Legendary Entertainment is going from Kaiju to ‘snuff’ films as it expands into a new kind of horror franchise.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the production company behind Godzilla vs Kong has picked up the rights to the Faces of Death title with the goal of launching a new horror franchise. Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber, the team behind the 2018 psychological thriller Cam, will write and direct, respectively.

Susan Montford and Don Murphy of Angry Films, the team producing Legendary’s Buck Rogers reboot, are producing. Cory Kaplan will co-produce while Rick Benattar of BT Productions will serve as executive producers. John Burrud, the producer of the original movies, is also involved in the project.

The new version of the movie will be a sort of meta-commentary on the original concept. Per the logline, this iteration “revolves around a female moderator of a YouTube-like website whose job is to weed out offensive and violent content and who herself is recovering from a serious trauma, who stumbles across a group that is re-creating the murders from the original film. But in the story primed for the digital age of online misinformation, the question is: Are the murders real or fake?”

Though we know better now, the original Faces of Death was promoted as actual footage of people meeting their demise, and was banned, though not as extensively as indicated on the cover blurb. It was released theatrically in 1978, but didn’t achieve cult status until the 1980s when home video took off. Even without a ban, it was never mainstream, with copies rented on the download for years. Most of the deaths were staged, though there were some real slaughterhouse and morgue shots, but it fooled a lot of people in the days before internet fact-checking was a thing.

The original film was a purported documentary of a pathologist exploring gruesome ways to die via footage drawn from around the world. In reality, most of the death scenes were staged, but no matter, the movie had its producers’ desired effect: public outrage leading to enough success to inspire both sequels and knockoffs. It was written and directed by John Allan Schwartz, who used multiple pseudonyms for his multiple crew positions.

This isn’t Legendary’s first attempt to get into horror — it has a remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre titled Texas Chainsaw Begins in post-production — sources tell THR that the company is looking for a place the field of psychological horror, and not to make straight-up slashers.