Hats off to mainstream, prime time US TV show America's Next Top Model for pulling something a little shocking out of the (body)bag. As part of a recent episode, its contestants were asked to pose as dead bodies in eerie crime scene photographs, something that perhaps did not go down too well with all its conventionally-minded viewing audience.

Personally, we think the pics would like rather fetching above a finely rustic mantelpiece, and with comments like "absolutely beautiful", "powerful", "a great shot, death becomes you, young lady!", and "I love the broken-down leg", it seems the judges are in firm agreeance too!

Photographs courtesy of CWTV