An Intro to Mondo

Mondo could be defined as an exploitation documentary – comprised of shock footage. Often referred to, more annoyingly as, a “shockumentary”. Beginning with Mondo Cane in 62’ and made famous by Faces of Death in 78’.

Honestly, this is a weak genre for more seasoned fans of gore. So I’ve chosen 2 for now, to introduce and represent the significance of mondo.

Faces of Gore (1999)

One of the most recent, extreme and memorable addition to the genre is this twisted collection of brain slushies. Seperating itself from your run-of-the-mill “.... of death” film’s, is the draw of a deadpan, cheesy delivery and unapologetic disrespect for the dead.

We open to our host, Vincent Van Gore (from the Institute of Gornology) walk through a cemetery while the X-Files theme plays.

 We are then graced with 90 or so minutes of ambulance cleanup footage – said to be from Japan - but obviously isn’t (more likely bought from a shady felon from Thailand). Despite some speculation, the majority of deaths shown are legitimate and are all the more hilarious for it.

Early footage features a motorcycle rider who has hit a steel pole head first and is now lodged between the pole and the iron-mesh fence behind it (Cue slurping noises). Our Narrator enlightens us:

“[Mr Ito] a fellow motorcycle enthusiast lost control of his vehicle then discovered his head had been mysteriously wrapped around a metal fence-post... Mr Ito’s head proved so stubborn to dislodge itself from its final resting place, that a crowbar had to be used to pry it loose. You will note, that in this case, Mr. Ito’s helmet to be of little protection. Still, one can only shudder to think what would have become of him, if he hadn’t been wearing that helmet.”

Hour and half of this, I'm a need a fap.

Oh yes, it’s that bad. But wait, there’s more! After a teenage suicide; said to be over school grades:


“ If only the students in America were this conscientious about maintaining their grade-point averages, we'd have an epidemic of mass suicides on our hands!” 


One body is that of a pregnant woman. At this point the Dr Van Gore starts a tirade about unmarried mothers being worthless and useless to society and we are better off that this happened to her.


“The heat was so intense as to have made a hole in her stomach, revealing the embryonic foetus inside. This is probably one of the most popular and best of our faces of gore. This way we get two for the price of one.”
Inbetween, there are necrophilia jokes aimed at the ambulance aids, menstruation, a poorly faked interview with an assassin and perhaps the most insincere of all, the body of a young woman whom has hung herself is being inspected:


  “No crime scene investigation would be complete without looking at the dead girls breasts. And since she doesn't seem to complain, our lead investigator shall proceed".
*one of the crime scene guys cuts of the girls skirt and we see her breasts*



"Ah, and here we have the vital information we needed. The victim died wearing a breast cup size 34 C”
Too soon? If Faces of Gore were ever caught in the hands of a minor there would be social outcry and moral panic guaranteed. 
Faces of Gore however is tedious and redundant for the most part – only noticeable for it’s truly sick content. A head first dive into that metal pole (whoops) known as Mondo.

   Memory of the Camps (1983)

After the sweeping success of The Eternal Jew (1940), German documenters felt a passion, one resulting perhaps the largest stage production to date.

 ‘The Holocaust’ became a national hit screening from Auschwitz to Dachau. Budgeted with all the Jew gold they could harvest, inventing the faux-snuff torture porn genre and remaining realistic even to this day. Western audiences mistook it as real footage and exaggerated its cast significantly to overstate their argument.

Alright, holocaust denial isn’t funny... but 6’000’000 dead Kikes ar- -ENOUGH!

Actually, even to those who believe in holocaust denial, Memory of the Camps describes roughly 30’000 dead at each concentration/death camp, times by approx 20 camps across Europe = 600’000. That’s one less digit.

Memory of the Camps, showcases some of the roughest concentration camp footage around and compiles them  into a documentary released in  83’. The footage is that of what the military saw on arrival of these death camps. The sights, obviously, are pretty horrific: The body pits, hordes of people malnourished, children’s corpses being dragged and thrown around. Ugly stuff. And while probably considered more historical then mondo sensationalism, it’s not exactly eye-candy either, close-ups and landscape shots of endless bodies is more disgusting and shocking then your usual history programming.

Watch it here: http://www.archive.org/details/MemoryOfTheCamps