian countries.Just to conclude it all, there is basically nothing to see, unless you're a gorehound (like me just to admit it) and just want to watch some real gore footages. But if you really want to see this anyway, please DON'T watch it for the sake of entertainment, because there is nothing entertaining with this 'film'.A few other similar so-called 'movies' (or to be more right 'trashumentaries') include the "Traces of Death"-series and the UK-banned film "Terrorists, Killers & Middle-East Wackos".

jewbo23 How do you review this vile piece of trash. It is completely made up of aftermaths of crashes, suicides and murders all taken from police files. There scenes shown are at some points extremely gory and disgusting. Most notably a scene early on of a motorcycle crash where the riders smashed head has wedged its self between a lamp post and a mesh fence.The film is introduced by Dr Vincent van Gore who tells us he is a professor or gorenology. He obviously reads his dumb and pointless introductions to each section from cue cards. The worst part of this film is the narration. It is given with complete disregard for human life and is extremely offensive. At one point a woman who has hung herself is striped off and the narrator comments on her breast size. It seems he may need a little mental help. The film gets extremely boring very fast as when you have seen one of these scenes you have pretty much seen them all. And after half an hour of the same stuff you become pretty tolerant of the gore and blood on screen. If you enjoy these mondo films then there are plenty more better ones out there. This one is just boring.4/10

Greencow_87 Hmmm....i want you to think about some mistakes, that seems to been made hereLets begin: Mistake number 1, The footage: According to the host Dr Van gore, the narrator and the entire film all footage are taken from Japan. WRONG! They're not from Japan, they're from Thailand! Why am i so sure about that? Well, i you look carefully at the police officers which pass by on and on throughout the film you can see Thailands flag on their uniforms. I've looked really, really carefully and yes it is Thailands flag. All the people we see look like they're from Thailand or at least some other country in South east Asia(Cambodja, Vietnam etc) Only two clips take place outside of Japan, one man that has been shot in a mall in central Bangkok, Thailand and one man that threw himself into a polluted river in Hong Kong. All other clips are "Japanese".After the black-white clip with the polluted man from Hong Kong Dr Van Gore has something on his heart to tell us: "I filmed that scene personally and i was moved by this tragic event. My best wish is that i could erase that horrible picture from my mind forever. Or better.....if i had just bought some color-film for my camera".And also the signs on the police cars. Believe me, i have only been on one trip to Asia( to Turkey) and I'm not an expert on Asian signs and alphabets, but ask an expert on Japanese to watch to tape. He will know that it ain't Japanese signs.Mistake number 2, The Narrator: The director Todd Tjersland also serves as the narrator for this film( like Damon Fox in "Traces of death"). And they're very different narrators both of them. Damon Fox was almost just mumbling from the entire Traces, but mister Tjersland can never keep his mouth shut! And believe me, he sounds like a really really sick man.Mr Tjersland is also a bit of a pig. In another scene we see the body of a young girl 19-22 years old who has hung herself with an electric cable in her apartment. Mr Tjersland starts babbling with an extremely cheesy Transylvanian-style dialect: " Neighbours had start complaining about a strange smell from one of their neighbours apartments. But it was not because this young woman had stopped BAAADDDIINNGGG! It was because she had stopped BRRIIIDIINNGGG!" God, he is such an dumb ass....And then:" No crime scene investigation would be complete without looking at the dead girls breasts. And since she doesn't seem to complain, our lead investigator shall proceed".We then watch of one of the crime scene guys cuts of the girls skirt and we see her breasts. And the narrator goes: "Ah, and here we have the vital information we needed. The victim died wearing a breast cup size 34 C". Jackass....Another scene shows a young couple that has died in a car crash. This is what the narrator thinks about the girl:" You will note how good and well-treated female bodies are being taken care by our own Mr Sato from the Institute of gorenology. He will probably use this woman for his sick, necrophiliac experiments back at the Institute" And then they've added some cheesy jazz-music to make it worse! When the coroners pull her body away from the car when see that her entire body below the waist is blood-stenched.Mister narrator:" Look at the woman, it appears she has menstruated all over herself. This rare occurrence is known as 'Himakosa menstruosa' and now her body can unfortunately not be used by the horny Mr Sato. Lets wish him better luck next time!"And finally Mistake number 3, The "Hollywood" clip: At the end of the film we see a movie clip that according to our host Dr Van Gore is taken from a Hollywood film. It ain't. Anyone can see that it is an independent low-budget amateur film.The clip is from a film called "the Necrofiles". About a cannibal rapist who is brought back to life by a satanic cult and then goes on a killing spree around town. In one scene we see how a bad guy is being shot by a FBI-agent. Play the scene in slow-motion on your DVD-player(which i did) and you can see the bad guys squib, how it explodes and how the fake-blood squirting.Now we are at a cemetery where the satanic cult are performing a ritual by sacrificing a baby. I could clearly see that it was a doll already the first time watching this! Also, is it just me or is that cemetery the same cemetery that the crew used for Dr Van Gores scenes in Faces of gore where he walks around in the sunny afternoon? It looks familiar to me.I'm not going to reveal any more now and the film has a wise moral piece at the end:" Is man a hungry savage beast longing for so much death?" Even though all these mistakes it is quite good. If you like Mondo and real death, the check this out!

GathofBaal Unlike it's counterpart Traces of Death, this does not contain actual footage of death, but rather is a collection of gruesome "Aftermath" footage, mainly imported from Japan. A showcase of mangled accident and murder victims and suicides, it's very graphic and gory, but the novelty wears off rather quickly. Some humor is added by the goofy narrator, who makes inappropriate comments about the victims, and by the addition of ridiculous "Squishy" sound effects whenever a body is moved. For only the most die hard Real Death fans.