The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Barbie Ferreira and Dacre Montgomery are set to star in Legendary’s Faces of Death, a reimagining of the cult horror film.

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The 1978 original focused on a pathologist who explored the gruesome ways that humans die in order to better understand the many ‘faces of death’, cultivating footage from around the world. Whilst in reality most of the death scenes were staged, there were some real deaths shown in the film, leading to the film being banned in multiple countries, particularly being added to the ‘Video Nasty’ list in the UK. Due to this and curious minds, the film received a cult following when it received home video releases.

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Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber have been attached to write and direct the project, where they hope to recreate the original through a modern lens, saying:

Faces of Death was one of the first viral video tapes, and we are so lucky to be able to use it as a jumping off point for this exploration of cycles of violence and the way they perpetuate themselves online.

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Don Murphy and Susan Montford will serve as producers on the project alongside Divide/Conquer’s Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath, with Rick Benattar serving as executive producer and Cory Kaplan as co-producer.