Snuff Films

Few urban legends have horrified the general public as much as the notion of snuff flicks. The concept behind these movies, which purport to depict an actual murder that has been captured on camera, dates back to the 1970s. Over the course of the year, the FBI looked into several real movies that showed deaths in such a realistic manner that viewers believed they had witnessed a real person pass away, but all they found was fiction. Several horrific movies, such Guinea Pig and Cannibal Holocaust, have drawn attention; in fact, in 1991, Charlie Sheen, the actor, informed authorities about the latter. To establish their innocence, the creators had to show how they created the special effects fatalities in the movies.

The majority of websites still assert that snuff films are urban legends and have never been verified to exist. That is untrue. There has been a snuff movie, and it was released not too long ago. Jun Lin was killed by Luka Magnotta in Montreal, Canada, in 2012. This horrifying crime involved cannibalism, necrophilia, and dismemberment. Magnotta captured it all on film. He then uploaded it to the internet.

A gory website posted a roughly 11-minute long video of the murder, captioned "1 Lunatic, 1 Ice Pick." It displayed the victim being repeatedly stabbed and then dismembered. It had music in it. And several days prior to the murder, he published teasers online. The victims' hands and feet were mailed to primary schools in various parts of Ottawa, Ontario, as well as as far away as the West Coast. Later, the murderer was found guilty of first-degree murder.