purely out of curiousity

[themoog]

hi there, this is purely out of curiousity, having read some of the stories that feature snuff and having watched 8mm with nick cage in, i was just wondering if anyone has actually seen a snuff movie or are they just one of the many tales of time?

the moog

[csr]

Check this out:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/snuff.htm

[MrJerseyGuy]

I just made a post regarding something along these lines last week. As a city copy investigating sex crimes, I have seen some genuine torture movies. I don't recall any that involved an actually killing (although who knows what happended to those poor girls after the filming was completed).

I'd have to think you'd be a real moron to try to market something like that commercially.

And for the record, no, I'm not into it! I draw the limit at good old fashioned torture!

[Barton]

Ah, but there are always morons out there now, are there not?

Barton

[woodsman'sgame]

I read the information in the link you provided, csr, and it makes sense and seems to be well documented and supported. So "snuff" films seem to be another urban legend. That's a relief.

[Atrophine]

Unknown Russian Soldier.

look it up on imesh or whatever.

[slavelucy]

Ah, but there are always morons out there now, are there not?

Barton

Yeah, that's certainly true enough Barton, unfortunately.

i always assumed (or rather hoped) that snuff films were the stuff of urban myth..i certainly would hope that was the case anyway. But having heard some of what MrJG has to say, one cannot help but feel a twinge of concern about just how far some of these wankers would go, they clearly live and operate by a different ethical code to most people.



sl

[Garmonbozia]

So is film of public executions not considered snuff?

[MrJerseyGuy]

Ah, but there are always morons out there now, are there not?

Barton

You are absolutely right! The world is full of them. And as for snuff being an urban legend, I don't believe that for a minute. I am sure they have been made in quantities that would offend the sensibilities of most of us. I just doubt that very many of them have been marketed commercially. I'm sure they have been marketed privately.

You know, I had been a big city cop for a lot of years before I started working Vice, which included sex crimes. I thought I had seen it all...up until then. I don't doubt anything now. You can absolutely bet that they are out there.

[BDSM_Tourguide]

Snuff films DO exist. I've downloaded a couple off kazaa and WinMX. Nothing particularly gruesome or gory or anything, just an enactment of a chick being stragled to death and a supposed scene of a girl being impaled on a metal rod and electricuted to death.

Neither were real. They were very obviously fake.

About 99.9% of any snuf variety films you will find, and you can find them, are not real killings. They're just porn with a supposed death at the end. You can rent most snuff films at the "Brand X" video rental places. You know? The places usually found in the basement of other XXX video places? The places where you don't want to touch the walls or the film cases.

Every now and then someone does make a real snuff film, usually the girl in the film is also a minor. Most of these get reported to the FBI and/or police before they ever see the light of day. Your chances of viewing an actual piece of snuff porn are about the same as you standing at the exact spot where a meteor will hit the earth.

Granted, there are snuff films out there that have nothing to do with porn, like the Iraqi beheading video, but why anyone would actually want to sit and watch it, I don't know.