Via Vice: Keeping Score On The Gore – How Real is Horror?
Weird that yesterday we mention VICELAND and today they come up with this piece, “from the archives”. But then, it is Friday the 13th, and today everyone’s on the horror wagon.
Dr. Howard C. Adelman is a pathologist who does private consultations for police, private investigators, and local morticians. To a horror-movie fan and true-crime fan, the guy is also a living legend. He was the deputy chief medical inspector at the original Amityville murders on Long Island in 1977. The story that was bastardized again and again for books and movies, the six people shot in one night by a family member? This is the first guy who walked around that crime scene with the cops checking stuff out.
We showed him clips of kill scenes from some iconic slasher flicks and then asked him, “Is this bullshit or what?”
Not that I’m pointing out any shenanigans, it’s a good article. Read the whole thing here.
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