A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. Included are a tour of the Grand Guignol theater in Paris, a man who sticks long needles through his body, reindeer being castrated, and footage of lesbians and strippers.
Direction
Proia's gleeful exploitation of global 'curiosities.'
Production
Grand Guignol footage preserved for morbid posterity.
Director
Gianni Proia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'mondo' craze spawned by Mondo Cane (1962), Ecco represents peak 1960s shockumentary ethics—gawk at the world's freaks from comfortable theater seats.
US
