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Oh man, i just read thru all the posts on the ebaums site. it gets really good around page 11 or 12. at 200 posts Aicha comes to kill us.

Lol. OK READ THIS

i forgot to bookmark it, but at some point, the main guy who claims that Aicha is dead admits its all a joke. just thought i'd clear that up

Wasn't the movie "8 MM" about a snuff film industry or something?

Glamcat, the movie you are thinking of is The Life of David Gale. It starred Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslot, and Laura Linney(played the lady that killed herself). Now you won't have to go crazy.

Sherrie, Thank you! You're right. I feel so much better now.

8mm was another good movie that dealt with this topic. You're right Maegan.

Hey... The Aicha kid os copying a song done by a Danish group called Outlandish...
just a little info.. And I hear from all of my Swedish friends that yes, it is true.... very sad
cheers
jake

Eric, what is the "ebaums site"?

I think 8mm was the George C. Scott film I was thinking of, I never saw it just the trailers and some of the comments about it on the various discussion shows. The talk was always that it was a good film, but I can't remember if anyone ever came out with solid evidence that "snuff" films really existed or were just a legend. I also remember hearing that real porno actresses were used in the film, however that might be just another legend.

Nnnnnnno.

The George C. Scott movie was called 'Hardcore' and came out in 1979. '8mm' was a Nicholas Cage movie that came out in 1999.

In 'Hardcore', Scott's character's daughter runs away from home, and he hires a private eye, and finds out she's fallen in with South American thugs who make snuff films, and he has to rescue her from them. '8mm' is about a widow who finds a snuff film in her dead husband's effects and hires Cage to investigate and see if it's real.

I've seen 'Hardcore' on cable (could it have been TBS?). Cheesy, but entertaining, in a Health Class Movie sort of way.

I've also seen plenty of real death footage from series like 'Traces of Death', but again, that's stuff that more or less accidentally got filmed (paramedic footage, news footage, stuff like that). It's still not technically a 'snuff film' according to the urban legend, since no one was being killed specifically to make a movie.

And really, if you were a producer, why would you bother murdering someone for your movie when you could just buy a bunch of censored morgue, amateur, news, and police footage of violent acts, string them together, sell the videos for $40 a piece on websites like rotten.com, and avoid being charged with a crime?

So, I read through all the posts on that ebaums site and OMG! This thing is really getting out of hand. I've never seen so many posts going back & forth! People saying they've seen the full footage, people NEEDING to see to full footage, people who don't want to see it. One thing is for sure, nobody has been able to find it anywhere on the internet. (And it seems like some of these people have made the search their new full time job!)
Leads me to believe,what Alex said in the very beginning, it never really existed. All these people who say they've seen it are lying, just trying to keep the UL going. It's a good one. I mean, I could just as easily come on here and say "I saw it! It's real!"
The best argument I read for it not being real is the "who edited it?" comment.I mean really, someone went to the trouble to edit this video and post it on the internet.
The real question in my mind is who started the UL? Was it the kid himself? I mean who would watch that video without all the mystery? It's actually a brillant ploy. He's acheived internet infamy.

Here's a relatively informative article about the Snuff films urban legend. As usual, a marketing ploy gone wild. Here 'tis: http://www.csicop.org/si/9905/snuff.html

Thanks Barghest for clearing that up, memories can be unreliable at times and I hadn't heard of 8mm so I confused the two. I wonder how old the kid in the clip is. Could he be trying to show how good a computer or video geek he is for some class or club? If he's of the right age, maybe this is a fraternity prank. Who made the original post on ebaumsworld? Since that person made the comment implying that the unedited version could be found, maybe that person is in on the hoax?

It seems to have been started and perpetuated by someone going by the screen name "Waysloppy". Throughout the posts, this person is accused and berrated about starting this rumor. There are some others who do chime in and say they've seen it though. I don't believe them. It's ridiculous to think this is true! Although, there is a part of me that does wonder.... what if?
That's the stuff ULs are made of!

The article Hairy cites is interesting, especially as a record of an outrageous hoax, but it doesn't convince me of its basic premise, which is that the movie "Snuff" (a grade ZZZ exploitation flick made in Argentina) was the original source of the "snuff film" legend. It seems more likely to me, especially given the title, that the distributors capitalized on an already-existing rumor/legend to promote their otherwise virtually unmarketable property.

Big Gary C, you are correct. Gleaning deeply from my endless memory library, "Snuff" was the term given to films that, obviously, depicted, allegeded suicides or killings, done for the camera. The story was, these films were on 8mm, super8, 16mm, whatever, and were smuggled in thru Mexico (see article), and shown as a modern-day Grand guignol spectacle amongst the more twisted of us. This pretty well pre-dated home video players. The film "Snuff" was one of several, but the most notorious, that was purported to have been an 8mm,etc, transferred to the big screen. I think I saw "Snuff" when it came out on video some time later, and I was convinced that was gruesomely, exploitively, visciously, fake. Terrible to behold nonetheless, and a true piece of trash. Not unlike Andy Warhol's "Trash". Later, these really despicable Faces of Death videos came out, and we got to see the real thing. Personally, I like Theatere, I enjoy Illusion, and I love Films. This snuff stuff, in my view, is the bilge water on the Turdball Titanic.

Just wanted to answer kateys question on the first page of this and I believe this is the kid from Gummo if not, I truely feel sorry for this kid for looking like him.

Glamcat asked if anyone knew this song "Aicha". My husband is German and he says that the song is quite well known here in Germany. (Glamcat also mentioned that the boy's website was in German.) My husband believes that the original artist was Turkish.

Oopsy, I just read Page 2. If Jake R. says the original group are Danish, then that must be right. All the same, it is quite well known here in Germany

yeh i didnt think it was true! i mean he has his own website n stuff and i found this while searchin the web! http://members.msn.com/default.msnw?guids=599HlfJJ3EWKHbfnDt6FThnBlk1l3aNJWGiWRvlp0ixOelvBlJ4lP7xALnsEsPFff*

i dnt think hes dead!