"Brilliant."-Brainsonfilm.com

"Utterly unputdownable."-Melody Maker

"Stands as the definitive study."-Sight & Sound

"Kerekes and Slater, the Siskel and Ebert of sleaze."-Channel 4 TV

Killing For Culture, the definitive and legendary investigation into snuff and death on film, is expanded in a completely new and revised edition, containing new chapters, new images, color pages, and a new cover.

Illustrated by rare and stunning photographs from cinema, documentary, and real life, Killing For Culture remains a necessary book. It examines and questions the human obsession with images of violence, dismemberment, and death, and the way our society is coping with an increased profusion of these disturbing yet compelling images from all quarters.

Genuinely influential and acclaimed the world over, it remains the only study of its kind and is here updated for the first time in over ten years.

The wealth of new material includes the advent of the Internet and a subsequent upsurge in pathological imagery, the snuff film as a psychological weapon of terror, the industry of pseudo snuff films created by independent filmmakers, new technology, investigations of supposed snuff film busts, the origins of snuff, plus exclusive interviews and much more.