Originally posted by New England
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I can't stomach any of that kind of crap now, I refuse to watch.
Snuff tapes have existed probably as long as video has but not in the definition of the thread starter - people purposely murdering for the sake of selling the videos for profit, thats not the reality. What they are are always either accidental death, executions, especially beheadings these days, or murder caught on film that gets past around and sometimes sold. I don't think there has been a single case of an actual snuff tape being proven as real (under that definition). here is a snopes article that talks about it in depth:
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/snuff.asp
It really just boils down on the definition of snuff tapes:
1. Murders, executions, suicide, accidents, etc caught on film or recorded for the murderers own personal sick pleasure = of course they exist. Thousands and thousands of them exist.
2. A murder being committed for the sole purpose of video taping it and profiting from the video = false. This doesn't happen and according to Snopes, there hasn't been a single case of this happening ever (there have been plenty of fakes however).
Here is a newer article from 2016 as well talking about real snuff films have never been conclusively proven to exist:
http://www.blumhouse.com/2016/02/12/...he-snuff-film/
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