Snuff Films

[Gattsu]

Do they actually exist?

My friend was telling me about the movie 8mm with Nicholas Cage and the whole concept of snuff films.... I'm a little freaked out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff_film

[Akeras]

It's possible they do exist ( I will never underestimate just how sick humanity can be) but the only ones I know of all turned out to be special effects.

[Hatashi]

Oh, you edited your post >_>.

Yeah they exist, but are very very rare. *cannibal holocaust blablabla.

False snuff films

The Guinea Pig films
The first two films in the Japanese Guinea Pig series are designed to look like snuff films; the video is grainy and unsteady, as if recorded by amateurs. In the late 1980s, the Guinea Pig films were allegedly one of the inspirations for Japanese serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki's murders of preschool girls. The Guinea Pig film he owned was "Mermaid in a Manhole".

After viewing a portion of Flower of Flesh and Blood, the actor Charlie Sheen thought that the murder depicted was genuine and contacted the MPAA, which contacted the FBI. FBI agent Dan Codling informed Sheen and the MPAA that the FBI and the Japanese authorities were already investigating the film makers, who were forced to prove that the murders were fake.While the Guinea Pig movies are not snuff films, two were purported to be based on snuff films. The Devil's Experiment was supposedly based on a film sent to the Tokyo police showing a group dismember a young woman. Although Flower of Flesh and Blood was supposedly made after manga artist, Hideshi Hino, received snuff materials, it was based on his own manga.

Cannibal Holocaust
The Italian director Ruggero Deodato was charged after rumors that the murders of people in his 1980 film Cannibal Holocaust were real. He was able to clear himself of the charges.

Other than graphic gore, the film contains several scenes of sexual violence and the genuine deaths of 6 animals onscreen and one off screen, issues which find Cannibal Holocaust in the midst of controversy to this day. It has also been claimed that Cannibal Holocaust is banned in over 50 countries, although this has never been verified. In 2006, Entertainment Weekly magazine named Cannibal Holocaust as the 20th most controversial film of all-time.

Other alleged snuff films
In 2000 a British investigation led to an international effort to seize materials and break up a gang of child pornographers based in Russia. They were reportedly offering pornographic films of child abuse, in which some died from torture, for sale to clients in Italy, Germany, the U.S. and Valdivia. Italian police investigators were also involved. The British paper The Observer reported, "The Italian investigators say the material includes footage of children dying during abuse. Prosecutors in Naples are considering charging those who bought the videos with complicity in murder."'

[Akeras]

Ninja'd you with my edit Hatashi. I was thinking of something else entirely, then remembered what a snuff film actually is.

[Hatashi]

Ninja'd you with my edit Hatashi. I was thinking of something else entirely, then remembered what a snuff film actually is.

Well, you said something about Cannibal Holocaust, so I'm pretty sure you thought exactly right ;S.

[Akeras]

Well, you said something about Cannibal Holocaust, so I'm pretty sure you thought exactly right ;S.

Nah, remembered Cannibal was a fake after posting it, which then lead me to remember exactly what a snuff film is. Basically, I was thinking extreme horror film or something like that at first, then remembered that's not a snuff film.