Day Sixteen - Snuff: A Documentary About Killing on Camera (2008)

    While this is a documentary, the stories it chronicles and the footage of atrocities both cinematic and real qualify this as horrific. The envelope-pushing gore and animal cruelty on display from films like Cannibal Holocaust and Faces of Death are enough to turn off the casual viewer, but I suppose if you're watching a documentary on the snuff film, you're probably pretty well-versed in cinematic gore. What even the common gore-hound may not be prepared for is the real-life footage on display in the latter half of the film. The producer of Texas Chainsaw Massacre treats us to some disturbing stories about his time in the porn industry, and former homicide detectives speak of a case where two men would bind, torture, rape and murder women while capturing it all on video, and if that's not creepy enough, we get to see some of the footage. Thankfully it's not the actual killing, but it's still very disturbing. We also get as close to actually watching that internet video of a terrorist group beheading that American as I want to get. Let's just say they start cutting and mercifully so does the editor. It's fascinating, but not an easy thing to take.