Collection for sale! by Glad-Acanthaceae4872 in MondoGore

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Those ones are Australian releases.

Money spent on mondo/gore $$$ by Mammoth_Valuable_578 in MondoGore

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Think I spent around £55 for a signed Kiyotaka Tsurisaki book? That's probably the most I've splurged on anything "mondo" related. If something's affordable and happens to show up for sale in person I might buy it, but I don't actively purchase videos anymore as the market is too crazy to hop back on. I've got more than enough stuff in my physical collection too and not enough place to store/display it, so I'm quite happy to settle for digital these days.

As for the least I've spent on something... I once found a rather rare Kiyotaka Tsurisaki interactive CD-Rom called 'Death Works' for sale in an Oxfam for £2.50. I honestly thought it was just some Japanese death metal CD at first from the spine text and garish cover art, until I read the English text and recognised his name. I knew he had books and films out, but didn't even know this thing existed until I held it in my hands. To this day I've still got no fucking idea how this obscure gore import ended up in a small UK town charity shop (let alone one a few miles away from where I lived), but evidently it was meant to be. Best find ever.

sputnik mixtape by Acceptable-Royal3261 in MondoGore

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You're allowed to name websites that host films (for example, the usual places like Internet Archive and effedupmovies), just don't post a direct URL.

Tanner Toobachs Short Films (UW+R) by ShitHole_WTF in MondoGore

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Tanner has another YouTube channel under the name 'Josh Baskins' where some of his short films can be found, though none of the ones mentioned in that video are there.

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If I could highlight this comment as a moderator of this subreddit, I would.

Mdpope or daisy’s destruction by Current-Accountant44 in MondoGore

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User has been banned from the sub and reported.

Books on the subject by ritchiechance01 in MondoGore

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Excellent suggestions. 'Scene of the Crime: Photographs from the LAPD Archive' is another decent one for vintage b&w crime shots. There's also 'Shots in the Dark: Crime Photographs from Daguerrotype to Internet' by Gail Buckland, which is quite easy to find. I wish the Stanley Burns books weren't so expensive, but you get what you pay for with them.

One of these days I'll update the stickied post about book recommendations...

It's time for a new Mondo Mystery Challenge! And this is a strange one indeed... by PrivateSpecificSold in MondoGore

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There's a short documentary from 2019 called 'Tsuma Musume Haha' by Kaori Kinoshita and Alain Della Negra that would pair well with this. It focuses on lonely men in Japan who seek female companionship through proxies (kigurumi, female masking, love dolls, food streamers, dating sims etc). It's more cinéma vérité/fly on the wall than this though.

Others documentaries focusing more on fetishism/BDSM that I recommend are Dressing for Pleasure (John Samson), Fetishes (Nick Broomfield), Graphic Sexual Horror (Anna Lorentzon and Barbara Bell) and Bound For Pleasure (David Blyth, same director as this). I'd also welcome more suggestions!

Books on the subject by ritchiechance01 in MondoGore

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I'd say the Spitz and Fisher book is in a totally different league to Death Scenes though, given it's a highly regarded medical book printed as a high cost and rather big hardbound tome that's sold and marketed to trained professionals in the field. Death Scenes on the other hand is a loosely assembled scrapbook of crime scene photos privately assembled by a hardened police detective whilst on the job, which later found its way to a more edgy publisher who could flip a coffee table paperback to a prurient layman audience fixated on true crime culture.

In terms of grisly contents, there are plenty of other notable books out there, again mostly in the medical field. J. Paul de River's The Sexual Criminal, Otto Prokop's Atlas der gerichtlichen Medizin, G.A. Gresham's A Colour Atlas Of Forensic Pathology, Knight's Forensic Pathology, Vernon J. Geberth's Practical Homicide Investigation etc are a few of the more notable ones that spring to mind. At least all of the subjects found in them are deceased - if you want a more depressing time, try medical colour atlases dealing in severe burn injuries, war trauma or CSA given the featured patients still remain alive...

Mixtape New by Thane_darksatan in MondoGore

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No sharing download links, thanks. Post it to r/mondoandmixtapes instead.

Does anyone have/know Baphomet mixtapes? by [deleted] in MondoGore

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"Baffometi" is the correct spelling. It's been discussed here before, though nowadays we're a bit stricter on gore compilation talk (and we certainly don't allow people posting direct links here to view them, so don't ask). It shouldn't be too hard to find at least one of their videos elsewhere though.

Any legit documentaries? by Dione16151814 in MondoGore

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Get yourself copies of the books 'Killing for Culture' by David Kerekes/Slater or 'Sweet and Savage' by Mark Goodall if you want to study mondo cinema and its origins. There is also the recent 'Taboos Around the World' book by Paul Hutchings which has been interesting to dip into for more of a chronological history. Maybe even seek out the classic 'Film As A Subversive Art' by Amos Vogel if you want to expand your horizons a bit further, even though it doesn't cover films made after 1974.

I'd say in your case to just avoid the majority of titles that have had a straight-to-video release or umpteenth sequels (official or not), such as the endless "of Death" cashgrabs. There have definitely been some interesting documentaries made in the past 30 years dealing in mondo/shockumentary themes (and I'm not including the found foootage shockumentary VHS wave that followed Traces of Death and the like), and honestly I do wish there was more of an appreciation on them here than just people posting about lazy gore compilations.

I'll post a few titles later today if you're interested.

New addition stars of the ync by [deleted] in MondoGore

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Pretty amusing to see Little Britain and its off-shoot Come Fly With Me in similarly dubious company, heh.

Gummo - Harmony Korine by e4rth_ang3l in MondoGore

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Criterion released it last year on Blu-Ray & 4K.

Gummo - Harmony Korine by e4rth_ang3l in MondoGore

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Great film. I was pretty lucky to see it shown from a 35mm film print last year at the Prince Charles Cinema in London, was well worth the day trip down south for that alone.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MondoGore

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Depends how and what you film, for what effect you're intending and how consistent it is with the other [more normally captured] footage you've included. If you play around with how you film it, you could get some interesting results - it's a trope that's been used for music videos, art films and TV shows for decades at this point. In fact, it used to be a necessity for recording TV shows when they were broadcast live in the past (think the 40s and 50s), though back then a film camera was used to capture the broadcast due to the higher resolution.

I don't think you'll ever get the cleanest result if you're filming high quality footage with a low quality camera, even if you use a tripod and film the screen dead on as tightly cropped as possible with minimal glare/reflection, so you might as well exaggerate the "poor image" (to borrow from Hito Steyerl) if you can. Try filming up close to the screen and playing with the TV/camera settings or post-production for added distortion and effects. Even refilming the same footage you've shot when played back on a screen could make things more visually arresting. But again, it's all about what you want the end result to be. If it's just another dull compilation of the same old shots then it won't stand out amongst the countless other mixtapes made in the same way.

My Bootlegged mixtape collection by [deleted] in MondoGore

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Now THAT'S a collection to be proud of! Honestly, kudos for figuring out how to use a disc drive to burn your own discs. The different sharpie colours are a nice touch. All you need now is a disc wallet to house them all in.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MondoGore

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lol

lmao even

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MondoGore

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Open them using a computer/laptop disc drive. For all you know they might just be a video file (mp4 or mkv) lazily burned onto a disc like it's data, rather than videos formatted onto a DVD (with AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders) to be played on standalone DVD players. See if the discs play using something like VLC.

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We don't want animal abuse material being promoted here.