Gesichter des Todes VI

Bearing no resemblance to the other, "official" Faces Of Death VI, the low-rent National Geographic-like video known as Gesichter des Totes 6 begins with black prisoners in Africa, and kids with deformities being prepped for leg braces and put into stocks. Death and disease and violence among tribes people in Africa. Animal cruelty and slaughter; all grotesque. Whippings, and amateur boxing matches held in fields. Swarms of bats, and locusts plaguing African villages. Some time-lapse photography of cloud formations and tornado footage is interesting, as the (stock) footage apparently switches from African to European, or at least American.

Truthfully, Gesichter des Totes 6 is not as abysmal as some other Faces Of Death ripoffs (like Traces of Death, and Faces of Torture) but nothing to get too excited about either. Unless, like myself, you just enjoy the thrill of hunting down supremely obscure titles like this one.

Apparently, Gesichter des Totes 6 was released only on video, and later DVD in Germany by Madison Video in a limited edition of only 500 copies. Neither of the two earlier narrators (Francis B. Gröss, and Louis Flellis) returned for this one, as the first version I watched had been dubbed into French, and edited down to thirty minutes, and the second version I watched was eighty five minutes long, and the narration in German. The original German narration can be heard underneath the French-dubbed track in the version I watched online. Both German and French narrators are uncredited.

I've seen worse.