When the original Faces of Death was released in 1978, audiences were left wondering if they just witnessed actual deaths caught on film.

The truth, which was disclosed years after the wildly popular mondo-style “snuff film” composed of numerous sequences depicting death in one form or another was released, was that writer/director/producer John Alan Schwartz’s film was about 60 percent real, culled from autopsy films, news organizations, and sources from overseas, and 40 percent staged death scenes.

Back in 2021, we wrote about Legendary Entertainment rebooting the concept, if not remaining the actual film, though it wasn’t actually filmed until 2023. Now, after years of delay, Faces of Death lives, and will head into theaters, where audiences probably won’t be questioning the fictional nature of the movie. The red-band trailer for the movie is above.

In the trailer, the banners for Independent Film Company and Shudder appear alongside Legendary’s. In it, we see Euphoria‘s Barbie Ferreira, “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?”

And then, in true found footage movie tradition, we see clips of, well, the faces of death, just like it says on the label. A man is filmed being shot to death, execution-style, a woman confronted with a shower slasher, a suffocation, and a creepy masked ritual that presumably results in someone being offed in a grisly manner. The trailer even uses the original film’s title font.

This Faces of Death comes from Cam directors Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber, who also penned the screenplay and also stars singer Charli XCX, Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things), Josie Totah, Jermaine Fowler, and Aaron Holliday. 

Faces of Death attempts to shock and disturb audiences in theaters beginning April 10th.