Everything to know about the infamous movie Faces of Death before its remake comes out

Barbie Ferreira (Euphoria) and Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things) are set to star in a reimagining of 1978's Faces of Death.

Singer-songwriter Charli XCX has also joined the cast, EW has confirmed.

The news is sure to send chills down the spines of more than a few film fans. That's all thanks to the reputation of the original Faces of Death, as notorious a movie as you would have found on the shelves of your average video store in the '80s and '90s. The film featured footage of animal and human deaths, some real and some fabricated, but all presented as the genuine article and cumulatively intended to disturb even the most tough-stomached of viewers.

Faces of Death was directed by filmmaker John A. Schwartz, using the pseudonym Conan Le Cilaire. Schwartz, a graduate of CalArts (where he reportedly roomed with David Hasselhoff), became involved in the project while working for a small production house.

Taylor Hill/Getty; Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Barbie Ferreira and Dacre Montgomery will star in a reimagining of the notorious 1978 horror movie 'Faces of Death'

"One day, several Japanese executives came to us and asked if we could make a documentary about death," Schwartz recalled in a 2013 essay for Cine-Excess. "They wanted us to capture the horror of extinction, and the more macabre, the better. After the meeting, the owner's son came up with the title, and I came up with the concept: the story of a pathologist who, over time, has compiled a library of death. The movie would simply chronicle his experiences."

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