A wilfully offensive band, The Mentors gained infamy for performing in black executioner hoods and spewing cartoonishly racist, homophobic and misogynistic lyrics in the 1980s and ‘90s—but was their use of shock meant to propagate hate or confront it?
Direction
Ascher lets El Duce hang himself with his own rope.
Editing
Brutal juxtaposition of archival rants against modern reckoning.
Production
Incredible access to decades of unfiltered home footage.
Director
Rodney Ascher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Mentors pioneered 'rape rock,' influencing everything from GG Allin to South Park's edge-lord humor.
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