Would it bother you if a person you knew watched snuff films?

[Arkitech]

I don't mean someone who occasionally peeked at a clip they ran across by accident, but the type of person who actively looks for snuff and execution videos.

 

[skyking]

yes. Without an audience, that crap would not get filmed/distributed.

 

[Qrilock]

I would ask that person to send me links. I have a morbid streak, but I am too lazy to search out the things to satisfy it.

 

[highland145]

Snuff film topic brings out a lurker.

 

[Arkitech]

I can kinda understand a person who may have watched one, once or twice just out of curiosity. But there are whole communities who are hardcore into those kinda videos. It's got to have some kind of effect. People who watch porn crave sex, so therefore people who watch snuff must have cravings as well...

 

[SlitheryDee]

Of course it would. I'd suspect they were mentally unbalanced in some way to actually watch that kind of stuff regularly.

I mean, most of us have probably seen those jihadist beheading videos before, but I for one never sought them out again after that. I don't get anything out of it but an upset stomach, and it would be very weird for me to watch them more than once.

 

[sixone]

Of course it would. I'd suspect they were mentally unbalanced in some way to actually watch that kind of stuff regularly.

This. What kind of a monster wants to see another person's life ended? Not just once, but lots of people?

That's fucked up.

 

[Braznor]

Snuff like rape is more about perverted power than sex.

People who watch Snuff videos get their jollies from the feeling of power they purportedly have over the victim being snuffed out in the movie.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

There's a difference between morbid curiosity and actively seeking out films of murders. I think it's indicative of some fairly serious mental disturbance. It sounds like something a serial killer would do.

 

[Wyndru]

Sometimes I see references to the more known ones (i.e. The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs) and my curiosity gets the best of me.

But then after I see it I'm usually disturbed and can't get it out of my head for a few weeks. I know a few people that frequent sites like rotten.com and watch the old faces of death videos. It never bothered me, and occasionally I watched them.

I guess it's a little different if someone is actively looking for it though.

 

[manimal]

sick. If I knew someone who watched that shit I would know them no longer...

 

[skyking]

If I ever see any film depicting cruelty to people or animals just for the sake of it, I get angry. I don't like me when I'm angry

 

[highland145]

I mean, most of us have probably seen those jihadist beheading videos before, but I for one never sought them out again after that. I don't get anything out of it but an upset stomach, and it would be very weird for me to watch them more than once.

Thankfully, I have never. Bro in law brought some back from Iraq. 5 guys standing over a quite alive man. When they broke out the butcher knife, I left the room. They cut his head off. That's fucked up beyond belief. Religion of pieces.

 

[Fritzo]

Um...yes? People that seek that crap out aren't right.

 

[PricklyPete]

yes

 

[rasczak]

This thread bothers me. My stomach is now upset.

 

[akahoovy]

I'd be leery of anyone who actively sought and watched snuff films. I'd be worried they'd be OK with using violence to solve their issues with people, either premeditated or when emotional.

 

[Alienwho]

Ten years ago as a freshman at college my roommate came across a vid of one that I think is semi-famous. If I remember correctly I think it's of some politician that shot himself through the mouth into his brain in the middle of some news conference with dozens of people around and cameras on him. We watched it and I can honestly say that clip has scarred me and haunted me since then. Just watching the life leave his face and his nose turn into a blood faucet was brutal. People who actively seek this stuff out and watch it are messed up.

 

[gothamhunter]

Don't seek it out, but when it's mentioned my curiosity gets the best of me and I watch it. That's how I've come upon many of the horrors of the internet, like dickchop, 2girls1cup, goatesee, the politician suicide, terrorist suicide, and those 3 guys who stabbed a homeless man to death.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Ten years ago as a freshman at college my roommate came across a vid of one that I think is semi-famous. If I remember correctly I think it's of some politician that shot himself through the mouth into his brain in the middle of some news conference with dozens of people around and cameras on him. We watched it and I can honestly say that clip has scarred me and haunted me since then. Just watching the life leave his face and his nose turn into a blood faucet was brutal. People who actively seek this stuff out and watch it are messed up.

Robert Dwyer.

Google would seem to indicate that it (people killing themselves on TV) happens with frightening regularity.

But in the US, he and Christine Chubbuck are probably the most famous.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Don't seek it out, but when it's mentioned my curiosity gets the best of me and I watch it. That's how I've come upon many of the horrors of the internet, like dickchop, 2girls1cup, goatesee, the politician suicide, terrorist suicide, and those 3 guys who stabbed a homeless man to death.

Curse you, morbid curiosity!

 

[Ricochet]

It bothers me enough that some people get off of torture films like Hostel and that is a work of fiction. They can legitimately explain the distinction of reality and fiction. With actual snuff film, it's just so wrong. Yes, I would say there is something wrong with that person.

There should never be a market for snuff film or child porn.

 

[alien42]

Ten years ago as a freshman at college my roommate came across a vid of one that I think is semi-famous. If I remember correctly I think it's of some politician that shot himself through the mouth into his brain in the middle of some news conference with dozens of people around and cameras on him. We watched it and I can honestly say that clip has scarred me and haunted me since then. Just watching the life leave his face and his nose turn into a blood faucet was brutal. People who actively seek this stuff out and watch it are messed up.

Hey Man Nice Shot, the Filter song, was about that incident.

 

[rayfieldclement]

Were the murders REAL? It matters.

 

[tcG]

Yes, and then I would probably forget about it.