In the Canadian cult-favorite werewolf film Ginger Snaps, the titular character and her sister take pleasure in staging gruesome photographic art projects depicting their own imagined deaths (see below).
    The artistic examination of death in days past most often recreated biblical or historical scenes, as the Dark Romance feature on 'Judith' showed.
   With the modern use of the camera to capture death in war, accidents, suicides and crime scenes, grue became a part of the artist's palette as a way of expressing the horror of death as a fact of daily life.
   'Lustmord,' a violent murder for sexual gratification, was a graphic subject for German artists Otto Dix, Rudolph Schlichter, and George Grosz.