> FRESH MEAT FOR THE TABLE!!!
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> Executive Summary
>
> "Faces of Death" is certainly not a snuff film according to the
> relatively strict official AFU definition. It purports to be a
> compilation of footage of death, collected by somebody named Doctor
> Gross [sheesh] as a result of his researches into the nature of death.
> There are only three sequences in the entire 100 minutes that depict
> probably genuine deaths. One is news footage of what appears to be a
> political assassination at a French news conference, the second is a
> skydiver falling to his death at an airshow, and the third is a
> botched movie stunt. The famous alligator and bear attack scenes are
> staged, and neither scene actually shows the victim being chomped or
> mauled. The monkey brain dinner scene also is unconvincing.
>
> There are plenty of scenes showing people who died _before_ appearing
> in the film, and a number of genuine animal slaughterings.
>
> Detailed Description
>
> Times are from the start of the movie.
>
> 0:00:40 Surgery scene. Draped body, see only open chest cavity with
> beating heart.
>
> 0:02:27 Opening credits. Shots of cadavers in body bags and on autopsy
> tables.
>
> 0:03:20 Autopsy. Incision, open chest and abdominal cavity. Opening of
> cranium with bone saw. Removal of brain and internal organs.
>
> 0:08:16 Guanajuato, Mexico. Exhumations of graves in town cemetary
> revealed extensive mineralization & mummification of corpses. Montage
> of adult and child mummies.
>
> 0:09:30 Brief bullfight scene. No death. Pit bulls, dogfighting. One
> shot of bloody dead dog.
>
> 0:11:10 Amazon jungle. Large spider w/ killed bird.
>
> 0:11:46 Praying mantis kills cricket. [Yes, really.]
>
> 0:12:15 Snake swimming in stream attacked by pirahnas. Underwater
> camera. No clear shots of fish and snake together. Ends with bloody
> water, shot of apparent chewed-up snake remains.
>
> 0:13:15 Ibaro Indians shoot monkey in tree with blowgun. Woman roasts
> monkey over fire. Indians drinking, dancing. One shot of shrunken
> head.
>
> 0:15:25 Africa. Masai tribesmen bleeding cattle, mixing blood and
> milk, butchering a cow.
>
> 0:16:25 Farm scene. Woman catches chicken and beheads it with hatchet.
> Long scene of headless chicken flopping around.
>
> 0:18:10 Cows and sheep in slaughterhouse.
>
> 0:19:03 Shochet slaughtering cow in accordance with Jewish dietary
> law. [Cuts throat, cow bleeds to death.]
>
> 0:19:45 Killing, skinning, and butchering cows and lambs in
> slaughterhouse.
>
> 0:21:14 Intro to famous monkey brain scene. Belly dancer performs in
> dining adventure." Waiter brings wine and "special dining implements."
>
> 0:22:42 Waiter carries screaming monkey to table, puts it in hole in
> the center, clamped around the neck.
>
> 0:23:10 Diners get their hammers ready. Long shot of table. Monkey's
> head is turning round and round. [Kind of like a fake monkey head on a
> turntable or something.]
>
> 0:23:31 Diners hammer monkey. Most camera angles don't actually show
> monkey's head. 2 quick shots of hammers touching head, not hitting
> hard. One shot from under the table. [I'm sure the diners didn't mind
> having a cameraman under there.]
>
> 0:23:45 Waiter cuts head open. [Probably fake - monkey's face looks
> like rubber.] Diners spoon out and eat monkey brain. [Well, something
> that looks like raw brain, anyway.]
>
> [Looks to me like the famous monkey scene is faked. There are several
> cuts between the time the waiter puts a live monkey in the table and
> the hammering. Several camera angles are used, with two close-up shots
> during hammering. This would be difficult to do without interrupting
> the action, or a second cameraman appearing in the long shots.]
