The sickest film genre you've never heard of finally gets its autopsy.
A feature-length documentary film adaptation of the 1994 non-fiction book of the same name, chronicling the history of Mondo cinema and the "death film".
Direction
Janisse treats sleaze with scholarly respect without sanitizing it.
Editing
Brutal juxtaposition of archival atrocity footage against critical analysis.
Director
Kier-La Janisse
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mondo films essentially invented 'shock content' as a business model decades before YouTube algorithms monetized outrage.
The 1994 source book was itself banned in multiple countries, making this adaptation a meta-commentary on forbidden knowledge.
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