Perhaps German director Tom (Perfume) Tykwer will get down and dirty? Or maybe it’ll be that appalling Bavarian hack Uwe Boll who’ll get his hands on it. There have been a couple of German films made already, based on the events, but nothing of any real impact. Almost immediately after Armin’s lawyer told him publishers were already fighting for the rights to his life story, and a bidding war had broken out over the film rights as well.
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So Armin got eight years, with a chance of walking free in four years if he is a good boy in prison. (I might be a gorehound, a terrorfreak, a horrorphile, but I pity the poor souls in the courtroom who were forced to witness Armin’s video footage of Bernd’s slaughter.) But the prosecuting attorneys were set on murder of the first degree with a minimum of 15 years.
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This brings me to Armin Meiwes' subsequent trial and sentencing in January 2004 where the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, much to the horror and disbelief of most of Germany (and the rest of the world).Īrmin Meiwes’ defense was claiming “killing on demand” (similar to euthanasia) that Bernd Brandes had wanted to die and be eaten. The frightened young man contacted police, whom quickly identified Armin, went to his house with a search warrant and found substantial evidence from several thousand images of torture and deviant porn on his computers to the elaborate death chamber upstairs. A curious student dabbling in one of the cannibal chat rooms started a communiqué with Armin which eventually freaked the student out when he realized Armin was quite serious in his taste for human flesh. But what he was looking forward to most would be the eating and ingesting of Bernd, slowly and surely, which is exactly what he did over the next 18 months. He had videotaped the entire butchery so that he could watch it all again for his own discrete pleasure.
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He went on to skin the body, gutting the carcass, then removing the legs and arms. Then he hung Bernd from meat hooks in what is known in cannibal circles as the Gein Configuration and proceeded to butcher him first he bled the body, then he severed the head by slicing away the neck muscle and twisting the head off where the spinal cord met the skull. At 4am Armin ended Bernd’s life, plunging the kitchen knife repeatedly into Bernd’s throat as he lay naked and prone on the makeshift slaughtering table. It took eight hours for Bernd to slip into a coma. As Bernd had stated to Armin early on, “There is absolutely no way back now, only forwards, through your teeth”. They had made a contract with each other. They returned upstairs and Armin assisted Bernd into the bathtub where he proceeded to lose blood at a rapid rate. Yet Armin was thinking more of Bernd’s rump steaks and thigh fillets. But the penis proved too chewy for impatient Bernd and then it burnt in the pan not the succulent and tender piece of flesh Bernd had hoped it would be. After applying a diaper-like bandage to Bernd’s profusely bleeding penile stump the two men rushed downstairs to the kitchen and hurriedly tried to fry Bernd’s severed member. Armin took a kitchen knife and chopped off Bernd’s erect penis (but only after several agonising blows). They indulged fleetingly in normal sexual activity, but there was something much more important on their menu.Įventually, after Bernd had consumed many sleeping pills and glasses of Schnapps, the two men prepared to cannibalize. Armin took Bernd upstairs to his custom built slaughter room. It was carnality taken to utter hardcore extreme.Īrmin met Bernd at the train station and took him back to his dilapidated farmhouse where he had lived with his overbearing mother all his life until she died.
They were sexual fantasies, but rather than fellatio and intercourse they were about devouring and being devoured. Both men were deeply disturbed individuals who had been having these fantasies since they were pubescent boys. Armin wanted desperately to satisfy his own craving for cooked human flesh. All of these whom Armin contacted directly through email never followed through with actually meeting Armin in person … except one Bernd Juergen Brandes.īernd had a deep-rooted desire to be eaten by another human being.
Over two-hundred of these offered themselves up for his consumption. “Looking for a well-built man, 18-30 years old, for slaughter” read the ad. In 2001 Armin Meiwes, a polite and unassuming German native in his early 40s, placed an ad in an internet chat room catering to cannibals, modern cannibals that is (and apparently there’s a disturbingly large underworld of these sociopathic individuals). What is your opinion on this TRUE story of Armin Meiwes (read the whole thing)