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Death Scenes

1989 film by Nick Bougas

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Death Scenes is a 1989 American mondo film starring Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey and directed and produced by Nick Bougas. The film was released on VHS by Wavelength Productions in 1989. It focuses on graphic photographs of death, taken from the notebooks of Jack Huddleston, an early 20th-century crime photographer. It received two sequels, both also directed by Bougas, Death Scenes 2 (1992) and Death Scenes 3 (1993).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Death Scenes” is 1989 film by Nick Bougas. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Death, Scenes and film, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 1992, 1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Death, Scenes and film is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “1989 film by Nick Bougas” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1989, 1992 and 1993.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Death Scenes”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Death Scenes primary sources, Death Scenes archive and Death research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Death Scenes”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “Death Scenes” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.