Starting in 1946, the “Baby Boom” era supercharged our world’s population by bringing an enormous surge of births. With life, however, must come death, and the tens of millions of people born during that time will, naturally and inevitably, pass away. Now, 80 years after the “Baby Boom,” that’s precisely what’s happening. But is the funeral industry prepared for the “Death Boom” or the massive rise of the dead (and not in the zombie film sense)? They’re an industry long settled into the usual tried-and-true means of post-life rites, including traditional burials and cremations. Yet, as the deceased body count continues to escalate, alternate methods may need to be explored.

In this eye-opening and comprehensive documentary, director Jessica Chandler and producer Eli Roth, who serves as both narrator and on-screen guide, take viewers on an all-access-granted look at this under-discussed issue and how the funeral industry is handling it, sitting down with experts in the field for a firsthand report from the ground level. While never losing sight of the topic’s seriousness, Chandler’s shrewdly accessible doc is a wake-up call of a film that’s also highly entertaining and often quite funny.—Matt Barone