[TheSpottedOwl]

I saw something online, and I too wanted to call the cops. I can't remember how I ended up seeing this video clip, but I'll never forget it. A young woman was in a bathrobe and pyjamas, seated in a wheelchair.

She was in a room with yellow ceramic tile walls. As she begged for her life, an unseen man shot her in the head with a handgun. I replayed that damn video over and over looking for the camera trick, because my brain kept saying it was fake. Well exactly how do you fake an exploding head and brains all over the wall? I really wanted to call the cops, but as I see from your experience, it wouldn't have done any good.

I saw this back in '98. Does this qualify as a "snuff film"? She was wearing a baby blue bathrobe.

[Long Cut]

Frankly, you have to take Internet stuff like that with a grain of salt. Modern makeup effects are pretty sophisticated, and most anything can be successfully faked.

I believe I know the one you're talking about. To the best of my recollection, it was, in fact, fake.

The technique is to use an "exploding" bag of "blood" and other materials attached to the back of the head, and a squib of "blood" on the front, normally covered by fake skin and/or hair. Sometimes, the gun fires a small blob of fake blood as well, to simulate the "hit". Quick editing and clever lighting completes the illusion.

It's probably fair to say that such things would be investigated to the nth degree by the FBI.

Witness the famous "bathroom suicide" in the movie Full Metal Jacket. It LOOKS completely real.

[backtothestreets]

I found the horrific site I saw while trying to get travel information via a newsgroup. If anything even remotely positive was gained from my experience it is a greater awareness some very sick folks are present in our free society, and that I should not always depend on authorities to do that which is right.