and racking up $35 million at the box office, had a second wind of success when it hit VHS and was shared amongst friends like a weird forbidden secret. The movie’s plot is fairly straightforward: a pathologist explores a number of disgusting ways to die based on video tapes of people, well, dying, compiled from “real life” events around the world… the majority of which are fake. Its success was so great that it spawned several sequels, despite the fact that critics mostly panned it.
Claims that the movie had been banned in several countries are mostly untrue, though it was one of the “video nasties” that were banned from home release in Britain in the
Absolutely dumbest „cult“ flick for the low minded gorehound freaks.