encephalon
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Reading the quote on the previous page while finishing up "the girl who played with fire" ... I feel ill. This thread is horrifying.
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Do you watch Snuff Films?
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Broder Salsa
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Yeah that stuff isn't snuff really. There's done a few documentaries and they haven't ever really found anything that fits the description of snuff, "A snuff film is a motion picture genre that depicts the actual murder of a person or people, without the aid of special effects, for the express purpose of distribution and entertainment or financial exploitation".
But yeah, watched stuff like 3 guys 1 hammer and that luka magnotta video, so if you count that, I guess.
You get ultra-violent images and videos being spammed on mainstream forums at times (who hasnt been linked to 'Offended'...). While not nice, its the films that really get you. Yes they are fake but they show the victims in situations where they have no hope whatsoever.
Reading about some of these films has made me depressed in the past.
Reading about some of these films has made me depressed in the past.
Jesus christ they're white knighting on a 'cannibal' forum - You weren't kidding, place is nuts
abstract alien
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I really want to ask/google what this is, but I don't know...
oneils
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It is pretty tough to watch.
I guess a lot of the videos that we are mentioning here are not strictly snuff films. I am not really sure what you would call them.
Dark_AnNiaLatOr
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You read my mind.
It was incredibly tame.
Doesn't show anything. Everyone says it shows necro and cannibalism...but it doesn't.
Broder Salsa
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Well if you want to just read about it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs#Murder_videos_and_photographs
abstract alien
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Ah...yeah, I remember this one. Definitely left a lasting impression, in a bad way of course. Thing is, I would feel the complete opposite about this had it been a criminal who did something terrible like child rape or something.
killertofu
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Good God, that was horrible to read.
CrocMother
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I'd love to work this question into a casual conversation with a new acquaintance sometime.
Mammoth Jones
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I mean, I don't actively go out of my way to casually look up videos and images of human suffering. I personally think there's something wrong with someone that gets out of bed, grabs a nice hot cup of coffee and then goes and searches the net for gory shit just for personal kicks.
With that said, I do look at gory shit if I'm reading a news article or happen to read a story about it.
Personally I really wish war coverage here in the States wasn't censored at all. Why do I watch it? Because that's the world we live in and I want to be aware of it. Images are powerful. It's one thing to read about something, it's another thing to see it.
With that said, I do look at gory shit if I'm reading a news article or happen to read a story about it.
Personally I really wish war coverage here in the States wasn't censored at all. Why do I watch it? Because that's the world we live in and I want to be aware of it. Images are powerful. It's one thing to read about something, it's another thing to see it.
beelzebozo
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the bit from that verge article about the video of a guy suffocating two kittens is so sad and fucked up i am traumatized. i can't believe that exists.
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If you have an interest in the history of "snuff film", the best book on the subject is Kerekes & Slater's excellent Killing For Culture. Fascinating book, sober, objective, and very well researched.
Its a quite old now, (I believe an updated version may be coming at some point) but that's almost a strong-point as it adds an important historical perspective by representing a world pre-internet/phone-cameras etc.
The sad fact is modern technology has turned yesterday's urban myth into a grim reality.
Its a quite old now, (I believe an updated version may be coming at some point) but that's almost a strong-point as it adds an important historical perspective by representing a world pre-internet/phone-cameras etc.
The sad fact is modern technology has turned yesterday's urban myth into a grim reality.
CoffeeJanitor
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TheExplodingHead
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Pains me to say, but watching these kinds of videos can get addicting at times. My wife and I got into watching it back when Rotten first started. So yeah, I've seen pretty much everything, doesn't really effect me like other people though...mainly a curiosity. But I don't go out of my way to watch them anymore.
oneils
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Not sure if we saw the same video. The one I saw has Magnotta using Lin Jun's dismembered arm to masturbate. Then he uses a bottle to anally penetrate the body. Then he carves pieces of the body up (chunks of flesh). Then he mounts the torso (after all the limbs have been dismembered, don't think we see the actual acts of dismemberment) and has sex with it.
Then he has a puppy munch on a stump of his leg. On and on. Its about 9 minutes of this kind of stuff. Not sure I would call it tame.
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