At least 26 suicides of young people were reported in Bridgend County Borough in South Wales in 2007 and 2008.
[1] Reports speculated that a "suicide cult" was to blame, though police found no evidence to link the cases together.
The parents of one of the dead accused the media of "glamorising ways of taking one's life to young people".
[4] The mother of one of the deceased added: "We have lost our son and the media reporting of this has made it more unbearable".
The 2015 film was viewed in Wales as sensationalist, exploitative and lacking in truth, in that it showed local youths screaming out to their dead friends in the misty woods, skinny dipping en masse and revelling in regular underage drinking.