if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Faces of Death II (1981) * 1/2 (out of 4)FACES OF DEATH became a huge phenomenon when it was originally released so it was only time that a sequel would follow, which would of course turn into more sequels and countless rip-offs from around the world. FACES OF DEATH II pretty much is the same film as the first one, although I think an argument could be made that this here is much darker in terms of its tone.I say that because the first film featured a lot of obvious fake or staged footage that wasn't fooling anyone. This one here contains some obvious fake footage like an incredibly stupid robbery sequence but there's a lot of real stuff here. Perhaps the goriest footage comes from scenes of dolphins being captured and slaughtered. Animal lovers will certainly want to skip a very long sequence where we see several creatures killed. This also contains real footage of various stunts gone wrong including a man who tried to jump over a one mile river. Another memorable sequence deals with boxer Johnny Owens who was killed in the ring.Is FACES OF DEATH II a good movie? Certainly not. Whereas the first film was somewhat original this one here is basically just an excuse to try and make more money. The scenes are poorly edited together and there's no question that the majority of them just aren't anything overly special. In fact, the entire series would be viewed as many people as being disgusting and I'm sure younger people would watch this and not understand what the big deal was back in the day.Even when I viewed these films as a teenager I knew they were mostly garbage but those who grew up in the 80s knew that it was something important to get to rent these and then watch them with your friends just to see how much you could take. It was a badge of honor if you could make it through the entire film and if one of your buddies didn't it meant he was being made fun of throughout the rest of the night.FACES OF DEATH II does feature an incredibly creepy music score over the credits though. Your entertainment level is certainly going to depend on what you're looking for.

Best (HAH!) of the series.Most of this was real footage.Accident scenes from the autobahn.Avalanche deaths.Johnny Owens' last fight.Only the cop shootout at the drugstore seemed fake. Too many camera angles and too much OTT acting to pass off as real.Digging the bodies out of the avalanche was tough to see because most of the faces of the dead were easy to see.The fire at the German nursing home will NOT be easy to stomach.And the autobahn's traffic deaths were also a little heart rending.My one question; Did 'Francis B. Gross' really make that much money off the first film that he could afford expensive boots, a new motorcycle, and to drink tequila in Mexico?

Faces of Death 2 does not live up to the pure gore style of the first film, which makes it not quite as good. The one thing that makes this film stick out is the amount of real footage. Faces of Death used fake footage to get fame, which was okay because the footage was still so graphic and disturbing that it didn't really matter. But almost all of the footage found in Faces of Death 2 is real, with the exception of a few scenes, such as the drugstore shootout. It has some good stunts gone wrong, a few disgusting animal scenes, and a really brutal boxing match where a heavyweight takes on a man who looks like he hasn't eaten in five years. Faces of Death 2 isn't the best in the series, but it isn't the worst either.

I was relatively kind in my review of the first "Faces of Death" movie. Sure, it was utter trash, but I could see at least a reason for its exsistence: to scare the hell out of people. The sequel's only goal is to make more money off the original's infamous reputation. What kind of inspiration is that? The idea of a film comprised of footage of real people and animals getting killed in front of the camera is sick and disturbing. The first time around, there was merit, the idea of making more, just for the sake of making more is totally wrong. (F) Not Rated, but equivalent to an NC-17 for continual graphic carnage and gore from man and beast.