Ogrish The Movie
This area of the website will continue to be updated as new interviews are carried out. Here's a list of the people we've interviewed so far. If you feel you have something to contribute on camera and come from a background in entertainment media, psychology or you are an Ogrish member yourself then please contact us here...
Hayden - Ogrish Co-Owner
Hayden became involved with the running of Ogrish during the height of its popularity, posting a wide array of graphic images and video. Following the closure of Ogrish, Hayden co-founded liveleak.com. A website with a large emphasis on news and politics whilst still showing events of a graphic nature. In the past he has talked openly to mainstream media defending the value of user submitted videos on websites such as Liveleak along with censorship in general.
Chairman Goodchild - Ogrish Community Member
Goodchild has been interested in death for as long as he can remember, it fascinates and disquiets him in equal measure. The details in photographs are what fascinate him the most, clues to how (but rarely why) lives ended. In real life, Goodchild is a bioinformatician and mostly hides his interests from his friends and family.
Martijn - Ogrish Community Member
Martijn explains that he's always had an underlying curiosity with the full truth. The pictures and videos withheld by mainstream media led him on the web to discover Ogrish. Later he established Dutch counterpart website ogrish.nl (though unaffiliated with the original ogrish) which he regularly updates to this day. Martijn believes seeing these images help him seriously appreciate life.
Ben - Ogrish Community Member
Ben became frustrated at the boundaries of censorship on national television networks. He found ogrish.nl and now helps run the site as a co-admin for Martjin. Ben explains he has an ongoing interest examining human death especially watching the stranger and more unusual death acts.
Nth RooCH - Ogrish Community Member
RooCH has been an active member of Ogrish for several years. He believes his personal fascination with death lies in man's inate interest with the extremes of reality. He feels watching these videos doesn't affect him emotionally, but the sheer awe of seeing these unimaginable cruelties draws him in. But beyond all doubt, he feels he is better for it.
DaxRiggs - Ogrish Community Member
DaxRiggs is a character completely fascinated with the human mind and it's incredible capability for evil. The fascination started at a young age after purchasing a reality death film at a local fair. Now he frequently corresponds to notorious serial killers via mail and collects all sorts of death memorabilia to fully immerse himself in the dark side.
Evil Scarecrow - Death Metal Band
Evil Scarecrow are a death metal parody band based in Nottingham, England. Dr Hell (vocals) and Papa Bongo (drummer) talk about death and dying as a fundamental base for the genre of music they play. The two explain how neither have particularly morbid interests but nevertheless use the recognised aesthetics of death to sell their act.
Dennis Mons - Sp!ts Newspaper (Netherlands)
Dennis' wrote an article for the Spitz Newspaper (Netherlands) about Ogrish after the Jokela school shooting in Finland in 2007. The media had been quick to condemn death and gore websites after it was discovered the shooter, Pekka-Eric Auvinen was a regular visitor of the site. Dennis' own views on the matter are very liberal, "...censoring the internet, must not happen." He talks about the media's unrelenting sensationalist approach to death and his own opinion of the gore community at large.
Philip Stone - PhD Dark Tourism and lecturer at University of Central Lancashire
Philip holds a Senior Lectureship with the University of Central Lancashire, UK. His research interests revolve around the concept of dark tourism, the act of travel and visitation to sites, attractions and exhibitions which has real or recreated death, suffering or the seemingly macabre as a main theme. He has published widely on the subject of dark tourism within culture and society. Philip tries to help us understand the links between dark tourism and the Ogrish phenomena, reviewing how fundamental changes in society have influenced a contemporary understanding of death.
Glennys Howarth - Centre Director for Centre of Death and Society
Glennys is the centre director of CDAS (Centre for Death and Society) at Bath university, England. The centre is devoted to the study and research of social aspects of death, dying and bereavement. Glennys offers valuable ideas as to why a death interest exists as well as discussing social attitudes towards death comparing the present and Victorian era.
John Troyer - Research Fellow for Centre of Death and Society
Within the field of death studies, John focuses on delineating and defining the concept of the dead human subject. His research interest explores cultural studies of death and dying, death and architecture and the aesthetics of death itself. John helps us consider recent public exhibits of death such as Guter Von Hagens Body World's exhibition and the role of death in modern life.
David Cooke - Chairman of BBFC
David is Chairman of the British Board of Film Classification. He helps answer our questions on what grounds films are dismissed for public viewing within the UK. He accounts various films in the past which have been banned as well as the games industry and the not so recent banning of Manhunt 2.
Sue Clark - Press Correspondent for BBFC
Sue talks about the characteristic inadepitute the media conveys to the public whenever a real crime event is linked to a film or game. She helps define the characteristics of what builds a certificate rating and also talks about the video nasties, a string of films banned by the BBFC in the 80's and the politics involved in making a decision.
Matt Vickerstaff and Charlotte Thomson - Morbid Artists
Matt and Charlotte are founders of the annual art show Danse Macabre. The show features work that is deemed unsuitable or too controversial for contemporary art galleries from artists all over the globe. The two discuss their personal artistic styles, their influences and what the aesthetics of death mean to them.