Netflix documentary about twisted killer disturbs fans on social media

A new Netflix documentary series about a sick killer who posted videos of his crimes online has mortified fans. Warning: Graphic

Warning: Graphic

A new documentary series on Netflix has left viewers shaken by the inhumane, murderous behaviour and its graphic nature.

The three-part series Don’t F**k With Cats, which debuted Wednesday, chronicles the story of amateur sleuths who hunted an internet killer named Luka Magnotta, a Canadian man who was captured in 2012 in Berlin after a worldwide manhunt.

Magnotta had murdered Chinese student Lin Jun with an ice pick, dismembered his body, engaged in acts of necrophilia and reportedly ate parts of his corpse. He filmed an 11 minute video of the crime and uploaded it online titling it, “1 lunatic, 1 ice pick”. He then sent a hand and a foot to Canadian political offices.

Luka Magnotta is the subject of a Netflix documentary. Picture: AP/Montreal Police Service via The Canadian Press

But what seemed to really outrage viewers — and is a nod to the documentary’s title — are videos made by Magnotta and posted online in 2010 of him killing and torturing cats, which were in part shown in the series.

One video, titled “1 boy 2 kittens,” depicts him killing kittens by putting them in plastic bags and suffocating them by sucking out the air using a vacuum cleaner; another shows him feeding other kittens to a python.

Netflix viewers took to Twitter to describe the series as “brutal.”

‘Don’t f**k with cats’ - not recommended if you suffer from any kind of anxiety, the documentary is literally one of the most twisted things I’ve seen in a very long time.

— Elliott (@DarkoEB) December 19, 2019

WHO HERE HAS WATCHED DON’T F**K WITH CATS ON NETFLIX OH MY GOD I AM SHOOK TO MY VERY CORE.

— Amanda (@Amander007) December 18, 2019

I have a pretty strong stomach for True Crime stories. Hell, I spent a huge portion of my law career investigating homicides & going to crime scenes. But I CANNOT. HANDLE. THIS. 🙀

— Michelle Kaszuba (@MKazColdCase) December 19, 2019

Literally the most insane documentary I’ve ever seen in my LIFE. I need someone to watch this ASAP so I can discuss #DontFWithCats pic.twitter.com/E7Dnc4BiDI

— Aisling Nic Mhanais 🌻 (@Aisliiing) December 18, 2019

Another tweeter said to avoid seeing the program if you’re “triggered” by animal abuse, adding: “Didn’t realize (sic) what kind of show it was so I played a trailer — turned it off after few seconds and started crying.” And yet another viewer offered that “some of those images are going to take a long time to leave my head.”

Other viewers were disturbed that portions of the animal abuse videos were shown at all in the film.

“I’m kind of angry at Netflix for using real footage of the kittens killed by that motherf***er,” posted Twitter user @SilenceSaturne. “It was so unnecessary.”

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An image from a video uploaded on YouTube of Luka Rocco Magnotta. Picture: AFP/YouTube

Another person said they “had instant regrets” when they started watching. “It just took me 17 minutes to come to the complete realization (sic) and just … stop,” @rocketslifting posted.

One Twitter commenter had a vengeful reaction to the cat killer, saying the documentary is “genuinely the most f**ked up thing I’ve ever watched. Would happily slowly torture this guy til I’m satisfied he’s suffered enough like the cats he killed.”

To that end, Magnotta, now 37, was sentenced to life in prison in 2014. Three years later, he got engaged to a fellow inmate he met on a dating website for prisoners and got married the same year.

This story originally appeared on the New York Post and has been reproduced here with permission