He had followers who actually went to some effort to make sure the images were spread. WTAF?
"Gorehounds". Yep, there's a word for it. Oddly, possessing and circulating snuff appears not to be illegal in the way that images of child abuse is. I suppose the difficulty is in policing it - because it's legal for actors to depict murder on film, any snuff consumer could just say they thought it wasn't real.