True Gore combines the usual death footage found in most shockumentaries with video art from Survival Research Laboratories and Monte Cazazza and more
Direction
M. Dixon Causey's queasy collision of art and atrocity.
Production
Survival Research Labs' industrial nightmare machinery.
Director
M. Dixon Causey
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Survival Research Laboratories, featured heavily here, were founded by Mark Pauline in 1978 and specialized in machines that destroyed themselves and each other—performance art as mechanical violence.
Monte Cazazza coined the term 'Industrial Culture' and his presence links this to the early industrial music scene; Throbbing Gristle fans will recognize the aesthetic DNA. The film exists in that weird 1987 VHS netherworld between legitimate underground art and morally bankrupt mondo trash.
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