>
> 0:25:50 Man with AR-15 apparently shoots at sea otters. Actually
> shooting a shark. Shark fishing.
>
> 0:26:50 Pribilof Islands. Men clubbing and skinning fur seals. Shot of
> field full of skinned seal carcasses.
>
> 0:28:40 Alleged alligator poachers. [Yeah, I'm sure illegal hunters
> don't mind being filmed.] Shot of skinned gator.
>
> 0:29:30 Alligator farm. Gators eating raw meat.
>
> 0:29:50 Intro to alligator attack scene. Apparent TV news reporter
> doing a standup report. Bad actors worried about a 15-foot alligator
> in a lake.
>
> 0:30:45 Game wardens arrive in a boat. They're going to try to catch
> the gator.
>
> 0:32:07 Man in boat throws lasso into weeds. Suddenly yanked out of
> the boat. Cameraman runs closer. Confused struggle seen, with what
> looks like a 3 or 4 foot alligator when run frame-by-frame. Many crowd
> reaction shots. Several shots of alleged TV cameraman. We never
> actually see the alligator biting the man.
>
> 0:32:57 Luckless game warden pulled ashore. Limp, bloody, shirt torn.
> He's covered with a blanket.
>
> [This sequence is laughably ungenuine. It is allegedly filmed by a TV
> news crew. Where did the second camera come from? How on earth did the
> TV cameraman manage to position himself to get close-up crowd reaction
> shots at the same time as he filmed the "attack"? How did he get the
> extreme close-up shots of the man struggling with the gator?]
>
> 0:33:16 Assassination at a news conference in "La Salle, France,
> 1968." Jean Voisier [sp?], head of what sounds like the Partie
> Socialist Populaire, stands at podium speaking. Suddenly shot in the
> chest, from behind the cameraman's POV. Shirt and tie move at moment
> of impact. Slumps over podium as sounds of audience reaction are
> heard.
>
> [This could be genuine. If it were faked, they'd probably have used a
> blood bag under his shirt and it would have been more visually
> impressive. I have no idea if this assassination actually happened.
> Anybody?]
>
> 0:34:05 Interview with the alleged assassin, Francois Gordon.
> Distorted voice, ski mask. Shoots watermelons with AR-15, says he's a
> professional assasssin who kills because he likes it.
>
> 0:35:51 Murder scene with cops and bystanders. Interior shot of house
> with body outlines in tape and bloodstains on the carpet.
>
> 0:36:21 Police surround gunman in house. Supposed to be "Mike
> Lawrence", on July 10, 1973. No location given. Cops shoot at house,
> SWAT team moves in. Lawrence driven out of house with tear gas, shot
> on front porch by police.
>
> 0:37:50 Interior. 3 bodies on kitchen floor, Lawrence's family. Cop in
> gas mask orders cameraman out.
>
> [This is probably a re-enactment of an actual situation. The police
> assault on the house is shown with a large number of camera angles.
> Mike Lawrence's death looks staged, and there are a couple of close-up
> shots of him at a window shooting back at the police.]
>
> 0:39:20 Interview of Thomas Noguchi, celebrity coroner of Los Angeles
> County.
>
> 0:40:10 LA County Morgue. Man moves corpse from gurney to autopsy
> table.
>
> 0:41:32 Close-up of cadaver.
>
> 0:41:50 Autopsy - open chest cavity and cranium.
>
> 0:42:25 More autopsies. Cadaver with apparent broken leg (foot twisted
> around backwards.) Autopsy tools, buckets of bloody garbage.
>
> 0:44:15 Embalming at morgue. Refrigerated room with 40 ? covered
> cadavers. Shots of toe tags.
>
> 0:47:33 Prison, gas chamber. Unnamed criminal is about to be executed.
>
> 0:48:51 Door closed. Camera looks thru observation window in chamber
> as the prisoner convulses and dies.
>
> [Staged. No witnesses to the execution except the cameraman. Sound of
> prisoner coughing is clearly audible, even though he's in a sealed
> chamber.]
