Faces of Death
IFC Films | Release Date: April 10, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
8
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The Film StageDevan SuberApr 5, 2026
Faces of Death gives the people what they want while constantly probing the viewer as to why they want it, all the way through to an ending as bleak as the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Read full review
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreApr 10, 2026
The uncommonly entertaining horror film, the third from the Cam and How to Blow Up a Pipeline team of Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei, is a clever, nastily contemporary riff on what the original represents — not just the blurring of what’s real and what’s not, but the urge to rubberneck at gore and treat the ability to be unshaken by it as a point of pride. Read full review
89
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzApr 6, 2026
In an era where studios are obsessed with reviving ostensibly comforting intellectual property, Goldhaber has twisted the end-goal of modern Hollywood radically and beautifully. Read full review
83
IndieWireDavid EhrlichApr 5, 2026
Here is a smart, fun, and deeply unsettling post-modern slasher that know it can’t manufacture anything scarier than what people scroll past on their phones every day, and leverages that awareness into a multiplex-ready meditation on the terror of living in a world where even the worst atrocities have been flattened into digital wallpaper. Read full review
82
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiApr 5, 2026
On one hand, Goldhaber’s film is a terrifying, stark, oppressive horror film that outscares the other modern slashers. On the other it’s an intelligent treatise on the grim obsession we have with being obsessively grim. Read full review
80
IGNEric GoldmanApr 9, 2026
Though mostly played straight, Faces of Death has a wicked sense of humor that’s used in a commendable manner. It’s not overplayed, but always lurking under the surface, and it provides some of that aforementioned twisted fun. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoApr 10, 2026
What “Scream 7” should have or at least could have been, “Faces of Death” effectively digs deeper into the themes that the Ghostface franchise has only been flirting with recently, particularly the impact of becoming not just numb to online violence but weaponized by it. Read full review
70
PolygonJesse HassengerApr 10, 2026
It’s both a canny contemporary riff on the material and a well-made but only moderately scary slasher. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesAmy NicholsonApr 10, 2026
As a satire, it’s almost too implied — the filmmakers barely bother to develop their ideas, figuring correctly that people already agree the internet is, at best, a neutral-evil. I liked it and was impatient with it in equal measure, the way a teacher feels about a lazy, gifted child. Read full review
70
The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonApr 9, 2026
Blood-soaked and intense, it is occasionally uneven in tone, with varying degrees of skill from the cast. But story-wise, it mostly holds together, a thinker of a thriller that, even when it heads into pure slasher territory, still has its brain turned on. Read full review
70
SlashfilmChris EvangelistaApr 6, 2026
There's a lot of room for cheap, silly schlock here, but Goldhaber and Mazzei actually attempt to take this (sort of) seriously, which results in a far better movie than you might be expecting. Read full review
70
VarietyOwen GleibermanApr 5, 2026
Faces of Death is “ambitious” trash, with the courage of its own gaudy thematic grandiloquence. Read full review
60
ColliderMaggie LovittApr 9, 2026
For all its visual polish and strong performances, Faces of Death remains caught between commentary and replication. It wants to critique our obsession with violence, but it can’t quite resist indulging in it, too. The result is a film that feels acutely aware of the cultural moment it inhabits, yet strangely hesitant to push beyond it. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubJacob OllerApr 6, 2026
It’s a straightforward slasher with a tech-savvy twist, ironically not outlandish enough to stand out from the formerly forbidden footage filling our feeds every single day. Read full review
50
The RevealKeith PhippsApr 10, 2026
It’s not badly executed, but there’s nothing scary or clever enough to set it apart from similar films beyond the Faces of Death connection, a throwback meta cloak wrapped around a merely good-enough modern horror movie. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalZachary BarnesApr 10, 2026
The film loses its edge as it proceeds, turning into something more generic, less credible, and overly explicit in its statement of themes. Read full review
50
Next Best PictureCody DericksApr 6, 2026
Despite being well shot and slickly constructed, “Faces of Death” doesn’t successfully bring the decidedly not-good but undeniably captivating spirit of the original film into the 21st century. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineRoss McIndoeApr 5, 2026
For a film that’s so well versed not only in the genre but in its tendencies to recreate and recycle itself, it’s disappointing to see Faces of Death do so in such slavish fashion. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckApr 5, 2026
It’s reasonably effective, with Ferreira appealing in the lead role and Montgomery very creepy as the copycat killer who would have benefited from a more wholesome media diet. Read full review
50
Screen RantGraeme GuttmannApr 5, 2026
Margot knows the dangers of social media – her backstory has shades of cliché, but it's still effective in pushing her down the rabbit hole that her coworkers' superficiality precludes them from exploring. That investigation involves a string of missing persons and a killer obsessed with the dark corners of the internet. The biggest issue with Faces of Death, though, is that it's just not all that dark down there. Read full review
16
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezApr 10, 2026
For all its rage about moral decline and the psychic poison of content culture, Faces Of Death never rises above the same cheap sensationalism it pretends to condemn. Instead of confronting the sickness, it feeds on it and spits out something just as rancid as the faux snuff films it claims to abhor. Read full review
11
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerApr 6, 2026
Faces of Death is dull and thoughtless, its attempts to smash influencer culture into voyeurism feeling artificial. Read full review
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