There have already been plenty of creepy movies to hit the 2026 movie calendar, and while some like Undertone terrify with supernatural stories, others play on our fear of real-world evils. The latter is definitely the case for Faces of Death, a meta remake of the 1978 mondo horror flick of the same name. Critics got to screen the upcoming horror movie ahead of its April 10 release, and they’re praising the remake as “brutal” and “deeply unsettling.”
In Faces of Death, Barbie Ferreira plays Margot, the moderator of a social media platform who’s responsible for filtering out violent or offensive content. She happens upon an online group that appears to be re-enacting the murders of the original Faces of Death film and sets out to determine if they’re real or not. David Ehrlich of IndieWire says this remake smartly reinvents the cursed videotape genre for the modern era. He gives the movie a B+, writing:
