For example, there’s quite a bit of autopsy footage in Faces of Death — lots of literal getting under the skin, and also, in one of the movie’s more stomach-turning moments, having skin peeled back off a skull.
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Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2026
The daughter peeled her mother’s hands away from Louise.
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