>
> 0:50:00 Execution of Larry DeSilva, convicted in 1974 of rape and
> murder. Scene of him smoking last cigarette in cell.
>
> 0:52:02 DeSilva is strapped to electric chair. Eyes are bandaged "to
> prevent them from popping out of their sockets." [Yeah, right.]
>
> 0:53:45 Switch thrown. Dramatic electrical buzzing sound effects.
> DeSilva convulses and drools. Head moves around as if the chair's cap
> isn't secured. Close-up of blood oozing out from bandages over his
> eyes.
>
> [Same as above. No witnesses. Business about eyes popping out seems
> unlikely.]
>
> 0:55:26 Beheading, allegedly shot by Canadian tourist in Middle East.
> Many camera angles, reaction shots. Cut between shot of man being led
> to the block and actual beheading.
>
> [Again, staged. Actual beheading is seen from a distance, from the
> direction of the top of the victim's head. If they didn't mind this
> tourist filming in the first place, why not let him get a close-up?
> Did they wait for the tourist to finish filming village children
> looking frightened?]
>
> 0:56:59 Alleged cult ceremony "on the outskirts of San Francisco."
> Cheesy cult ritual - hippies chanting and taking some kind of pills,
> sitar music. Cult leader sacrifices a man, lying on the floor. Close-
> up of incision as he cuts chest open. Removes heart immediately. [Gee,
> where did the victim's sternum and ribcage go?] Topless babes eat raw
> meat and smear blood on their breasts.
>
> [Oh, please. This one has lots of shots of recognizeable faces,
> including the cult leader who performs the sacrifice. Oops, maybe
> they're part of the Satanic Ritual Conspiracy and just DON'T CARE!]
>
> 1:02:45 Kentucky hills. Snake handler cult members speak in tongues
> and wave snakes around. Nobody gets killed.
>
> 1:04:38 April 22, 1977. Mary Allen Brighton commits suicide by jumping
> from a building. Shots of her falling, lying on pavement. Moment of
> impact not seen, though.
>
> [Probably genuine. Too poorly filmed to be a reenactment. Dubbing
> Dixieland jazz in the background during this sequence was a nice
> tasteless touch, though.]
>
> 1:05:56 Body of Samuel Berkowitz is prepared for cryonic suspension.
> Shots of body in bandages. [Wait - maybe it's really - nahhh.]
>
> 1:07:51 Corpses of two drowning victims. Convincingly bloated and
> ugly.
>
> 1:08:04 Drowned man in surf, bystanders watch as he's pulled out and
> put in body bag.
>
> 1:09:20 Cave entrance. Sheriffs go in to retrieve man who fell down
> shaft. Shot of man's body at bottom.
>
> [Probably reenacted, unless the rescuers really had some guy rappel
> down the shaft with them carrying a camera.]
>
> 1:12:52 Bear attack. 2 cars with tourists. Man gets out of one car to
> film as woman throws bread to the bear. Dialogue ("Be careful, Bob.
> Bob, be careful.") is recorded across a cut from Bob's camera to the
> one in the other car. Bear rears up over Bob. Woman screams "Oh my
> God!", and car horn blows, all recorded by other camera 50 or 60 feet
> away. Bob's-eye view of bear's face in extreme close-up. No shot of
> bear actually mauling Bob, just eating some raw meat. Jumpy shot of
> bear leaving with unidentifiable object in mouth.
>
> [Staged. This time, though, the camera angles are actually consistent
> with two cameras in or near the cars, with one exception. To get the
> shot of the bear eating, the other cameraman (not Bob) would have had
> to get out of his car and move closer. Not real likely, given what
> he'd just supposedly seen.]
>
> 1:14:53 Stock footage of volcanoes, flooded town, a tornado, burning
> buildings. One shot of man's body in wreckage following a tornado.
