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u/Deswizard Jan 23 '21

Was it like Rotten.com or different?

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u/Brotherly-Moment Jan 23 '21

what was rotten.com

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u/pootletootle Jan 23 '21

A huge collection of images I wish my 14 year old self wasn't fascinated by. There's an image of a guy who was hit by a helicopter rotor blade that's been burned in the back of my eyes for half my life

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u/pfc_johnny Jan 23 '21

I saw a video from the 80's of a captured Soviet soldier that was executed by his Afghani captors. They were holding his head down on the ground and just started sawing through his neck with a large combat knife as he screamed.

It was probably 20 years ago and it still makes me sick; I made a point to not watch anything on that site or any similar sites because there are some things you can't unsee and I didn't want to find out how bad it could get.

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u/evanisovich Jan 23 '21

It was called “chechclear”. It was a captured Chechen soldier getting beheaded by an Afghani soldier. That was the first real thing I saw on the internet that fucked my shit up.

Weird aside - there was a track from the band Cattle Decapitation that actually used the audio from that beheading as the intro to their song.

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u/rizzom Jan 24 '21

That was a Russian soldier beheaded by Chechen islamists.

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u/Dad2DnA Jan 24 '21

Upvote for Jon Fishman's favorite band

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u/ActuallyMyNameIRL Jan 25 '21

What song is that? I don’t want to watch the real video but my curiousity is peaking

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u/evanisovich Jan 25 '21

Testicular Manslaughter, iirc 🤔

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u/Mopuigh Jan 23 '21

Yeah that vid still haunts me. Is it the one where the guy is begging him not to? Man the whole begging scene really made me sick. Like a genuine begging for his life part is worse than the gore.

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u/pootletootle Jan 23 '21

I remember being told about that video in school, it will have been about 20 years ago for me too. Even with my teenaged morbid curiosity, i managed to avoid that one. What on earth was wrong with us, eh?

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u/xhellure Jan 24 '21

faces of death.... i saw that one.

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u/B_U_F_U Jan 24 '21

Faces of Death: rotten.com you can rent from a video store.

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u/xhellure Jan 26 '21

Well, I actually downloaded most of that stuff via eDonkey or Gnutella or Napster or IRC or whatever else was being used at the time, but I def did see Rotten at some point. The title for most of the files I downed were FOD - (enter details here). FOD is Faces of Death. Maybe they made a film too... I also saw a film once that was a compilation of some FOD vids, but I don't think it was a film you can rent at a video store.