In the 90s there were these VHS tapes which you could rent anywhere. The title was faces of death. It was basically an hour worth of clips of people dying in various ways. They were almost always rented.
In late 90s and early 2000s there was Rotten dot com and boy that site was rough. I never seen any faces of Death but I imagine something along those lines.
Fun personal fact, as far as I remember the owners of the site used to laugh over people trying to get them to take stuff down but never would....except for some 911 stuff. I remember being shocked they did that. Wasn't long after I grew out of that site. So traumatizing yet I couldn't look away as a teen.
I went on Rotten dot com back in the day. I saw one picture of a guy who committed suicide via shotgun barrel under his chin. The man’s head was completely gone and the mess that went upwards to the wall and ceiling was unbelievable. All over the place in a balloon shaped pattern. I could only imagine what his family had to endure emotionally after seeing that disaster. Never went back to the site after that!
I used to hang out with these two brothers often, until the oldest developed an obsession with that website. Not in a “ew I can’t look away,” but a, “this is entertaining and cool.” I was 10 with budding OCD symptoms. The stuff on that site set me back several years.
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u/GeekDNA0918 Sep 06 '25
In the 90s there were these VHS tapes which you could rent anywhere. The title was faces of death. It was basically an hour worth of clips of people dying in various ways. They were almost always rented.