I started having a civilisedand intelligent debate about this which was on off topic on another thead. Because I thought it was interesting and the debate was objective etc I thought I'd move it here and get other peoples opinions.
Start of original debate:
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The last few bits:
Originally Posted by Fearonsarms View Post
I have been on other sites (not horror ones) where people claim to have seen a snuff because it was disguised as a horror film. I don't know if wheth they say is true but the fact that there is a market for this I find more disturbing rather than point the finger at the makers of Martyrs and I spit on your grave which was the only mistake I made.
FEROX13:
I would say not as 'Real Snuff Movies'* don't exist. No snuff movie had ever been found. There are rumours that '3 Men 1 Hammer' was meant to be made to sell but this was never proven. There have been an other couple of failed attempts at doing them but where these attempts already had a market for their product was never determined.
That childporn ring that was broken up in Russia were siad to be dealing kiddie snuff too according to early media reports but again nothing came of this..
But then again maybe I'm wrong - if I am and those people on that forum are telling the truth then I would advice them to contact Al Goldstein - the editor of SCrew MAgazine. He'll give them $1,000,000 if they can produce the goods.
*I'm, using the FBI definition - That the murder has to be done solely for the purpose of making a film that will be later sold for profit.
siorai:
Do I think snuff exists? Most definitely. I see absolutely no reason for it not to exist. There is a market for anything you can imagine and a multitude of things you cannot. The market may not be big, but it's there. If there are sites dedicated to real gore like ogrish or the long gone murman, there is a market for snuff. If you want to get realistic, there's a good portion of the population who are already quite interested in snuff. They're the people who rabidly watch the news every night for updates on the various wars around the world, they're the people who go to sites and watch videos released of beheadings, they're the people who slow down and rubberneck at accidents on the side of the road. Sure, it's not the true definition of snuff in that people aren't being killed for the sake of being filmed, but it's still real people really dying on film on people are actively searching it out to watch it.