>
> 1:17:05 High rise building fire. 2 shots of victims trying to escape
> and falling from windows, with dubbed screams. Woman's body on
> pavement in the street.
>
> 1:17:40 Trash, landfills, air pollution. Sappy song ("Jesus Doesn't
> Live Here Any More"). Shot of what looks like an oil refinery, with
> anti-nuke protestors marching around. Allegedly at Three Mile Island,
> though the protesters are nowhere near a nuclear power plant and the
> vegetation looks a lot more like California than Pennsylvania. One
> protester douses himself with gasoline and sets self on fire at the
> gate.
>
> [Staged. Too many camera angles and reaction shots of a blond woman in
> hotpants screaming prettily. Several shots from opposite side of man
> on fire. No other cameraman is visible.]
>
> 1:20:03 Stock World War II footage. Naval gunfire, bombers, artillery
> firing, infantry in combat, corpsmen carrying casualties.
>
> 1:21:10 Nuclear test. Bikini? Johnson Island? Bunch of ships moored
> near ground zero.
>
> 1:21:27 Stock footage of Nazi rallies. Aerial footage of bombers,
> bombs hitting target. Stukas diving, street scene in burning city with
> troops running around.
>
> 1:22:20 Night incendiary bombing footage.
>
> 1:22:37 Concentration camps. Mass graves, emaciated corpses, more mass
> graves.
>
> 1:23:50 Bubonic plague, rats, rabid vampire bats. Narrator claims
> rabies victims eventually "choke to death on their own saliva."
>
> 1:24:20 Cholera epidemic in India. Sick people, none dead.
>
> 1:25:01 Malnourished Biafran children.
>
> 1:25:29 Surgery on dog at UCLA laboratory for cancer research.
>
> 1:28:22 Airshow. Real-time and slow-motion footage of a skydiver
> falling under a partially opened parachute. Dubbed thump when he hits
> the ground.
>
> 1:29:46 Movie location. Preparation for shooting scene 47B of some
> movie called "Hell Raisers." On first take, a car stunt is botched -
> car drives off low bluff into shallow stream, but hits opposite bank.
> Close up of unconscious driver.
>
> 1:31:45 Film of freight train derailing. Could be from some other
> movie.
>
> 1:31:50 News footage of passenger train wreck. One face, several hands
> seen in wreckage. Body under blanket.
>
> 1:33:04 Still photos of car wrecks. News footage of female bicyclist
> who was run over by semi.
>
> 1:34:05 News footage of plane crash. Unidentifiable light plane. 2
> bodies, one decapitated, pulled from wreckage.
>
> 1:35:32 Cockpit shots of Cessna and Boeing 727. Air traffic control
> tape of the September 1978 midair between a Cessna 182 and a PSA 727
> over San Diego plays in background.
>
> 1:36:24 Two still photos of 727 going down. Film of distant column of
> smoke and fires on the ground, probably from either news media or
> police video. Aerial view of crash site, ground shots of wreckage.
> Emergency crews fighting fires. Sheet-covered bodies in street. Shot
> of bloody splash mark on house, men on roof covering a corpse. Crews
> removing bagged bodies. 2 shots of body parts in street. Woman's torso
> w/ head and one arm, hand outstretched, in street.
>
> 1:39:15 Haunted house story. Joseph Binder, architect, claims his
> house is haunted by ghosts of his wife and 5-year-old son. Paranormal
> investigators fiddle with "sensitive instruments", then spread flour
> on floor to detect ghost footprints. [Snicker.]
>
> 1:42:15 Narrator pontificates about life after death. Shot of woman in
> labor. Closing song, "Life", begins.
>
> 1:43:30 Closing credits over scenes of woman playing with newborn
> baby, walking by ocean, et cetera.
>
> The closing credits list the name of the actor who played Dr. Gross,
> and conclude with the statement "Exiguous scenes in this film were re-
> enacted."
>