The El Duce Tapes | reviewed by: William O'Donnell | September 29, 2023
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An engaging examination of a punk figurehead (& of controversial music itself) that, for better but more likely worse, was the real-deal.
| genre | Documentary | Music |
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| synopsis | A wilfully offensive band, The Mentors gained infamy for performing in black executioner hoods and spewing cartoonishly racist, homophobic and misogynistic lyrics in the 1980s and ‘90s—but was their use of shock meant to propagate hate or confront it? |
| lead actors | El Duce | Steve Broy | Eric Carlson | GWAR | Bill Maher | Jerry Springer | Milo Yiannopoulos | Robin Thicke |
| director | Rodney Ascher | David Lawrence |