Monday, June 4, 2012
Extreme Snuff and Cartoon Porn Action!: Luka Magnotta’s 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick and Josh Powell’s Spongebob Squarepants Porn Collection
Today saw the arrest of Luka Magnotta, one gay porn star from Montreal in Berlin. Magnotta is accused of killing a Chinese student, dismembering the body, having sex with the body, and video tapping it, and mailing a dismembered foot to the headquarters of the Canadian Conservative Party. I blogged on the case a few days ago, which attracted attention mostly from people looking for the video, which is entitled “1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick”. It is till unclear whether or not Magnotta's video meets the definition of "snuff film" because it is unclear if he wanted to sell the video. The blog post about Magnotta is still surpassed in popularity by my blog posts on the subject of Josh Powell, who set his two sons and himself on fire in relation to a custody battle he was likely to lose because hundreds of images of cartoon characters such as Spongebob Squarepants engaging in sexual and sometimes incestuous acts where found in his possession. The case of Powell and the case of Magnotta are parallel in certain ways. In the case of Powell, my blog gets thousands of hits from people looking for the Spongebob Squarepants porn just as the hundreds of hits that my blog on Luka Magnotta got have been mostly from people looking for “1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick”. The notion that there is no relationship between violent crime and pornography is clearly false. In these cases we see extreme pornography of one kind or another as fetishes of the perpetrators. In the case of Magnotta pornography was also, of course, his occupation. It looks like Josh Powell had previously gotten away with killing his wife Susan Powell, so Josh Powell had a certain degree of competency as a criminal. Magnotta was caught within days and was an especially sloppy and incompetent criminal. In both cases we are talking about minds in states of extreme decay, but Magnotta was particularly non-functional. The psyche of an individual like Magnotta is not sophisticated. Josh Powel died by suicide (he burned alive) and Magnotta will surely go to prison for years, so neither story ends well for the perpetrator. I get very bored of writing about this kind of fecal matter, but audiences do not get bored of looking it up. It is of some slightly tangential relationship to the primary subject of this blog, which has become horror films due to public interest.
Saturday, June 2, 2012
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.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Extreme Horror Video Soundtrack Action
These are two samples from 80's horror movie soundtracks, perhaps my two favorites, Tangerine Dream's soundtrack to the film Near Dark (about cowboy vampires) and Goblin's soundtrack to Argento's Phenomena (also known as Creepers). People say that guy Phil Spector had a good ear for production or the wall of sound. I think there's a bunch of music by European artists that appeared for cinematic purposes such as Goblin's work or some of Tangerine Dream's work that would make Spector cry if you played it for him in prison, to be totally honest. Actually, this post has nothing to do with extreme horror only regular horror, but I made the title that way so that the post might actually get a good number of hits. The more sincere I am about my interests, the less anyone cares.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Torture Videos! Snuff Films! Serial Killers! Psychotronic Grindhouse MADNESS with Scream Bloody Murder!
It has come to be that on this blog, the topic and real topic that gets hits consistently is an on-going investigation or meditation on the topic of extreme horror and to some extent the related topic of extreme pornography of various kinds that exist, and, as I have frequently written, this is largely true because people find my site looking for pornography. This is not necessarily even within the rubric of horror films the topic that interests me the most. I tire of writing about it, but audiences do not tire of looking such subjects up.
This is from a grindhouse film from 1973 that isn't even good for a grindhouse film. The name of the film is Scream Bloody Murder. It's about a young man with a hook for a hand who is deeply uncomfortable with sex who keeps a prostitute captive. The film completely ignores basic logic and plausibility, is super low-budget, and as such is highly entreating, especially to watch with a group of people. That's actually much more so the spirit with which I watch horror films generally.
There's the final interview with Ted Bundy done by Evangelical James Dobson from Focus on the Family where Ted Bundy argued the influence that pornography, in particular violent pornography, had on his psyche. If I continue discussing the general issues addressed in that interview through different horror films or something like the Powell family case, it will continue to have an audience. It will be reiteration but there will always be an audience for it. It's the same general stuff. You have sexual taboos about the violation of another, for example taboos against rape. I dig up some horror film that involves rape as subject matter, a woman is raped and impregnated by an alien in the film for example, and write on the film. The discussion by it's very nature must be a reiteration of the kind of themes found in the final interview with Ted Bundy, ultimately. Someone finds it looking for footage of a woman being raped by an alien. Based on the numbers that come in, I determine that this is a popular kind of blog to write, so I work on some variation on the theme. If I try something different, the number of hits are smaller, and so the cycle keeps going. My heart is elsewhere. My mind is elsewhere. But it repeats because that is what gets the most attention. I can try to make jokes of, to poke fun at Josh Powell's collection of Spongebob Squarepants porn, for example. Or for instance, here I might quote Charles Manson's response to Ted Bundy- "I've been watching pornography my entire life and it hasn't effected me"-
As groovy and psychedelic as Charles Manson is though, however, I think Scream Bloody Murder from roughly the same era might be almost equally groovy. That's some serious Psychotronic Grindhouse ACTION!
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Extreme Torture! Murder Caught on Video! It's August Underground!
This is a review of the shot on video film August Underground by Fred Vogel. This film comes up and again in discussion of extreme horror I see on-line. I am not a particularly big fan of the film. I find it kind of boring, to be honest. There is this kind of predicament that I'm in where blogs on extreme horror cinema are in general by far the most viewed (at least on this text based blog, my political internet radio show gets thousands of hits) the problem being that I think I'm running out of quality films within the genre to deal with. I had said in my review of S&Man that I wouldn't review August Underground. I didn't really want to for awhile but this blog probably will get hits because a review of this film could easily be mistaken for pornography of some kind, which is a trick I frequently use just to get more hits. It's a pretty bad film though, in my opinion. No insult to Fred Vogel, I'm sure he's a fun guy to sit and watch some zombie flicks with, this film is ultra low budget, sort of slow, and generally kind of pointless in my opinion. It's a dull faux-torture-snuff video made with no money, it's nothing much more than that, and that has some audience. There are segues, but I'm not really interested at all in seeing them for any reason. Man, Fred Vogel must have really had budget constraints because he couldn't find particularly good looking women desperate to get their foot in the door to be actresses. I don't know if he eve sunk quite as low as Bill Zebub, but August Underground is pretty wretched fecal matter. This is a very stupid movie.
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