There was once a series of videos made called Faces of Death, horrific "documentaries" that apparently showed real executions from around the world. The idea behind these were that they would deter people from committing crimes in these countries.

Now Don Murphy, one of the producers on the original Transformers: The Movie, alongisde partners Rick Benattar, and Susan Montford, are to revive the series with a new film under the same banner and presumably with the same content.

According to TMZ J.T. Petty is set to direct.

Petty, you might remember, brought his documentary "S&MAN" (pronounced "Sandman") to the Toronto Film Festival to widespread acclaim. In "S&DMAN," Petty delves into the disturbing world of underground simulated snuff films, wherein victims are "dispatched" with all manner of grisly, albeit faux, torture. Despite its fringe-y subject matter, Petty's "S&DMAN" was essentially an indictment of mainstream horror films, pictures, he argues, that are rooted in the same voyeuristic leanings which sell such freakish fetish videos. "S&MAN" impolitely asked horror genre aficionados to question just why they so enjoy watching human suffering so much.

It all sounds so nice and gentlemanly, and yet what we are talking about are real people dying. I'm not sure if the new film is going to follow this vein or more in the S&MAN style, but either way it sounds pretty distasteful.

I was shown a few scenes from one of the films when I was younger and it haunts me to this day. In fact it's an image that if I start thinking about I find hard to get out of my mind. It was shocking, and before anyone tries to tell me differently, what I saw was real.

I'm not sure what to think about this and before I made any judgements I'd want to know if they are going to fake everything in the film or go for reality.