Well, you know how the old saying goes-you wait all decade or two for one magnum snuff opus and two come along at once. Yet the funny thing is (and this is what we say, however briefly, in response to those emails) the book has been under construction the whole time-all that time, more or less, since authors David Kerekes and David Slater finished the first edition back in 1993. Simultaneously an exposition of the snuff myth and a history of all manner of death on film, it sold over 20,000 copies-and will forever be filed under ‘cult classic.’ Meanwhile, in the lengthy period since its publication, a great deal has taken place, both in terms of the world in general, and in the weird realm of death-on-film in particular: the Internet, for example, which has led to the likes of ISIS, Luka Magnotta and more popularising choreographed, filmed atrocity in a way unimaginable back in the early nineties… Now, the first edition of Killing for Culture deserves its reputation as one of the strangest best sellers ever written.
The new edition of that seminal Headpress release has been postponed more times than Sepp Blatter’s resignation…
This is, we’d be the first to concede, a very reasonable question. Hi-Is the new edition of Killing for Culture ever going to come out? Presumably not, just thought I’d find out for sure. It unfailingly reads something like this: We get a pretty regular email here at Headpress Towers.
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