Real Snuff Flick Surfaces???? 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick

For reasons well beyond my understanding, one of the topics of greatest interest on this blog has been whether or not snuff films actually exist and a lot of that seems to be from people in search of them. I think a video as close as anything you’re ever going to see surfaced this week under the title I Lunatic 1 Ice Pick and it comes from Montreal . It was apparently made by this gay porn star Luka Magnotta, who supposedly mailed the foot of his victim to the headquarters of Canada’s Conservative Party. Magnotta is a wanted man. The victim was identified as a Chinese student named Jun Lin. I don’t feel it is appropriate to include a link here, but it is largely circulated on-line. Part of the definition of a “snuff film” is that the murder must be videotaped for the sake of profit, and it is not clear that Luka Magnotta had profit in mind, but if he did, then this is an authentic snuff film, apparently. Otherwise it is close to matching the definition of a snuff film, but is not quite a snuff film, but if the intention was ever to sell the video, then yes, I Ice Pick 1 Lunatic is a snuff film. The video involves real cannibalism and necrophilia, so if not true to the letter of the definition of snuff, it would appear to be very close to the spirit of the definition of snuff. Magnotta apparently had a previous video of himself killing and having sex with the corpses of kittens which is also floating around. As the Magnotta case develops I think it should be more apparent whether or not 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick constitutes real snuff or something very close. I think it’s kind of a mote point myself. It's all just sort of sick and gross to me, I don't see the appeal or understand the mindset behind it. I've addressed the subject repeatdly on here as it came up as a tangent writing on the topic of horror films, and this tangent attracts a lot of public interest. Updtae 6/4: Magnotta was arrested in Berlin today. This is important to stress: Magnotta was not a smooth criminal or a criminal genius as he perhaps imagined himself. The myth of an extensive "snuff flick" black market is unlikely for the very reason that this case indicates. It would be a very easy crime to catch someone at. If snuff films do indeed exist it is probably a very small circulation. It reamins to be seen that I Lunatic 1 Ice Pick constitutes an authentic snuff film in so far as it is unclear if Magnotta intended to sell the video.