8 Horror Movies So Disturbing That Audiences Thought They Were Snuff Films
From “Cannibal Holocaust” to “The Blair Witch Project,” these movies were so extreme that countless people thought the onscreen carnage was real. Roger Ebert once described movies as “ the most powerful empathy simple machine in all the liberal arts . ” The late cinema critic certainly had a point , as films bring people together to relate to simulated experiences not their own . It ’s also why audiences of extremist - realistic gore in horror movies demand to know they ’re bogus , and not real sniff films — or , veridical - life footage of a execution deliberately carried out on television camera ....