8. Conan LeCilaire/John Alan Schwartz
The man responsible for turning the Mondo movie from a let's-gawk-at-funny-people-all-over-the-world caper to what it is today - a gory, morbid collection of footage of people dying in real life offered up as cinematic 'amusement' for the viewer. Most of the footage from the original is mercifully fake (such as the monkey brain eating sequence) but it is still highly appalling to watch. Inappropriate music adds to the horror - for example when a young woman jumps off the roof there is a countdown - "A one, a two, a one, two, three, four!" Splat. There's just no need for it! Poking fun at suicide is beyond the pale. Mind you, the film was made with a Japanese audience in mind. Schwartz had a hand in most of the Faces of Death franchise that sprung up after the incredible success of the original. Morbid people all over the world were treated to autopsy footage, airplane wreck footage, people buried alive in an avalanche footage and bits of people smeared on the road after being run down are being involved in car crashes. And this is just the tip of the iceberg, I will depress myself further if I list anymore atrocities. The continual stream of Faces of Death clones - Traces of Death, Death Scenes - proves that there is a huge market for people to wallow in human misery and we have the evil director John Alan Schwartz to blame for this morbid, unwholesome pastime. Probably inspired the creation of rotten.com.