‘Faces of Death’ Review: One of the Most Notorious Horror Movies Ever Made Gets Smartly Resurrected for the Social Media Era

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Daniel Goldhaber updates a cursed video tape for an age when we all walk around with snuff films in our pockets. It’s a shame the “ Scream ” franchise has already bled out everywhere but the box office, because Daniel Goldhaber’s similarly meta “ Faces of Death ” is sharp enough to have cut that self-cannibalizing shibboleth down to size on its own. Much uglier and more pointed than Paramount’s stab-happy ATM of a movie franchise, this similarly meta reflection on media consumption — on the “