Snuff movies

[Olivia Bauer]

I should think in the depraved land of the internet you'd find such twisted and perverted things.

[Archivist]

It would not surprise me if such things really existed, but they must be so rare/protected that they have never, ever surfaced.  Because if only one of them did, it would be all over the internet.  It's like the ancient astronaut hypothesis: if aliens really did visit the Earth hundreds of years ago and guide human history, surely we would have dug up SOME kind of hard physical evidence by now.  But maybe the aliens were just really good at cleaning up after themselves...

It was claimed that the Dnepopetrovsk killers were making snuff movies, but this was never proven.  There are definitely animal snuff movies, which I find utterly disgusting.  The Luca Magnotta video was just plain weird.  Beyond his narcissistic self-aggrandizement and desire to escape the reality of who he was, Magnotta was obviously unbalanced in many ways, as he made some pretty bizarre choices in what he did with the body parts, the fact that he killed and dismembered someone notwithstanding.

Tangentially, I thought Nicolas Cage's movie 8mm was pretty well made, although not what I'd say I 'enjoyed'.