Faces of Death Is Now Streaming After Rough Box Office Run

The 2026 reimagining of Faces of Death is officially available to watch at home — and given how quickly it disappeared from theaters, that day came sooner than most expected. The horror thriller, starring Barbie Ferreira of Euphoria, hit digital platforms on May 12 and is currently available to rent for $19.99 or purchase for $24.99 on Prime Video, with Apple TV, Fandango at Home, and YouTube Movies & TV also carrying it.

It’s a quick turnaround. The film opened in 1,600 theaters on April 10, pulled in $1.6 million opening weekend for a seventh-place finish, and was already down to 1,000 venues by its second week. By week three, it was playing in just 50 theaters. Its domestic theatrical run wrapped entirely on April 30 — less than three weeks after it opened — having earned a total of $2.6 million against a $7.4 million production budget, not counting marketing costs.

What the New Faces of Death Is Actually About

This isn’t your 1978 cult oddity. The original Faces of Death was a so-called “documentary” that purported to show real footage of people dying — though Variety has confirmed those death scenes were largely staged and faked. It still became a genuine cultural phenomenon, earning $35 million worldwide and spawning seven sequels over the following two decades.

The 2026 version takes that premise and filters it through a very modern lens. Ferreira plays Margot Romero, a content moderator at a TikTok-like platform whose job is to flag and remove violent or offensive videos. When she encounters a particularly disturbing death clip, she starts to suspect the deaths being depicted are real — and that they’re being staged to recreate scenes from a movie. It’s a sharp pivot from found-footage shock doc to something that feels ripped from today’s anxiety about what we consume online and who profits from it.

The film was directed by Daniel Goldhaber and written by Isa Mazzei, the duo behind Netflix’s Cam — a 2018 psychological thriller that also grappled with identity and the dark corners of online platforms. Legendary Entertainment produced the reimagining alongside Don Murphy and Susan Montford’s Angry Films banner, with Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath of Divide/Conquer also producing. Rick Benattar served as executive producer and Cory Kaplan co-produced.

Murphy and Montford had actually been trying to get a new Faces of Death off the ground since 2006, with writer-director J.T. Petty attached for several years before the project was scrapped and rebuilt from scratch with Mazzei and Goldhaber at the helm.

The Cast That Came Together for This One

Beyond Ferreira, the film brought together a genuinely interesting ensemble. Dacre Montgomery, best known as Billy Hargrove in Stranger Things, co-stars alongside Jermaine Fowler, who horror fans will recognize from last year’s The Blackening. Josie Totah, who appeared in the recent Saved by the Bell revival, also has a role — and then there’s Charli xcx, the pop star turned cultural moment, making her presence felt on screen as well.

Production took place in Louisiana, and the film spent about three years from announcement to release — a long runway for something that ultimately had such a short theatrical life.

For horror fans who missed it in theaters — or who were curious but not curious enough to make the drive — the digital window is here now. And given that Faces of Death was co-produced with Shudder, the horror streaming platform seems like the natural next stop once the PVOD window closes. That’ll be the real test of whether this one finds its audience.