You ever seen someone die on camera?
A snuff film is a recording of the actual murder of human being that is subsequently passed around for entertainment purposes. Suicides and accidents don’t count. According to the MPAA, the FCC, the FBI and the ever-lovin’ Snopes.com, there’s no such thing as a snuff film. Yes, this includes Faces of Death Anything you think might count is faked, falsified, or not made for that purpose, such as those tasteless videos you find on shock sites.
This is a lie.
There are, as best as anyone can tell, between 30-40 snuff films floating around out there. The earliest is a silent film on decaying nitrate celluloid, simply titled La mort d’une fille, and bears the date of 1896.
The latest, judging by the hairstyles and the presence of a “Frankie Says Relax” t-shirt, was probably made in 1983 or 1984 and is on Betamax.
The films vary in violence, but they all include seemingly ritualized sex, followed by the slaying of a girl with dirty blonde hair and piercing blue eyes who appears to be around 19 years old.
That’s right…every film has the exact same girl in it.
That chick must have REALLY pissed off the wrong videomancer.
As the above poster suggests, those tapes are magical fakes (or possibly the same magical fake, depending on how you look at it. In fact, Snopes is right: no cold-blooded murder has ever been caught on camera. Not on purpose. Not by accident. Even though there have been countless sickos depraved enough to do it, no one ever has.
Isn’t that a bit odd?