The red band trailer for Faces of Death has arrived in all its blood soaked glory, and if the first preview was a warning shot, this one’s the full-blown grindhouse riot. This is the second look at the reimagining of one of horror’s most infamous titles, and it’s making it crystal clear: this isn’t nostalgia, it’s escalation.

The original Faces of Death built its reputation on shock, rumor, and the kind of playground mythology that made you feel like you’d committed a crime just by pressing play. This new version leans into that legacy, but instead of dusty VHS urban legend vibes, it’s dragging the concept kicking and screaming into the modern age, where everything is filmed, shared, and consumed at a terrifying speed.

From what the trailer shows, the film heads deep into a digital rabbit hole of extreme content, where the line between staged and real starts to rot away. It’s less about cheap shock-for-shock’s-sake and more about the obsession with watching, why we can’t look away, and what happens when that curiosity turns into participation. And yeah, it still looks like it’s going to gouge out your eyes while asking those questions.

The red band cut doesn’t hold back either. It’s louder, meaner, and way more explicit in tone than the first, teasing a mix of found footage aesthetics, faux-documentary grit, and the kind of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it imagery that’s guaranteed to get dissected frame-by-frame by horror sickos within hours.

Directed by Daniel Goldhaber, from a script he wrote with Isa Mazzei, and starring Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things), Barbie Ferreira (Euphoria), Josie Totah (Saved by the Bell), Aaron Holliday (Cocaine Bear), Jermaine Fowler (Sorry to Bother You), and Charli XCX, Faces of Death hits theaters on April 10th, via Independent Film Company and Shudder.

Whether this ends up being a smart update or just a slicker coat of paint on a notorious name is still up in the air, but one thing’s certain: it knows exactly what kind of reputation it’s playing with, and it’s sure as shit not trying to clean it up.